Grain & Barrel Spirits has introduced Chicken Cock Master Distiller’s Pick, a 15-year-old limited-edition Barrel Proof release, just in time for the holiday season. For this special expression, Master Distiller Gregg Snyder handpicked 10 of the brand’s best and oldest barrels, sampling them periodically during the finishing process to evaluate the spectacular transformation. He determined that the flavor combinations reached ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Barrell Craft Spirits new Private Release series is built around the concept of building 24 separate and distinct whiskeys with common roots. All the AH releases use the same blend of “Kentucky Whiskey,” the oldest constiutent of which is an 18 year old, and giving them barrel finishes before bottling at cask strength. That is ...

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 ...

The Jack Daniel Distillery has announced the release of the sixth and seventh whiskeys in its Tennessee Tasters’ Selection series – Jamaican Allspice and 14E19 “Twin” Blend. The experimental whiskeys, limited to approximately 24,000 bottles for each release, are introduced several times a year after being carefully chosen by Jack Daniel’s Master Tasters to deliver unique and diverse experiences. Jamaican ...

By Elizabeth Emmons Rating: B+ Earlier this year, I wrote a review of Starward’s Solera, which sparked a newfound interest for me in this Australian distiller. As I have a penchant for cask strength, and I was pleasantly surprised with my recent foray into this brand from down under, there was little risk in trying the Starward Astor Barrell release, ...