Rabbit Hole Raceking Bourbon is a limited-run bourbon crafted using a five-grain mash of corn, rye, malted rye, chocolate malted wheat, and chocolate malted barley. There is no age statement, but since it's a NAS straight bourbon it's at least 4 years old. The name Raceking comes … [Read more...] about Rabbit Hole Raceking Bourbon Review
Woodford Reserve Toasted Oak Oat Grain Review
Woodford Reserve Toasted Oak Oat Grain is their oat-grain bourbon finished in new toasted oak barrels. Made from a mash of 66% Corn and 18% Oats, it's far from typical, but also not wholly unique in the whiskey world. Corsair had their Oatrage, High West had their Silver … [Read more...] about Woodford Reserve Toasted Oak Oat Grain Review
Milam and Greene Triple Cask Bourbon Review
The name of the Milam and Greene Triple Cask Bourbon is a bit confusing. Normally, when you hear the terms double cask, triple cask, etc. it means the whiskey was aged in different cask types like ex-Sherry, ex-Port, etc. That's how every other whiskey producer out there uses … [Read more...] about Milam and Greene Triple Cask Bourbon Review
Dunce Bourbon Whiskey Review
Transparently bottled by the folks at Tamworth Distilling, and created to help promote the book Brand Mysticism by Steven Grasse and Aaron Goldfarb, this MGP bourbon is a lesson to, and a jab at, the NDP industry. In a nutshell, they're pointing out how dumb and behind-the-times … [Read more...] about Dunce Bourbon Whiskey Review
Hirsch Cask Strength Cognac Finished Bourbon Review
The Hirsch Cask Strength Cognac Finished Bourbon is created by first blending together 54 barrels of their 13% rye mash bourbon that have been aged for at least 6 years. That blend is the dumped into 30-year-old Hine XO cognac barrels and allowed to finish in a KY rick house for … [Read more...] about Hirsch Cask Strength Cognac Finished Bourbon Review
Hirsch Bivouac Bourbon Whiskey Review
A blend of 3-year-old bourbon (95%) and 8-year-old bourbon (5%), the Hirsch Bivouac Bourbon Whiskey is part of the current Hirsh core line. The name "Bivouac" is a reference to a temporary, coverless, camp used by mountaineers and adventurers. Since the two mash bills were … [Read more...] about Hirsch Bivouac Bourbon Whiskey Review
Maker’s Mark BRT-02 Wood Finishing Series 2022
This Maker's Mark BRT-02 Wood Finishing Series 2022 has me wishing I had found a bottle of the BRT-01 as well because they're two halves of an experiment I want to taste: top vs bottom of the rickhouse. I know from doing warehouse tastings that, in simplistic terms, barrels at … [Read more...] about Maker’s Mark BRT-02 Wood Finishing Series 2022
Wyoming Whiskey 1872 Review
Released to honor 150 years of Yellowstone National Park, the Wyoming Whiskey 1872 is a celebratory bottle that blends their traditional wheated mash bill with a more recent ryed mash bill. Wheated being at least 51% corn + wheat + malted barley and the ryed being at least 51% … [Read more...] about Wyoming Whiskey 1872 Review
Lost Spirits Abomination Heavily Peated Malt Review
The Lost Spirits Abomination Heavily Peated Malt does not carry the word whisky on it because it legally can't. It's not a whisky, it hasn't been aged in an oak container. Instead it's a 100% malted barley mash that's been infused with oak via wood chips in Lost Spirit's … [Read more...] about Lost Spirits Abomination Heavily Peated Malt Review
2002 K&L Bladnoch 11 Years Review
The 2002 K&L Bladnoch 11 Years and the Young Bladnoch came out around the same time back in 2014 and they capture what was happening at the distillery's rebirth. The whiskey in this bottle is from the early days of the Armstrongs bringing it back to life and shows the lightly … [Read more...] about 2002 K&L Bladnoch 11 Years Review