By Richard Thomas Rating: B While I know it has been many years since Jack Daniel’s made their initial foray into rye whiskey, it sometimes seems like it was only the other day when Jack Daniel’s released their rye counterpart to Old No. 7. In reality, that was also several years ago, six and a half to be exact. This ...
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Tempus Fugit Cocktail Cherries Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Fugit inreparabile tempus. I’m a classics nerd, so I’m familiar with the origins of the phase tempus fugit, coming from the works of the Roman poet Virgil. It means “time flies,” and is an admonition against procrastination. The phrase has also become the namesake for a micro-distillery, Tempus Fugit Spirits, which is centered on reproducing ...
Read More »Old Elk Rum Cask Finish Rye Whiskey Review
By Douglas Fraser Rating: B Old Elk has a distillery in Fort Collins, Colorado, but at present much of their output is contract produced or sourced through MGP in Indiana. Working with Greg Metze, the former master distiller at MGP and current master distiller at Old Elk, the company arranged to produce their own made-to-order whiskeys through MGP, rather than ...
Read More »Basil Hayden Malted Rye Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Each member of the seminal Jim Beam Small Batch Collection is now the center of its own brand line-up, and three of the four have had rye whiskeys either as limited editions or regular extensions. But of those three, I think the most appropriate to have rye whiskey attached to its brand name is Basil ...
Read More »Nelson’s Green Brier Adds Rye To Repertoire
Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery is best known as the distillery that revived wheated Tennessee Whiskey, but for their latest release, they have gone in an entirely different direction: rye whiskey. “We could not be more thrilled to finally release a rye whiskey to a national audience for the first time since Prohibition!” said Nelson. “We’ve always had a mind to reconstruct Charles ...
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