On Friday, June 1st, Virginia’s Catoctin Creek will release the Roundstone Rye Cask Proof Hickory Finish whisky! This takes their near 120 proof, award winning Roundstone Rye Cask Proof and finishes it in a hickory syrup barrel (not a barrel made from hickory!). The finish imparts a tangier, slightly smoky flavor to the rye whiskey. This follows a hickory finish ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: C- Two James Distillery was the first legal distillery in Detroit since the Prohibition era, opening in 2013 . It has been often said that the decline of the Motor City and the resulting cheap rents for large spaces has lured many creative folks to the city. The distillery founder Peter Bailey attributes the Detroit ...

Although rye whiskey once enjoyed great success in Pennsylvania through the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, the passage of the 18th Amendment and Prohibition terminated production for the entire state’s rye whiskey distilling business, which would never truly recover and eventually died in 1990. Fast forward 28 years to today, and rye whiskey distilling is ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: A Eureka, California, nestled in a truly unique area between ancient redwood forests and the Pacific Coast, is not the place that comes to mind when you think of fine American whiskey. Even so, right there in the seat of Humboldt county sits Humboldt Craft Spirits (HCS), the first and only licensed distillery headquartered in Eureka. ...

By Richard Thomas Solera aging jumped over from fortified wines in Southwestern Europe to whisky-making about 20 years ago, but it’s virtues have only been catching on recently. That slowness to spread was really only to be expected, though, since it was the boom in world whisky that has driven the adoption of new methods and the creation of new ...