Tag Archives: Corn Whiskey

Flaviar Contributes To Growing American Craft Blend Sector

Corn Trooper 2020 United Craft Bourbon, an all-American blend that showcases unity, collaboration, and strength by uniting seven craft bourbons from seven different U.S. states into one tasty blended bourbon. Instead of taking on the competition, with Corn Trooper 2020 United Craft Bourbon, Flaviar has brought the competition together. Grisa Soba, co-founder of Flaviar and master blender of Corn Trooper, ...

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Lost Lantern Ventures Into Crafty Single Casks

Lost Lantern, a new independent bottler of American whiskey, is excited to announce the addition of four hand-selected single casks to their initial release lineup. These highly limited, one-of-a-kind single casks consist of unique and deeply expressive whiskies produced by some of the finest distilleries in the United States. “We wanted our first round of single casks to encourage whiskey ...

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Abasolo Mexican Corn Whiskey Review

Abasolo Mexican Whiskey

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Ever since Balcones broke certain barriers in 2009 by making a corn whiskey with blue corn, both accelerating the trend for small distillers to reach for novel grains and asserting a Tex-Mex whiskey style for the first time, I’ve been waiting for some serious work to be done in making whiskeys with heirloom Mexican corn. ...

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The First All-Mexican Corn Whiskey Hits Shelves

Craft whiskey has brought us whiskeys made from blue and red, Bloody Butcher corn, but Mexico is awash with hundreds of varieties of corn. Some of which have been cultivated for centuries, all of which represent the region’s biological and cultural history. Today, Abasolo Ancestral Corn Whisky is proud to pay homage to this heritage with the launch of their ...

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Balcones True Blue 100 Corn Whiskey Review

True Blue 100

By Andrew Graham Grade: B+ Balcones is a Texas distillery whose expressions The Whiskey Reviewer has covered extensively, because they are consistently solid and the distillery’s methods are unique. Balcones uses 100% Hopi blue corn for some of its signature expressions, and they age their corn whiskeys in used 5-gallon barrels. Editor Richard Thomas reviewed its inaugural expression, Baby Blue, ...

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