Still Austin Whiskey Co. plans to release their first aged product, a bourbon whiskey, in Spring of 2019. The whiskey will feature 100% Texas-grown corn, rye and barley. The bourbon whiskey has been 100% milled, mashed, fermented, distilled and matured by hand, at the distillery, located in the heart of South Austin at 440 East Saint Elmo Road. “We take great pride ...

The use of forest terroir and exotic, local tree species has become a growing part of modern whiskey-making, but Buffalo Trace Distillery began working about 15 years ago, resulting in a re-imagined whiskey brand called Old Charter Oak. Most bourbon whiskey is aged in oak from the American Ozarks, Appalachia or northern Alabama, but Buffalo Trace Distillery wondered if barrels ...

Hitting shelves this month is a 10 Year Old version of Basil Hayden, the high rye, premium expression from Jim Beam. Like the basic expression, Basil Hayden 10 Year Old is bottled at a lighter 80 proof. The original Basil Hayden was an 8 year old bourbon, basically an older version of Old Granddad. That age statement was removed in ...

By Richard Thomas As a Gen Xer guy, I was part of the tail end of the days when people bought actual printed girlie magazines, so I must make a confession/disclaimer in opening this interview: Carrie Stevens, Ms. June 1997, was my favorite from that era. Twenty years later, I tripped over her social media, remembered her, and became a ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Having lived much of my life in Indiana, it always seemed to me there should have been a much larger whiskey representation in both distilleries and retail product. Kentucky and (southern) Indiana have much in common culturally, but the whiskey part never got much of a footing north of the Ohio River. Of course, ...