By Jake Emen Rating: C+ The Whiskey Del Bac lineup from Hamilton Distillers in Tucson, Arizona, is new and offers a family of single malts made in a more or less traditional Scotch fashion. The “more” refers to the authentic floor malting being utilized, while the “less” refers to the usage of mesquite smoking, rather than peat, giving these whiskeys ...

Interview With Craft Distilling Expert And Master Distiller John Jeffery By Richard Thomas Although the American craft distilling boom is still a relatively new phenomenon, it already has some well-established figures, and by that I mean other than Chip Tate. John Jeffery was the head of a university distilling research program before moving over to work at one of the ...

By Richard Thomas As I keep an eye out for whiskey fans among actors, artists, authors and the like, one of the things I have noticed is how popular the “water of life” is with those notables of the more underground persuasion. This was certainly the case several years ago, prior to the current big whiskey boom, and it seems ...

By Richard Thomas When Iowa’s Templeton Rye declared they were selling whiskey made from a Prohibition era recipe when they were really trucking in stock rye whiskey from Indiana, they so tainted Iowa’s Prohibition history that some cast doubt on the very notion that there had ever been moonshiners and bootleggers in the Hawkeye State. Now another whiskey company has ...

Onyx Spirits Company, the first distillery to produce Connecticut whiskey in centuries, has announced the December release of a whiskey that revives colonial craftsmanship. The whiskey, to be named Secret Stash Reserve, is produced by barrel aging the award winning Onyx Moonshine in hand-built, charred, American oak barrels. Onyx Moonshine, made from corn, malted grains, and Connecticut spring water, is ...