By Richard Thomas Rating: C Jackson Morgan and its line of whiskey cream liqueurs comes from Spirits of Tennessee, the creation of Mike Wetherington and Ray Steelman, both old hands in the food and beverage industry. Many a whiskey enthusiast sneers at liqueurs and flavored whiskeys, but frankly, many of them are Yankees who have no knowledge of what it ...

By Jake Emen Rating: B You might be torn on the idea of flavored whiskey, but you can’t deny it has huge momentum behind it right now. People are drinking it, a lot of it, and more producers are looking to capitalize. Another new entrant to the scene is Wild Turkey’s American Honey Sting, a spicy riff on the existing ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C- Jack Daniel’s got into the rising tide in flavored whiskey just as the wave was building up steam. This Lynchburg-predigreed honey liqueur was introduced in 2011, yet the flavored whiskey fad didn’t really soar until Fireball’s explosion the next year. The Liqueur As a liqueur, this is basically a honey + whiskey concoction, so the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C- Bushmills, the storied Northern Irish distillery that Diageo recently traded to the Mexicans, took some of their massive stock a few years back and used it to get into the trendy sector of flavored whiskeys and honey-whiskey liqueurs. Since honey is one of the flavors that can appear in whiskey, especially those based on malted ...

By Richard Thomas Niche Drinks, the independent drinks company based in Derry County, Ireland, is set to introduce a new whiskey brand prior to breaking ground on what will become Derry’s first whiskey distillery in decades, according to the Derry Journal. Construction on the new distillery is set to begin in Campsie in summer 2015, with hopes of producing the ...