By Richard Thomas No news sells like bad news, so it was a good news day for the doom-singers when Knob Creek dropped its age statement in 2016. They crowed “I told ya so,” and pointed even more forcefully to an ever grimmer future. But then an interesting thing happened. Earlier this year, Knob Creek brought back the 9 year ...

Don’t Believe The Haters, Because Craft Whiskey Hasn’t Sucked For A Long Time By Richard Thomas The meme “craft whiskey sucks” has been around for a decade now, and like most memes, it just plain refuses to die. Nevermind that much has changed since 2010 and there were plenty of examples of fine craft whiskey even back in the day ...

The Bourbon Shortage Was Never Real, And Here Is Why By Richard Thomas Just a few years ago, the word in bourbon circles was you’d better horde the good stuff now, because we were in the midst of a bourbon shortage. A scenario where increased demand would drain even the gigantic lake of bourbon sitting in Kentucky rickhouses was postulated ...

By Richard Thomas As an apostle to the “find what you like and drink that however you want it” school of whisk(e)y enthusiasm, I have little use for snobbery. In fact, if I call someone a snob of anything, I’m de facto labeling that person as a hater, not a lover; snobbery is the act of defining your love for ...

Comparing The Original, Kentucky-Only 6 Year Old Heaven Hill Bonded Bourbon To The New, 7 Year Old National Version By Richard Thomas When Heaven Hill announced it would discontinue its Kentucky-only, 6 Year Old Bottled in Bond (BiB) Bourbon in the summer of 2018, the howls were heard far outside the Bluegrass. The expression, esteemed as much for its modest ...