Michter’s Master Distiller Pamela Heilmann and Michter’s Master of Maturation Andrea Wilson have decided to release Michter’s 20 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon this year. The last release of this Michter’s offering occurred two years ago in November 2016. “We’re really proud of our 20 year and older offerings,” commented Michter’s President Joseph J. Magliocco. “They come from stocks that we ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Ironically, Jack Daniel’s introduction of a Bottled In Bond version of their Tennessee Whiskey, billed as a testimony to the heritage of the brand, also points directly to how the Bottled In Bond Act of 1897 is something of a dusty antique. Jack Daniel’s introduced its iconic square bottle in 1895, and the Progressive Era ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Anchor Distilling’s (now Hotaling & Co.) Old Portero is craft whiskey before there was craft whiskey, predating the movement we know today by almost two decades. However, it took the explosion of small distillers for Old Potrero to pursue brand expansions. After all, you need to know a market is there. Old Potrero 18th Century ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- One of the things I like to warn folks about is just because someone has a blog does not mean she knows what she’s blogging about. Even some who work as journalists and produce paid work for mainstream publications sometimes have a depressing inability to separate their opinions from fact or distinguish what they actually ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: B In the vast expansion of American craft distilling, there is a tremendous consistency in one regard: passion. For quite some time, I would speak of craft distillers, whiskey-makers in particular, as a sparse group, because whiskey is time-consuming, laborious and expensive to produce. Not so these days, as more men and women are happily indulging ...