Months following California’s Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, Charbay Distillery has released a limited edition Racer 5 (R5) Aged Whiskey to benefit the survivors of this disaster. The newly released Lot No. 5 follows in the Charbay line of making whiskey from bottle-ready beer, and renews their collaboration with Bear Republic Brewery. The whiskey was distilled ...

New Riff Distilling today announced that it will share barrels that formerly held New Riff Bourbon with 34 of the state’s top craft brewers on January 16. It marks New Riff Distilling’s first participation in the Kentucky Guild of Brewers’ Kentucky Craft Bash, where a single distillery donates barrels to be given a new life by brewers who will use ...

Mad River Distillers of Warren, Vermont and 14th Star Brewing Company of St. Albans, Vermont have teamed up again for their third annual release of Mad River’s Hopscotch Vermont Single Malt Whiskey. The whiskey was distilled by Mad River from a wash of 14th Star’s Tribute Double IPA, barrel-aged in charred American oak barrels for over two years in Mad ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- I’ve been on something of a kick with American malt whiskeys made from beer lately, but, technically speaking, that is not what the Oregon Single Malt from Rogue Ales is. Unlike their Dead Guy Whiskey, the Oregon Single Malt isn’t made from a wort in common with one of their beers. Instead, it relies on ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B I can recall more than a decade ago, when bourbon barrel-aged beer was an in-house fixture of just a few craft brewers, and the only one bottled and in distribution was Alltech’s Bourbon Barrel Ale. Now they are just about everywhere, and that includes Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis. Diddy Muckle is the bourbonized version ...