By Richard Thomas Rating C+ Most distilleries have a bar attached these days. Brewstilleries are a small, but growing part of the American craft whiskey scene. Only a few have a restaurant attached. Portland’s Liquid Riot makes spirits and beer, sells them over the bar and serves food, all under the same roof. I can count the number of folks ...
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Elwood Single Malt Whiskey Review
By Emily Mullis Rating: B+ Elwood Distilling Company is a small spirits-maker in Boulder, Colorado. They only have one whiskey, their single malt, but a lot of hard work goes into crafting it. Four kinds of malted barely are used in the distilling process, and the mash from that is distilled twice. To finish, toasted cherry wood staves are added ...
Read More »Balcones Pot Still Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B To help inaugurate their imported, Forsyths pot stills, Balcones has released a Pot Still Bourbon. Those gleaming, Scots-made copper pots are the centerpiece of the new Balcones distillery in Waco, Texas, but the mash bill behind the bourbon is very much in keeping with Balcones’ own style and Lone Star roots. They went for a ...
Read More »Glen Moray Fired Oak Scotch Review
By Paer Johansson Rating: C+ Glen Moray is a progressive Speyside distillery, found just outside the Scottish town of Elgin. It has an impressive range of whisky, from the Iglen classic series matured in different casks to the Eglin Reserve and the exclusive Glen Moray Mastery. The newest edition to their standard range is called “Fired Oak,” and is a ...
Read More »Old Forester Signature (100 Proof) Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B I don’t actually know anyone other than myself who ever refers to Old Forester Signature by that name, and I only do so in a formal context. The word “Signature” doesn’t appear on the bottle, and the name refers to the signature of Brown-Forman founder George Garvin Brown. More commonly, the two basic Old Forester ...
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