Tag Archives: Small Batch

Best Irish Whiskeys For Under $60

Redbreast 12YO

The Top 5 In Ireland’s Premium, But Affordable Whiskeys By Richard Thomas One of the minor paradoxes of whiskey is how a given sector might have dozens, perhaps hundreds of premium expressions on the market, but the overwhelming bulk of what gets made and sold is concentrated in a small handful of names on the mass market end of the ...

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Seven Sherry Bomb Scotch Whiskies

Aberlour A'Bunadh

By Richard Thomas Although the overwhelming bulk of Scotch whisky is aged in used American Standard Barrels (ASBs), the most prized cask for maturing whisky is the Sherry butt. Whiskies aged in first-fill Sherry butts are especially so, and those drawn entirely from such sherried stock are invariably known as “sherry bombs” for the potent flavors the malt whisky has ...

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Ranger Creek Releases .36 Texas Bourbon

As part of National Bourbon Heritage Month, Ranger Creek is announcing the November release of a special collector’s item bourbon called .36 Texas Bourbon.  Only 1,000 bottles of this collector’s item release will be available. .36 Texas Bourbon is Ranger Creek’s everyday straight bourbon and will be a year-round release starting in April of 2017.  It was aged for a ...

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Booker’s Bluegill Creek Bourbon Review

Booker's Bluegill Creek Bourbon

Updated June 30, 2017 By Debbie Shocair Average Rating: B+ I hold tremendous respect for the Beam family and for Booker’s Bourbon, the unfiltered and uncut expression of the Beam Small Batch Collection inaugurated twenty years ago. Booker’s has changed over that time, and now comes in discrete batches. Fred Noe, 7th generation master distiller for Beam, has selected Booker’s ...

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