Old Forester will introduce Old Forester Kentucky Straight Rye Whisky, the distillery’s first new grain recipe in nearly 150 years. Old Forester Rye will be available nationwide beginning February 1. “Our signature bourbon recipe has done this brand proud through Prohibition, World Wars and changing consumer palates,” said Campbell Brown, Old Forester President and great-great grandson of founder George Garvin ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- It’s been little more than a year since the James E. Pepper brand came home to it’s a new distillery in its old building in downtown Lexington, so it will be some years before their sourced whiskeys are replaced with their own stuff. Even so, that does not mean that the brand doesn’t have some ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Double barrel aging, or maturing whiskey in two rounds of new white oak, has become very much a thing in American Whiskey. I like to think of it as distinct from “finishing,” because the point isn’t to derive flavors from outside the traditional profiles of American Whiskey by reaching for Port pipes and Sherry casks. ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: C On May 9, 2018, MGP Ingredients announced the launch of Rossville Union Rye Whiskey label. Named after the original distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Rossville Union represents a historic return to the home of crafted rye whiskey and is meant to honor a spirited tradition dating back more than 170 years in America’s original “Whiskey ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ You might expect Sonoma’s Cherrywood-Smoked Rye to be a variant on their house rye whiskey, but it’s actually a different animal. The flagship rye is a 100% rye that gets a finish in ex-bourbon barrels. This is a wheated and smoked rye whiskey; the mash bill is 80% rye, 10% cherrywood smoked and malted barley, ...