By Douglas Fraser Grade: B+ Kinsey 4 Year Old Rye is the second of the three whiskies in the Kinsey box set I received for Christmas 2019 (I’ve also written up the 10 Year Old American Whiskey). Kinsey is a revived brand coming from New Liberty Distillery in Philadelphia, PA. The distillery pays homage to the original foundation along the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Whenever Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) releases a new cask-finished, collaborative bourbon, I await the sample eagerly in hopes it will be another Phifer Pavitt Reserve Bourbon, which was a lovely expression. The latest is their collaboration with Chateau de Laubade, a double first for BBCo in being both international and drawing on Armagnac casks. The ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B New Riff’s inaugural Backsetter release consists of two new spins on their staple whiskeys, their bonded bourbon and rye. That spin is the use of backset from the mash of an entirely separate, third whiskey, which was made with a mash of peated malted barley and rye. What makes all this so unorthodox is that ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B Tincup is a Colorado-based whiskey brand that brought its newest expression, a rye whiskey, to market in January. In my view, the most intriguing element of Tincup’s expressions — aside from the rye; it sells two high-rye whiskeys — is its use of Rocky Mountain water to cut the whiskey, which is aged for three ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Even before people were buzzing about “craft whiskey,” innovation was a signature characteristic of small and medium-sized American distillers. Old Potrero, for example, was doing 100% malted rye whiskey in the 1990s, when no one was doing that and there were only a few small whiskey distillers (and no brewstillers; Potrero was an outgrowth of ...