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 ...
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Rhetoric Bourbon Turns 25 With Final Release
Rhetoric Bourbon is arguably the most interesting project to come out of the Orphan Barrel series of ultra-aged North American whiskeys from Diageo. The idea was to take a stock of already quite old bourbon, and release some each year to create a steadily older, vertical series. The series started with Rhetoric 20 Year Old, and each year that has ...
Read More »Buffalo Trace Brings Out 25 Year Old O.F.C. Bourbon
The year was 1993, and while “The X Files” debuted on national television and “Jurassic Park” broke box office records, Buffalo Trace Distillery quietly distilled and then laid away some of its bourbon to slumber, undisturbed, for 25 years, to be exact. Now that bourbon has been bottled, and the result is the next offering of the O.F.C. Vintage Bourbon, ...
Read More »Kentucky Bourbon Inventory At An All-Time High. What Does That Mean?
By Richard Thomas For the last few years, a popular factoid in My Old Kentucky Home is that we have more bourbon barrels socked away than people. With a population just shy of 4 1/2 million, crossing that threshold was a noteworthy milestone in the ongoing Bourbon Boom, but it pales in comparison to the one achieved in 2017. According ...
Read More »Koval Single Barrel Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Koval enjoys a prominent reputation in the craft whiskey scene, and in my opinion this boils down to two things. They were an early entrant for one thing, starting in 2008 as the first post-Prohibition distillery in Chicago. The second thing is what most whiskey geeks notice upon seeing their wares on a store shelf: ...
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