Banter What Do You Look For In A Whiskey Review? In four months, Bourbon & Banter will celebrate our 5th anniversary. Since launching in February 2011, we’ve drunk a lot of bourbon, made a ton of new friends and learned more than a few things about what makes a blog something people want to read day-after-day.
Boozy Books Tasting Whiskey: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits Uncover the secrets of flavor creation, where the interplay of ingredients and diverse distilling techniques gives rise to distinct and remarkable tastes.
Gear News Weller Stagg 2016 – Full Proof America For any election to be fair there needs to be at least two viable parties. So when we learned that one of our very own Bourbon & Banter team members – Matt Evans – had launched a campaign for Evan Williams and Elijah Craig we knew that some order needed to be injected into the system.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Bourbon & Rye 2016 Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Bourbon & Rye 2016 Edition. It’s been a while since we’ve shared a Heads & Tails post since putting them on hold during Bourbon Heritage Month.
Banter Bourbon & Rye 2016 We’re not very political here at Bourbon & Banter. But sometimes you have to say enough, is enough. This year’s elections have gotten out of control, and we’re pretty darn sure there’s only one way we’re going to survive the elections. Yep. We’re going to drink ourselves through them.
Industry News Constellation Brands Acquires High West Distillery for $160 Million Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, today announced an agreement to purchase Utah-based High West Distillery.
Events Whiskey In The Winter 2016 – Win Free VIP Tickets National Bourbon Heritage Month has come and gone. It’s time to give your liver a quick rest and get ready to head into our second favorite month of the year – November. Why November? Because November is when our favorite whiskey festival is held each year – Whiskey In The Winter.
Banter Time Is Running Out Time is running out. Tomorrow is the final day of National Bourbon Heritage Month (“BHM”). The end of BHM means that our “30 Days of Bourbon, Banter & Giveaways” is also coming to a close.
New Brand Releases Buffalo Trace Distillery Introduces O.F.C. Range of Very Rare and Collectible Vintage-Dated Bourbons FRANKFORT, FRANKLIN COUNTY, KY (September 21, 2016) – This fall, Buffalo Trace Distillery will release three unique vintage-dated bourbons honoring the National Historic Landmark’s original name – the O.F.C. Distillery.
Bourbon News Lux Row Distillers: Luxco’s New Whiskey Distillery This past week, Luxco announced the name of its distillery currently being built in Bardstown, Kentucky: Lux Row Distillers. The new distillery is located in Nelson County on a 70-acre site off state highway KY-245, in the heart of Bardstown.
Banter Welcome to Bourbon Heritage Month 2016 Welcome to Bourbon Heritage Month – the best month of the year. We’re glad you’re here to help us celebrate with 30 days of bourbon, banter, and giveaways. That’s right friends – giveaways.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Dead Tired Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Dead Tired Edition. Why ‘The Dead Tired’ edition? Because that’s what I am. I’m worn out.
Bourbon News Will Wild Turkey’s Celebrity Marketing Be More Than Skin Deep? Last week Wild Turkey stunned the world’s bourbon drinking population by announcing that they had hired Matthew McConaughey as the brand’s new Creative Director. (Yep, you read that right – Creative Director, not a celebrity spokesperson.)
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Alright Alright Alright Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – the Alright Alright Alright Edition. We’ve had one hell of a week here at B&B HQ. So we’re pretty damn excited that it’s Friday and that the weekend is only a matter of hours away.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: It’s About Time It’s Friday Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – the It’s About Time It’s Friday Edition. We’ve had one hell of a week here at B&B HQ. So we’re pretty damn excited that it’s Friday and that the weekend is only a matter of hours away.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Whiskey Collective Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Whiskey Collective Edition. It’s been a busy week around the Bourbon & Banter HQ in St. Louis. We’ve been having a lot of fun hanging out with fellow bourbon and whiskey bloggers who came to town for a bourbon tasting lab hosted by Luxco.
Food People’s Choice Beef Jerky Review: Extra Protein Edition When Brian Bianchetti from People’s Choice Beef Jerky reached out to us a few weeks ago, it didn’t take long for us to agree to try his family’s jerky a possible review.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Wetter Is Better Than Dry Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Wetter is Better Than Dry Edition. This is only the 2nd installment of this new feature but the feedback so far has been fantastic. We’re still working out the layout so don’t be shy in dropping us a note on what you do and don’t like.
Banter Happy 4th of July! Bourbon & Banter would like to wish everyone a very safe and Happy 4th of July.
Banter Bourbon Flavor Wheel Tasting Mat Just a quick post today to let everyone know that we’ve created a new page where you can download the Bourbon & Banter bourbon flavor wheel for free along with a variety of bourbon tasting mats for your personal use.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Why The Hell Not Edition Testing out a new weekly feature on the blog today. Every week we receive a lot of press releases and updates from across the whiskey industry and beyond.
Banter Are you celebrating National Bourbon Flag Day? Today is a pretty special day for all of us here at Bourbon & Banter. Not only is it Flag Day, but it’s National Bourbon Day. Yep, two holidays for the price of one you might say. And we think this special day calls for us to do something special for all of our loyal readers.
Banter Meet Our Newest Bourbon & Banter Team Members As you may recall, several months ago we put out a Help Wanted post to recruit new writers for Bourbon & Banter and from that post, we welcomed a group of eight new writers. Almost three months later we’re excited to introduce another round of bourbon loving folks who will be regular contributors.
Gear News Whiskey Speech T-Shirt Today we’re introducing our newest t-shirt – Whiskey Speech. In 1952, Mississippi state representative, Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat, Jr., gave his infamous “Whiskey Speech” on the floor of the Mississippi state legislature concerning whiskey.
Banter Off the Roost with Wild Turkey A few weeks ago I received a message via our Facebook page from Jim Turlington. Jim’s a wildlife artist, photographer, researcher and commercial art designer who lives in Central Florida where he’s been creating art professionally since 1980.
