By Richard Thomas Rating: B When animal feed giant Alltech decided to expand from brewing beer into distilling whiskey, they not only brought distilling to Lexington, Kentucky after half a century, but they also brought malt whiskey back to Lexington distilling. The distilling industry in the Heart of the Bluegrass once had a distinctly Irish flare to it, so bourbon ...

By Jake Emen Rating: A- Good ol’ fashioned American whiskey produced in the rolling Kentucky hills isn’t typically associated with the intense, peaty smokiness and maltiness of scotch, but many trends have sprung up in the whiskey craze of modern times, and one of them is the American malt whiskey. Imagine the malt whiskey base of the Scottish style, but ...