By Emily Mullis Rating: B Honoring a time when the now well-known whiskey distilleries were just getting started, Lux Row Distillers has crafted a unique blend of whiskeys inspired by (and are thus named after) Daviess Country Distilling Company. Dating all the way back to 1874, long before the sour days of prohibition, Daviess Country laid down a foundation for ...

By Douglas Fraser Rating: B- Hotaling & Co., an importer and the distiller behind Old Potrero out of San Francisco, is also the owner of Hirsch Selected Whiskies. Hirsch has been a famous name ever since Chuck Cowdery wrote a short book labeling their 16 year old bourbon the best whiskey “you’ll never taste,” which was made at the shuttered ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Corsair Distillery has changed quite a bit since its founding, with the most striking and important part of that evolution being how the distillery first opened its doors in 2008 in Bowling Green, Kentucky; gradually shifted its focus south to Nashville; and finally abandoned its foothold in Kentucky in 2018, becoming an entirely Tennessee operation. ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B+ Ardbeg has added a new expression to its core lineup: Wee Beastie, a phrase that seems like it should mean something specific, but I have no clue what. * With an age statement of five years, Ardbeg is successfully threading the needle with Wee Beastie. Nobody is going to boast about drinking a five year ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B- Based 10 miles east of Great Salt Lake in Utah, Ogden’s Own Distillery is perhaps best known in their region for its portfolio of Porter’s flavored whiskies. It also makes vodka and gin, and it now sells a rye, which is sourced from MGP in Indiana. Porter’s Small Batch Rye uses the popular MGP rye ...