By April Manning Rating: C Taconic Distillery was established in 2013 as Millbrook Distillery, by which name it was known until May 2015, and has impressively taken on being environmentally aware. They are located in an area that is concerned with creating a healthy, sustainable food system, including sustainable-food champion Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, so joining the ...

By Richard Thomas This is an era when the popularity of world whiskey has driven prices sky high. As age statements fall, old favorites become discontinueds, and then collectibles, driving prices up. Meanwhile, more thirsty mouths are chasing the same favorites that remain, driving prices up. Take Japanese Whisky as a crystalized example. Once a category known only to the ...

Four Roses Distillery has chosen to mark the culmination of its $55 million expansion project with the release of a new bourbon and permanent brand extension of their line with Small Batch Select. The Distillery’s expansion project began in 2015 and is doubling production capacity to accommodate for growing industry demand, while the Four Roses regular line-up hasn’t seen a ...

By Richard Thomas Louisville has long contested Bardstown’s claim as “The Bourbon Capital of the World,” but it hasn’t always had much of a case to press in that department. There was a stretch of a few years back in the 1990s where just one big distiller was operating in the Louisville suburb of Shively, and neither of those distilleries ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B American Fifth Spirits was reportedly ready to go in Lansing, Michigan in 2009, which would have placed them among the early group of craft distilleries that followed the trailblazers like Stranahan’s and Tuthilltown. However, the Great Recession dried up their access to financing, and the project languished until 2013, with the distillery opening in 2015. ...