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Dry Fly Port Finish Wheat Whiskey Review
By Jake Emen Rating: B Dry Fly Port Finished Wheat Whiskey(Credit: Dry Fly) Dry Fly Distilling produces a wide line-up of whiskeys, spearheaded by its award-winning Washington Wheat Whiskey. They also...
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Whiskey Gains Instead of Loses Age Statement In today’s world of premium American and Scotch Whiskeys/ies, the trend is to remove age statements from existing labels, or release new labels with no age...
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Q&A With Dry Fly Distilling
An Interview with Dry Fly Co-Distiller Kent Fleischmann By Richard Thomas The Dry Fly guys: Patrick Donovan, Don Poffenroth, and Kent Fleischmann (left to right)(Credit: Dry Fly Distilling) Distilling...
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Parker’s Heritage 2014 Cask Strength Wheat Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A Parker’s Heritage Cask Strength Wheat Whiskey (2014) (Credit: Richard Thomas) Heaven Hill’s Parker’s Heritage Collection, a limited edition series named for Master Distiller...
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Dark Corner Stumphouse Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Dark Corner Stumphouse Whiskey(Credit: Dark Corner) If experimentation is the byword of the American craft whiskey movement, Dark Corner is certainly doing more than its...
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Pittsburgh’s Wigle Distillery Releases First Straight Whiskeys Today
By Richard Thomas Wigle’s new straight whiskeys(Credit: Wigle Whiskey) Wigle Whiskey passed a major milestone today with the release of its first straight whiskeys, or whiskeys that have passed the two...
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Spirit Works Wheat Whiskey Review
By Father John Rayls Rating: B Spirit Works Straight Wheat Whiskey(Credit: John Rayls) With all of the controversy surrounding the choice of Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye as Jim Murray’s best whisky...
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Banner Wheat Whiskey Review
By Elizabeth Emmons Rating: B- Banner Wheat Whiskey(Credit: Elizabeth Emmons) Banner Distilling Company was founded in 2012 by two friends and co-workers, Logan Simpson and Anthony Jimenez. The...
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Hosting A Whiskey Tasting Party
Putting Together Interesting, Affordable Whiskey Flights For Home Tastings By Richard Thomas (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) With whiskey trendier than ever before, more whiskey fans are introducing...
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Kentucky Craft Distilling Comes Into Its Own
Kentucky’s Small Distillers Emerge Onto Center Stage By Richard Thomas The Barrel Houseat the Old Pepper Distillery(Credit: Joana Thomas) Even during bourbon’s nadir in the ’70s and ’80s, the...
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Wilderness Trace Opens New And Bigger Danville, Kentucky Facility
By Richard Thomas Kentucky micro-distillery Wilderness Trace has opened their new distillery in Danville, Kentucky and begun producing whiskey there. With their larger facility, Wilderness Trace is now...
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What Happened To Wheat Whiskey Anyway?
In The Midst Of The Bourbon Boom And The Rye Revival, All Eyes Are On American Malts As “The Next Big Thing.” What Happened To Wheat Whiskey? By Richard Thomas (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) When Heaven...
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Breuckelen Distilling 77 Wheat Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Breuckelen 77 Wheat Whiskey(Credit: Richard Thomas) Just because you have an urban distillery doesn’t mean you can’t have a locovore’s, DIYer’s attitude towards running a...
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Want To Try Whiskey Blending? Timber Creek Can Help You There
By Elizabeth Emmons The whiskeys of Timber Creek’s blending kit(Credit: Elizabeth Emmons) Micro-barrels that allow for small experiments in home whiskey aging have been around for a while now, but, for...
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Understanding Types Of American Whiskey
By Richard Thomas The Jack Daniel’s copper in Lynchburg(Credit: Brown-Forman) Part of the Bourbon Boom is the way in which the rise of Kentucky’s Native Spirit has tugged the other major categories of...
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Craft Whiskey In Crafty Vermont
By Richard Thomas Vermont is a little state. Only Wyoming has fewer people in it, and in geographic size it is typical of the small states of New England. Yet that little place is renowned for its...
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Eleven Years Of Parker’s Heritage Whiskeys
By Richard Thomas Parker Heritage Cask Strength Wheat Whiskey (2014)(Credit: Richard Thomas) Parker’s Heritage is one of two series of annual limited editions that leave enthusiasts guessing as to what...
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Heaven Hill Expands Bernheim Into World’s Biggest Bourbon Plant
Heaven Hill Distillery yesterday dedicated the expansion of its Bernheim facility, creating the single largest Bourbon production site after a $25 million investment. Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY)...
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Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey(Credit: Richard Thomas) Some craft distilleries follow a path of focusing on one thing, such as Garrison Brothers and their Texas Bourbon or...
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Journeyman Corsets, Whips And Whiskey Review
By Father John Rayls Rating: A- Journeyman Corsets, Whips and Whiskey(Credit: Journeyman Distillery) Journeyman Distillery has another winner in its Corsets, Whips and Whiskey. This is a barrel...
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