By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ The Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 was instituted to insure the public’s safety (and consolidate the position of big distillers vis-a-vis rectifiers, as bottlers were known then). Having the designation “bottled in bond” (BiB) on a whiskey label stood for quality, because it met the government guaranteed: The whiskey must have been produced at a ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Beam Suntory upped their game in the Knob Creek brand by extending its rye line. Earlier this year, they released a 115 proof single barrel version of that whiskey; now they have followed up on it by releasing a cask strength (119.6 proof), 9 year old rendition. Between the two, one would have a near ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: C- Two James Distillery was the first legal distillery in Detroit since the Prohibition era, opening in 2013 . It has been often said that the decline of the Motor City and the resulting cheap rents for large spaces has lured many creative folks to the city. The distillery founder Peter Bailey attributes the Detroit ...

Although rye whiskey once enjoyed great success in Pennsylvania through the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, the passage of the 18th Amendment and Prohibition terminated production for the entire state’s rye whiskey distilling business, which would never truly recover and eventually died in 1990. Fast forward 28 years to today, and rye whiskey distilling is ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: A Eureka, California, nestled in a truly unique area between ancient redwood forests and the Pacific Coast, is not the place that comes to mind when you think of fine American whiskey. Even so, right there in the seat of Humboldt county sits Humboldt Craft Spirits (HCS), the first and only licensed distillery headquartered in Eureka. ...