The Bardstown Bourbon Company will release three new products as part of its Collaborative Series, including two bourbons aged in brandy barrels from Copper & Kings American Brandy Company, as well as a bourbon finished in beer barrels from Goodwood Brewing Company. All products will be available Tuesday, October 1 in select markets.  The latest collaboration between Bardstown Bourbon Company and Copper & ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B WhistlePig is now three years into their transition from relying on sourced rye whiskey (from Indiana and Alberta, Canada) to in-house production, and the standard bearer of that transition is Farmstock. The company started some 11 years ago, using imported Alberta-made 100% rye whiskey selected by the late, great Dave Pickerell, but the distillery in ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Michter’s released their Toasted Barrel Sour Mash Whiskey this month, completing a series of double new oak barrel aged whiskeys in irregular and limited edition release. Their popular Toasted Barrel Bourbon was followed in 2017 by a limited edition release that gave their rye whiskey a double new oak barrel treatment. Now the Sour Mash ...

Kentucky Owl has announced the launch of its newest release, Bourbon #9. This is master blender Dixon Dedman’s highest-proof batch to-date at 127.6-proof and 63.8% alcohol-by-volume. This release is made with four different distillates from four different mash bills, including a 15-year old, two different lots of 14-year old, a 12-year old, a seven-year old and a six-year old distillate. Dedman claims, ...

Mackmyra is now presenting a seasonal whisky with a port finish, Vintersol (Winter Sun); the release is a collaboration with Quinta Do Vallado, one of the oldest and most reputable port producers in the Portuguese Douro Valley. Vintersol has been 50 per cent finished for 16 months in Swedish oak casks that previously held port. With the port setting the ...