By Richard Thomas Last year, I took the traditional pairings approach to producing a Thanksgiving guide, and that approach is still a perfectly valid way to go about serving whiskey with your holiday feast. The thing there, though, is that such an approach is categorical, making recommendations for different stages of the feast: aperitif, pairing with the meal, dessert whiskey, ...

In The Midst Of The Bourbon Boom And The Rye Revival, All Eyes Are On American Malts As “The Next Big Thing.” What Happened To Wheat Whiskey? By Richard Thomas When Heaven Hill introduced Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey in 2005, I first took note of it during a visit to My Old Kentucky Home, and the novelty immediately caught my ...

By Richard Thomas Rating:B+ Tullamore Dew 10 Year Old Single Malt was a particular favorite of mine, one of my favorite Irish Whiskeys in fact. Part of what made it so special was that the whiskey was a four wood, drawn from malt whiskey stock aged in ex-bourbon, Port, Sherry and Madeira casks. It’s not a combination often seen (indeed, ...

By Richard Thomas As the Bourbon Boom has driven a parallel rise in bourbon tourism, the city of Louisville has begun to put some substance into its claim as the world’s bourbon capital. Many bourbon tourists enter Kentucky by either driving or flying to the Derby City, so it was only logical that the city itself would evolve from a ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ This is our first time writing up an Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, marking their September 2nd anniversary, but this is as good a time as any to start. This year, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the limited edition expression. Old Forester Birthday Bourbons are drawn from stock distilled on the same day. For 2016’s ...