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Rogue Ales & Spirits and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, who have collaborated on various projects since 2003, continue their partnership with the release of a limited-edition Morimoto Single Malt Whiskey. This limited-edition whiskey started at the Rogue brewery in Newport, Oregon in 2016 as Morimoto Imperial Pilsner and Morimoto Black Obi Ale. After fermentation, the wash was transferred from the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Releases from Barrell Craft Spirits are periodic in nature, but we’ve been waiting more than a year for the coming of Barrell Rye Batch 003. This one is a whopper in its blending stock, though. They’ve drawn on sourcing in Indiana (of course), Poland (the novel source introduced with Batch 001), Tennessee and Canada. Given ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B This being Kentucky, our locals probably spawn more whiskey projects per capita than anywhere else in the world (and yes, I’m looking at you too, Scotland). An example is last summer, when Jason Brauner launched Buzzard’s Roost Rye. Brauner is the co-owner of Louisville’s Bourbons Bistro, and where this anywhere else one might expect a ...

By Richard Thomas If you google up the title of this article, what you will find is a clutch of articles regarding cognacs, brandies and armagnacs for bourbon drinkers. What you won’t find (at least not on the first two pages) is a piece that actually addresses the question posed: what bourbons should you use as gifts or gateways for ...

By Emily Mullis Rating: B On a mission to bring back that good ‘ol pre-Prohibition whiskey, Lux Row has created a new whiskey line thusly named after the county where it all began. As one of the earliest Kentucky distilleries (in the modern sense), Daviess County Distilling Company set the course for other distillers to follow, and was the biggest ...