Updated July 18, 2016 With Their New Distillery, Wilderness Trail Is Set To Become A Leader In Bluegrass Craft Distilling By Richard Thomas Danville has long struck me as a strangely out of the way place. A lovely college town and local center, it’s also miles removed from a convenient interstate exit, and thus a little troublesome to reach, this ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B This year’s first set of experimental releases from Buffalo Trace is definitely an oddball: the distillery was presumably curious about how exposure to radiative light energy might impact on barrel wood, this on top of a brief charring. Two sets of four barrels were exposed to an infrared (IR) treatment, filled with mash bill #1 ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Buffalo Trace often displays the innovative spirit of a craft distillery, but with the budget of the big player they are. These are the people who spent roughly $1 million on their Warehouse X, a laboratory for controlling all the major climatic and setting variables that play in maturation, and keep 5,000 barrels of experimental ...

By Richard Thomas Rumors began swirling in American whiskey circles starting in the middle of 2015 that an older version of the popular Knob Creek Small Batch Bourbon, already a 9 year old, was coming out. Various reports had this extra aged bourbon between 13 and 16 years old, and in January The Whiskey Reviewer was able to confirm that ...

Frankfort, Kentucky Distillery Plans Major Expansions While Denying Persistent Discontinuation Rumors In response to its popularity and sustained, increased demand, Buffalo Trace Distillery has announced a significant capital investment of more than $200 million to expand the distilling operations. This plan will be carried out over the next seven years, a project to include investments in cooking, fermenting, bottling, land, ...