Updated April 14, 2019 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Produced by Seattle’s OOLA Distillery, Discourse C is paradoxically the first release in the series. I write that because when I first saw it, I assumed it was the third; “C” after all. The purpose of the series is to start a dialogue, as much between drinkers as between the distillery ...
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KOVAL Four Grain Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B KOVAL Four Grain Single Barrel Whiskey has no lead grain (i.e. no grain at 51% or higher in the mash bill). In fact, we don’t know what the exact grain recipe is, except to say it’s malted barley, oats, rye and wheat. Like everything KOVAL does, it’s a single barrel, bottled at 94 proof and ...
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By Richard Thomas Rating: B- OOLA is a stylishly designed micro-distillery located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, started in 2010 by an artist and art dealer named Kirby Kallas-Lewis. Their Waitsburg Bourbon started out as a blend of sourced and in-house whiskeys, but nowadays it’s all in-house. It’s a wheated bourbon, aged for five years in standard, 53-gallon barrels. The ...
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By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Double barrel aging, or maturing whiskey in two rounds of new white oak, has become very much a thing in American Whiskey. I like to think of it as distinct from “finishing,” because the point isn’t to derive flavors from outside the traditional profiles of American Whiskey by reaching for Port pipes and Sherry casks. ...
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By Randall H. Borkus Rating: C On May 9, 2018, MGP Ingredients announced the launch of Rossville Union Rye Whiskey label. Named after the original distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Rossville Union represents a historic return to the home of crafted rye whiskey and is meant to honor a spirited tradition dating back more than 170 years in America’s original “Whiskey ...
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