Still Austin Whiskey Co. plans to release their first aged product, a bourbon whiskey, in Spring of 2019. The whiskey will feature 100% Texas-grown corn, rye and barley. The bourbon whiskey has been 100% milled, mashed, fermented, distilled and matured by hand, at the distillery, located in the heart of South Austin at 440 East Saint Elmo Road. “We take great pride ...
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Benromach Comes Out With 40 Year Old Single Cask
The Benromach Distillery Company is releasing an extremely rare and limited edition Scotch malt whisky matured for 40 years in a single Refill Sherry Hogshead cask. Building on the popularity of previous vintage releases from the 1970s, 184 bottles of Benromach 1978, from cask number 2608, are available for worldwide sale. The single cask, cask strength (56.3% ABV) whisky has ...
Read More »Old Charter Introduces A Limited Edition Bourbon Aged In Exotic Oak
The use of forest terroir and exotic, local tree species has become a growing part of modern whiskey-making, but Buffalo Trace Distillery began working about 15 years ago, resulting in a re-imagined whiskey brand called Old Charter Oak. Most bourbon whiskey is aged in oak from the American Ozarks, Appalachia or northern Alabama, but Buffalo Trace Distillery wondered if barrels ...
Read More »Basil Hayden Trots Out 10 Year Old For Christmas
Hitting shelves this month is a 10 Year Old version of Basil Hayden, the high rye, premium expression from Jim Beam. Like the basic expression, Basil Hayden 10 Year Old is bottled at a lighter 80 proof. The original Basil Hayden was an 8 year old bourbon, basically an older version of Old Granddad. That age statement was removed in ...
Read More »50 Year Old Caol Ila And More Coming From Gordon & MacPhail
Single malt Scotch whisky creator Gordon & MacPhail has released two new additions to its ‘Private Collection’ range: a 64-Years-Old single malt from Glenlivet Distillery and a landmark 50-Years-Old from Caol Ila Distillery, the oldest Caol Ila single malt ever released. The newly redesigned ‘Private Collection’ range encompasses rare and exclusive single malt whiskies from celebrated, little-known, or closed distilleries, ...
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