Old Forester will release the 20th iteration of its limited edition, vintage-dated Birthday Bourbon on Wednesday, Sept. 2 in celebration of founder George Garvin Brown’s birthday. This year marks the 150th year of the company he began in 1870. George Garvin Brown was a pharmaceutical salesman and became the first to seal his whiskey, Old Forester, in a glass bottle ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Every year since 2014, that fabled and peaty Scottish island of Islay has seen Ardbeg Day sometime at the end of May or beginning of June. Usually a festival held at the distillery, this year it was a virtual celebration due to the pandemic. However, Ardbeg Day was still marked by the release of The ...

Cask 88, the independent bottler, has made their third release in the Scottish Folklore series with a bottling of 19 year old Laphroaig. Dubbed “Queen of Winter,” this single cask, middle aged Islay malt is bottled at cask strength, and in a limited run of approximately 250 bottles. The release follows previous bottlings of a 22 year old Arran and ...

By Paer Johansson Rating: B+ All right, so we have all heard of and experienced that different factors affect the taste of whisky such as the fermentation time, the type of yeast used, the length of the middle-cut and of course the cask the whisky is matured in. We also know that different casks can attribute different flavors to the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A The annual Redbreast Dream Cask has become the regular chimera for fans of the Irish single pot still whiskey revival. Every year, Irish Distillers release this ultra-aged limited edition, putting a different spin on it in terms of cask stock or secondary maturation. The production run is always quite small, it’s done in 500 ml ...