By Douglas Fraser Grade: C+ The Kooper Family Distillery is 100% family owned and operated, by Troy and Michelle Kooper, who have spent years making and blending whiskey in Ledbetter, Texas. Their blends can be found predominantly in the Lone Star State, but aren’t unknown elsewhere. Like many a small whiskey company, they started by blending sourced distillates before making ...
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Buzzard’s Roost Small Batch Rye Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B This being Kentucky, our locals probably spawn more whiskey projects per capita than anywhere else in the world (and yes, I’m looking at you too, Scotland). An example is last summer, when Jason Brauner launched Buzzard’s Roost Rye. Brauner is the co-owner of Louisville’s Bourbons Bistro, and where this anywhere else one might expect a ...
Read More »Knob Creek 12 Year Old Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Hard on the heels of the return of the classic Knob Creek 9 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon, Jim Beam has gone one better and introduced Knob Creek 12 Year Old as a permanent brand extension. Five years after the bourbon world went hysterical with talk of a shortage that was going to wipe all ...
Read More »Porter’s Small Batch Rye Whiskey Review
By Andrew Graham Grade: B- Based 10 miles east of Great Salt Lake in Utah, Ogden’s Own Distillery is perhaps best known in their region for its portfolio of Porter’s flavored whiskies. It also makes vodka and gin, and it now sells a rye, which is sourced from MGP in Indiana. Porter’s Small Batch Rye uses the popular MGP rye ...
Read More »New Riff Backsetter Peated Backset Rye
By Richard Thomas Rating: B New Riff’s inaugural Backsetter release consists of two new spins on their staple whiskeys, their bonded bourbon and rye. That spin is the use of backset from the mash of an entirely separate, third whiskey, which was made with a mash of peated malted barley and rye. What makes all this so unorthodox is that ...
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