By Richard Thomas St. Patrick’s Day 2021 is just a week away, and with the pandemic still raging one can’t recommend hitting an Irish pub and draining (a few) pints of green beer. Perhaps the best thing to do, should it be sunny, is take a flask of Irish whiskey out to enjoy the crisp air and the coming of ...

Some Brief Words About Brett Ferencz, aka The Scotch Trooper By Kurt Maitland We just lost quite a figure in the whisk(e)y community. He was not a blender, distiller or brand owner. He was just a person that melded his three great passions — Star Wars, whiskies and let’s not forget his photography — into something that could be enjoyed ...

How The Wild Turkey Whiskeys Stack Against Each Other By Richard Thomas Wild Turkey is one of the Kentucky Majors, with a legion of diehard fans (including our own April Manning), and it seems to me that every fan of “The Bird” has his or her own favorite expression. Some swear by that bang-for-your-buck classic of Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon, ...

By Richard Thomas I wouldn’t say country music and whiskey are synonymous, not even in the popular imagination. In my reckoning, beer gets mentioned as much, if not more, but it’s not hard to see where the notion that the song and the drink are bound together. So, when I got a chance to have a chat with Texas-born Hudson ...

By Richard Thomas It’s been four years since The Whiskey Reviewer tackled the subject of the best budget bottles of bourbon, and seeing as how we’re 10 months into a world of pandemic culture that has seen tight household budgets and increased drinking, now looks like a good time to revisit this subject. Yes, vaccines are making the rounds and the light ...