By April Manning Rating: B- Brad and Kate Mead got the gumption to make bourbon in 2006, leading them to conceive Wyoming Whiskey. They began distilling in 2009, their products were introduced to liquor stores in 2012, and it has been clear blue Wyoming skies ever since. It was so well received the Meads had to expand their production in ...

By Richard Thomas American whiskeys are particularly well-suited to sweltering weather thanks to a combination of two elements. One is the sweet flavors drawn from aging in new American oak. Another is their generally higher bottle strength. While whisk(e)y around the world shares an almost universal minimum of 40% ABV, most sit in a range of 40 to 46%. For ...

Brown-Forman is expanding the Early Times brand by adding a bottled in bond expression. Introduced in 1940, Early Times is now known as the most recognizable of the “American whiskeys,” or whiskeys that because they are aged in used oak barrels cannot be referred to as bourbon, rye, wheat or malt whiskey. As such, Early Times is labeled “Kentucky Whiskey” ...

By Richard Thomas As The Whiskey Reviewer examined last week, counterfeit whiskey scams are on the rise around the globe, infesting both the bottom and top shelf ends of the spectrum. Heretofore, the only ways to determine whether a given bottle is a phony is to 1) identify telltale flaws on the bottle; and 2) have the whiskey tasted by ...

In 1992, sixth generation Beam Master Distiller Booker Noe created Knob Creek Bourbon, a forerunner of the small batch bourbons of the 1990s that laid the foundation of today’s bourbon boom. The 9 year old Knob Creek Small Batch Bourbon became one of four expressions in the seminal Beam Small Batch Collection, along with Booker’s, Baker’s and Basil Hayden. Twenty-five ...