Mar 17
Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve 9 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 120 Proof Price Point: $35 – $45 for 750 ML Distiller: Knob Creek Distillery Background It would be much more appropriate to post a review of an Irish whiskey today, as today is St. Patrick’s Day, but alas I do not have …
Mar 14
Last week I asked the question what is the best type of whiskey? By this I mean, in your opinion, do you prefer American (including bourbon), Canadian, Irish, Scotch, or another international variety of whiskey? I didn’t get a whole lot of responses, but the ones I did get were very interesting. On Facebook, …
Mar 07
Before we begin, let me just say that I am completely aware that I am jumping into a hornet’s nest. Whiskey is something that people (including myself) are very, very passionate about, and the geographical segments that we identify the world’s greatest drink by have even more biased fans. That being said, what is the …
Feb 29
There are certain things in life that you either “get” or “don’t get”. If you get it, everyone else who gets it gets you. But if you don’t get it, you don’t get the people who do get it. Get it? What I’m alluding to here is the brotherhood between whiskey drinkers. Although this seems …
Feb 27
(rī)¹ Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey 92 Proof Price Point: $45 – $55 for 750 ML Distiller: Jim Beam Background I’ll tell you what – few whiskey brands are as elusive as (rī)¹. Yep, you read that name right, I didn’t just lean on the keyboard. That is a parenthesis, a lower-case “r”, an “i” …
Feb 22
All whiskey novices step aside – this post is about the potency of the world’s greatest drink. To the inexperienced, a high proof whiskey doesn’t taste like much more than alcohol. But, to the well-trained drinker, a high proof can mean exponentially more flavor than the standard 40 or 46 ABV. When I talk about …
Feb 15
If you peruse through my reviews (that sounded cool, right?) you’ll notice that a lot of my images show bottles that are opened; sometimes with one drink vacant, sometimes completely vacant except for one drink. There are reasons for that. First and foremost, I like my blog photos to be real. Oftentimes when I’m searching …
Feb 08
First and foremost – I’m not a chef. In fact, I know very little about cooking and what separates a good dish from a bad dish, aside from my own personal tastes of course. But, I do enjoy grilling, and in turn I like experimenting on the grill. My wife and I had my sister …
Jan 28
Sazerac 18 Year Old Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey – 2009 Release 90 Proof Price Point: $55 – $65 for 750 ML Distiller: Buffalo Trace Distillery Background We’ve made it. You’ve seen my reviews on George T. Stagg, Eagle Rare 17 Year Old, Thomas H. Handy, and William Larue Weller, and now it’s time to …
Jan 25
Ah yes, the benchmark by which we measure “good” whiskey; age. When we see a 10, 12, 15, 18, or 21 year old, we immediately assume an ascending level of quality. At least that’s what we’ve been conditioned to think. Age statements can tell a story, and certainly aging whiskey is important – but it’s …
