By Emma Briones Rating: B- There is a new whisky in Compass Box’s core range. It is called The Story of The Spaniard and, you guessed right, it has a Spanish accent. This new whisky was born from John Glaser’s experience in Spain a long time ago, when the Compass Box founder and whisky-maker traveled around the south of Spain, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Introduced in 2017, Stranahan’s Sherry Cask is the latest offering in regular release from the Colorado distillery, and they didn’t spare the flub-dubs in making it. They started with their four year old single malt and gave it a finish in properly seasoned (four decades) Oloroso Sherry butts. None of that “Sherry casks made for ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B George Remus Bourbon brand, named after the legendary “King of the Bootleggers,” is crafted by MGP Ingredients in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in its 170-year-old distillery. This particular expression debuted in 2017, and was as the first of two products released under the Remus label after MGP acquired it so as to have their own whiskey ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- The stablemate to 291’s bourbon, their rye is made from 61% malted rye and 39% corn mash before being aged for less than two years in 10-gallon barrels. This whiskey also uses the distillery’s “El Paso County Process,” which is to add stillage from an IPA to the mash, and finished using staves of toasted ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Brimstone builds on Balcones’s inaugural effort, Baby Blue. One of the earliest hits of the craft whiskey scene, Baby Blue’s major innovation was being a corn whiskey made entirely from Hopi blue corn. Taking the same distillate, the distillery then smokes it with Texas scrub oak. The usual process for smoking whiskeys is to smoke ...