By Richard Thomas Will Kehler and Ian Smiley, the author of Making Pure Corn Whiskey and co-author of The Distiller’s Guide to Rum, have teamed up to put their own white whiskey on the market, Manhattan Moonshine. * Reportedly Kehler and Smiley were inspired by the realization that during the Prohibition era much of a large portion of the illegal ...

By Richard Thomas American craft whiskey is a big and booming field nowadays, with nearly 500 active distillers and bottlers in operation today. In that crowded field, only a handful of operators enjoy the reputation of Paul Hletko and Few Spirits. As Master Distiller, Hletko has built up a solid reputation around the products of his Evanston, Illinois distillery. In ...

By Jake Emen It took just a few months of operation for Lyon Distilling Company of St. Michaels, Maryland to break a 42-year streak which stood as a stain against a state with ties to whiskey distilling dating to the colonial days. When they introduced Maryland Free State Rye Whiskey, it became the first rye made in Maryland since 1972, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C- Although the white whiskey trend started several years ago in the then-nascent craft whiskey sector, that hasn’t stopped the big boys getting in on the act. Hence, Jim Beam’s introduction Jacob’s Ghost White Whiskey. Billed as a throwback to what the historic founder of the Beam dynasty, Jacob Beam, was making in the late 18th ...

By Richard Thomas One side-effect of the surge in American craft whiskey has been the rise of white whiskey. The two trends are inextricably linked, as the need for new micro-distilleries to get a product on the market and start making money prompted many a start-up to release one or more unaged spirits. Twenty years ago, there was nothing on ...