By Richard Thomas Rating: B When I proposed doing an interview to Hamilton Distillers co-founder Stephen Paul a few months ago, he mentioned that his whiskeys had evolved quite a bit from when The Whiskey Reviewer initially covered them in 2015. That is sometimes the case with small distillers who have been around for several years or longer; why produce a ...

By Douglas Fraser Grade: B- Boann Distillery offers a wide range of Irish whiskeys, and is part of modern revival of the Irish whiskey industry. The distillery often experiments with an arrange of cask finishes which creates many different expressions that Boann offers. From single malts and single grains to blends and those different cask finishes mentioned above, Boann does ...

By Douglas Fraser Rating: C+ Ireland is currently reinvigorating its whiskey industry and Boann Distillery is part of Ireland’s 21st Century distilling boom. Boann Distillery, which is paired with a brewery, has released a classic “brewstilling” limited edition. Their sister brewery, Boyne, took old Sherry hogsheads and filled them with their imperial stout. That done, these Sherry-turned-stout hogsheads were then ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Malted rye in whiskey is not a novelty anymore. It’s modern use started with that example of craft whiskey before craft whiskey became a thing, Old Potrero, which was making 100% malted rye back in the 1990s. While not quite commonplace, the use of malted rye is widespread enough that one needn’t look very hard ...

By Alex Southgate Rating: B It’s always interesting to try different blends from the same distillery. Something as small as a different choice of cask type made from the same wood stock, such as a rebuilt bourbon barrel against a hogshead made from bourbon barrel staves, can make for an immensely different scotch. Equally, the end product is very much ...