By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B+ Old Forester is one of Brown-Forman’s prized brands, perhaps moreso than it’s crown jewel, Jack Daniel’s. Company founder George Garvin Brown created Old Forester on Louisville, Kentucky’s famous whiskey row in 1870.  Old Forester 1897 Bottled in Bond is the second release in the Old Forester Whiskey Row Series, and has been crafted to ...

By Richard Thomas Solera aging jumped over from fortified wines in Southwestern Europe to whisky-making about 20 years ago, but it’s virtues have only been catching on recently. That slowness to spread was really only to be expected, though, since it was the boom in world whisky that has driven the adoption of new methods and the creation of new ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B I can recall more than a decade ago, when bourbon barrel-aged beer was an in-house fixture of just a few craft brewers, and the only one bottled and in distribution was Alltech’s Bourbon Barrel Ale. Now they are just about everywhere, and that includes Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis. Diddy Muckle is the bourbonized version ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B- Old Forester is arguably the longest running Bourbon brand on the market today which is over 145 years old, and entwined with the giant whiskey company Brown-Forman. George Garvin Brown created Old Forester on Louisville, KY’s famous whiskey row in 1870. To honor that milestone year in bourbon history, they crafted Old Forester 1870 ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The first installment of Booker’s this year honors Kathleen DiBenedetto, a protege of Booker Noe who is still with Beam today, after a tenure of more than a quarter-century. Shortly after starting work with Jim Beam, she became part of the team marketing the Jim Beam Small Batch Collection, of which Booker’s was a part. ...