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By Richard Thomas Rating: B- One of the things I like to warn folks about is just because someone has a blog does not mean she knows what she’s blogging about. Even some who work as journalists and produce paid work for mainstream publications sometimes have a depressing inability to separate their opinions from fact or distinguish what they actually ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: B In the vast expansion of American craft distilling, there is a tremendous consistency in one regard: passion. For quite some time, I would speak of craft distillers, whiskey-makers in particular, as a sparse group, because whiskey is time-consuming, laborious and expensive to produce. Not so these days, as more men and women are happily indulging ...

Corrected February 8, 2022 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Balcones is one of the most prominent names in the American craft whiskey scene. A trailblazer in micro-distilling from a state that would become a perennial contender for America’s third whiskey state (after Kentucky and Tennessee). They started distilling in 2009, and although Garrison Brothers started production first, Balcones beat them ...

Chicken Cock is coming out with a new middle aged release, Chicken Cock 10 Year Old Double Barrel Bourbon. Master Distiller and 40+ year veteran Gregg Snyder of Grain & Barrel selected twelve barrels of 10 year old bourbon, marrying two barrels at a time to create a perfectly balanced, extremely smooth, small batch bourbon. So, in this instance the ...

Distillery 291 is releasing 291 Bad Guy Colorado Bourbon Whiskey, Batch #4 on October 13.  The first batch of Bad Guy Bourbon was made available to the public in 2013, and its periodic release has been an anticipated event every year since then. Batch #4 of Bad Guy Bourbon is 121.2 proof with a mash bill of yellow corn, malted ...