You’ve heard of a tempest in a teapot. This was a blowup in a bottle – a bottle of Maker’s Mark with one key change on the label: 42 percent alcohol by volume, rather than the historic 45 percent. The distillery’s…
Last night I spent some time playing around with ingredients for a Valentine’s Day cocktail. I knew that I wanted to use bourbon, of course, and I settled on Four Roses Single Barrel, which has a bit of a bite…
Later this month, the 12 bottles in the eighth round of Buffalo Trace’s Single Oak Project will appear in stores, marking the halfway point of this ambitious experiment to find the Holy Grail of bourbon. The project began in 1999,…
Bill Samuels Jr. has responded on Maker’s Mark’s website to critics and questioners of the distillery’s decision to reduce its alcohol by volume by 3 percent to extend supply. He says, in part: “Since we’re a one-brand company that’s never purchased…
“Bourbon is a combination of science, skill and luck.” Wes Henderson, chief operating officer of Louisville Distilling Co., maker of Angel’s Envy
Maker’s Mark lit up the Internet this weekend with an email to its ambassadors announcing that the company would begin lowering the alcohol by volume (ABV) of its flagship bourbon by 3 percent – from 45 to 42. The addition…
As promised, here is Part Two of my recap of a recent bourbon event at the Filson Historical Society. After Michael Veach led us through tastings of three vintage bourbons, the Hendersons of Louisville Distilling Co. shared some samples of their Angel’s Envy and…
I know lots of people are still celebrating the Ravens, but I have another bird on my mind: Old Crow. More specifically, the 105-year-old bottle of Old Crow that I sampled last week at the Filson Historical Society. This terrific…
A native Kentuckian is making whiskey and bourbon in the first legal distillery in New York City since Prohibition. Read more about Colin Spoelman and his Kings County Distillery, part of a wave of small-batch distilleries in New York and…
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