Angel’s Envy Cask Strength

Angel’s Envy Cask Strength 121 proof (estimated) Louisville Distilling Company and its master distiller, Lincoln Henderson, first gave us Angel’s Envy, a super-premium bourbon finished in port casks for three to six months. Now, just in time for the holidays,…

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Toast Repeal Day with bathtub gin

If you’ve ever wondered what bathtub gin is – or what it tastes like – you should sign up for the Spirits of Prohibition class at Moonshine University, part of the Distilled Spirits Epicenter in Louisville. The class is scheduled…

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New tasting rooms at Maker’s Mark

While I was in Loretto, Ky., for Maker’s Mark’s Cocktail Party a couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to peek at the distillery’s three new tasting rooms, one of which is pictured above. The distillery added the rooms, which…

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If you’re getting tobacco or grapefruit or whatever in my bourbon, I must be doing something wrong. Good bourbon should taste like good bourbon! Parker Beam, master distiller for Heaven Hill

These Girls Walk into a Blog…

Jordan Catapano likes to mix things up. The professional bartender and mixologist serves as a cocktail expert for several online publications and blogs at www.thisgirlwalksintoabar.com, where she also sells barware and apparel (I bought the “Real Women Drink Bourbon” T-shirt, of course)….

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The Old Owl Tavern

The Beaumont Inn has been welcoming travelers to Harrodsburg, Ky., since 1919, and yet somehow I hadn’t made my way there until last weekend. I stayed at the Beaumont’s Goddard Hall after attending an event for ambassadors at Maker’s Mark in Loretto,…

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Roll out the Bourbon Barrel Stout

Trey White, CEO of Anderson Valley Brewing Co., and Jimmy Russell, master distiller for Wild Turkey, toasted their companies’ first collaboration at a rollout of Anderson Valley’s Bourbon Barrel Stout at the Silver Dollar Lounge in Louisville on Nov. 7….

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Woodford Reserve Four Wood

Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection: Four Wood 94.4 proof The 2012 Master’s Collection entry by Chris Morris, the seventh in the series, batches Woodford Reserve fully aged in white oak and then finished in maple barrels, sherry barrels and ruby port barrels….

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Vote the Cocktail Party 2012

Well, tomorrow is finally Election Day, and after a fun event at Maker’s Mark Distillery on Saturday night, I can honestly say that I fully support… the Cocktail Party. My husband and I joined several hundred other Maker’s Mark Ambassadors…

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Join me for desserts and bourbon

Lots of people enjoy a bourbon before dinner, then switch to coffee with dessert. But the flavor profile of bourbon – vanilla, caramel, dark fruit, spices – pairs beautifully with many dessert options. Learn more about serving bourbon with dessert by joining me, the Bourbon Babe,…

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