Category: Opinion

Craft Distilling Sitting On A Ticking Timebomb?

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The Silver Trail Fire Raises Questions Of Equipment And Training Quality By Richard Thomas While at Scotland’s Spirit of Speyside whisky festival earlier this month, I had the opportunity to visit Strathisla, billed as Scotland’s oldest distillery. It certainly looked the part, roughly the same size as some of America’s bigger craft distilleries and with… Continue reading Craft Distilling Sitting On A Ticking Timebomb?

Jack Daniel’s Was A Friend Of Mine

Separating Fact From The Legend Of Jack Daniel By Father John Rayls A part of Toby Keith’s “Hit It” song goes: C’mon There’s a gentleman down in Lynchburg On the south side of Tennessee. He started cookin’ that homemade whiskey Had his own little recipe. Now his name’s on a million labels And you can… Continue reading Jack Daniel’s Was A Friend Of Mine

Bad Whiskey Writing, Piled Higher And Deeper

By Richard Thomas Excoriable whiskey writing piles up fairly quickly in The Whiskey Reviewer’s files, and for our sixth installment of this series on subpar coverage the first example is also a very recent one: the Wall Street Journal’s article from last Tuesday about the barrel shortage. The story itself wasn’t bad on a factual level,… Continue reading Bad Whiskey Writing, Piled Higher And Deeper