For the first time since April 2019, the Louisville based distiller will be releasing its Michter’s Barrel Strength Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey on a national and international basis this March. Michter’s President Joseph J. Magliocco commented, “Our team has been turning out some wonderful Kentucky style ryes over the years, and this 2021 release continues that trend.”  Master Distiller Dan ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Towards the end of last year, I was invited to participate in a virtual unveiling of the 2020 Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Special Release Rye. My parcel of samples didn’t arrive in time for me to participate in the tasting, guided by newly minted Master Distiller Chris Fletcher, but I sat in anyway and caught ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: A- Let’s start 2021 off with something kind of crazy: a 15 year old single barrel American whiskey that’s bottled at 141.8 proof. The folks behind Jacob’s Pardon, Palm Bay International, bring some history to the table. The duo behind the brand, president and CEO Marc Taub and his son, Jake, are a couple generations removed ...

By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor I handed out a personal record of six A grades in 2020, but not a single A+, which makes both Best New Whiskey and Best To Pass My Lips hard calls to make. Frankly, my choices are easily interchangeable. Both were wonderful and both were released during 2020. Just a hair behind the two ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- When I lifted the straps securing the heavy case to the pedestal — yes, that is the kind of packaging the bottle had — I found myself thinking “wow, it really has been seven years with Boss Hog?” Yet our deputy editor Kurt Maitland reviewed the first installment back in 2013, that originator being a ...