Updated December 17, 2018 By Richard Thomas Rating: B Colorado’s Old Elk Distillery is the current project of Greg Metze, formerly of MGP fame. This is a sourced whiskey, something created to start the brand. Old Elk speaks of three partners, so presumably it’s a blend of whiskeys from three separate distilleries. They bottled it at 88 proof. The Bourbon ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The fourth and final installment in Old Forester’s Whiskey Row series (each tied to a particular moment in time for the venerable Old Forester brand, and named for both it’s former home and recently opened urban distillery on Louisville’s Whiskey Row) *, Old Forester 1910 is a double barreled bourbon. “Double barrel bourbon” refers to ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B- It’s common nowadays that some rare whiskies increase their price and become more difficult to find. Whisky Foundation has launched The Reserve, a selection dubbed by them as “the stock market” of whiskies. That represents a market-driven pricing scheme, where the price tag fluctuates based on demand. The first and current example is a Springbank ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B One of the signatures of the Virginia Distillery Company is blending their in-house malt whiskey with imported Scottish Highland malt whisky. Another is their reliance upon Virginia sources for finishing casks. Thus, the distillery reached out to Potter’s Craft Cider and acquired some of their used casks for a first batch of Cider Cask whiskey, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B A couple of years ago, talking about American Malts as “the next big thing” in whiskey came into vogue, and it still is a popular drinks writing meme today. The odd thing about it is that, following the logic of going to where the big distillers weren’t, some important craft distillers had been heavily engaged ...