By Richard Thomas No news sells like bad news, so it was a good news day for the doom-singers when Knob Creek dropped its age statement in 2016. They crowed “I told ya so,” and pointed even more forcefully to an ever grimmer future. But then an interesting thing happened. Earlier this year, Knob Creek brought back the 9 year ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Heretofore, Pinhook has been known for its sourced whiskeys rather than its in-house production from Castle & Key. This first batch of Bohemian represents a shift towards the latter, as this inaugural high proof expression (114.5 proof to be exact), is drawn from the first 100 barrels of their bourbon made and aged at what ...

Updated January 14, 2022 By Richard Thomas Average Rating: A-/B+ The sheer sucktitude of 2020 is the stuff of memes and jokes, and I’m left to wonder if the year will go down as a watershed to be fictionalized, romanticized and studied or if it will become the kind of thing we’ll all be so eager to forget that we ...

Ranking The Blood Oath Bourbons, Pact 1 To 6 By Richard Thomas Not all of the annual, limited edition whiskey series have been around for most of the current century, ala Old Forester or Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. In fact, most of them are less than a decade old, which makes tracking the entire arc of these pricey, one-time only ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: B+ If one were trying to make a case in favor of drinking young bourbon, then one of the first expert witnesses called should probably be the folks at Treaty Oak. The Dripping Springs, Texas-based distillery produces two young, relatively high ABV bourbons: Ghost Hill bourbon, a wheated bourbon of 57% corn, 32% wheat, and 11% ...