By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ “Apple Pie” is one of those classic concoctions meant to make moonshine more palatable to all comers, and less of an acquired taste. The idea is simple. You use apple juice or cider (cider is best) and pie spices, especially cinnamon, to both cut down and flavor your liquor. Some people like it warmed, as ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Western Kentucky has a fun bit of wordplay: Bourbon County is dry, while their own Christian County is wet. Soaking wet, as it happens. Located on the east side of the Land Between The Lakes, where the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers flow parallel towards the Ohio, this region was once a riverine hotbed of illicit ...

The Surge Of Flavored Whiskey Shows Signs Of Slowing Down. Is The Fireball Fad Over? By Richard Thomas Although many whiskey fans dearly wish to ignore it, a big part of the whiskey boom in America has been the tsunami of popularity behind flavored whiskey. Led by Fireball, a cinnamon-flavored whiskey, the category grew by 28% in 2015. That is ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: B- Another flavored whiskey which I’m pleased to lure spirits lovers into Whiskeydom is Hochstadter’s Slow & Low Rock and Rye 100 proof, a limited release made with 8 year straight rye whiskey. The Cooper Spirits Co. has revived a flavorful drink which hails as far back as the early 1800’s, when it was common to ...

By Richard Thomas Tennessee is not just the Volunteer State, but also America’s second whiskey state. Kentucky’s sister state was one of the survivors of Prohibition and the 1970s whiskey slump, making Jack Daniels, George Dickel and the Lincoln County Process (LCP) fixtures in the story of modern American whiskey. Yet the very fact that for decades it was just ...