Banter Buffalo Trace 2021 George T. Stagg Non-Release Review Every year, I wait longingly for the release of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, praying to snag just one bottle. This set of five ultra premium, highly prized whiskeys from Buffalo Trace garners a wild-eyed, cash-throwing frenzy from bourbon collectors and flippers alike.
Banter Top 5 Most Overrated Bourbons Top 5 Most Overrated Bourbons – Now that Bourbon Heritage Month is in the rearview mirror, the fall release season will be picking up steam and we are sure to see email announcements, raffles, charity auctions, and lawn chair tater lines wrapped around liquor stores across this great land.
On The Road Nashville Barrel Company Redefines the Honey Barrel A gourmet chef, a beekeeper, and a brewery owner walk into a bar… Waiting for them are Mike Hinds and James Davenport, the two gentlemen behind the meteoric rise of Nashville Barrel Company.
Cocktails The Ultimate Guide to the Old Fashioned Cocktail If you know any whiskey cocktail, it should be the Old Fashioned. Made well, the simple marriage of whiskey, sugar, and bitters yields one of the most delightful cocktails you will ever enjoy. Made poorly, it will undoubtedly sour you on the drink, and for some, whiskey cocktails in general.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Watershed Distillery Bourbon Review I tried this after tasting the Watershed Bottled-in-Bond, figuring the apple brandy might taint my palate in a way a straight bourbon wouldn’t. Unfortunately, it didn’t matter. Even after three tries, I just couldn’t find much flavor here.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Watershed Bottled In Bond Bourbon Review For my first taste of Watershed Distillery, this was a solid if unspectacular bottled-in-bond bourbon. It doesn’t have many youth notes and is more apple- and rye-forward (though the mash bill is undisclosed), and I found it a great mixer for a Manhattan or a less-sweet Gold Rush.
Banter Bottled In Bullshit A whiskey using a new barrel aging concept has taken double gold at the International World Whiskey Awards. Smith and Johnson’s Small Batch Bourbon took home double gold in the bourbon category and was named “Best Overall Whiskey” in the Small Batch American Whiskey category.
Banter Bourbon Food Pairing 101 Want to make your bourbon taste even better—without spending a penny more on it? Do that by pairing bourbon with food. Wine’s gotten the food-pairing nod for centuries, and for good reason: It’s made for food. But bourbon—any good whiskey, really—is worthy of the same role. Trust me.
Podcast The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Bourbon & Banter Podcast #18 The 18th episode of the Bourbon & Banter podcast – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – is now available for your listening and drinking pleasure. Sit back, grab a pour, and join the biggest and MOST HONEST podcast in bourbon as we celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.
Bottled Cocktails Cask & Kettle Hard Coffee Cocktails Review The folks at Cask & Kettle are self-proclaimed “hot drink and cocktail lovers.” This affinity led them to create 5 flavors of pre-mixed cocktail pods that only require adding water.
Banter Join Us for the 2021 30 Days Of Bourbon Challenge The rules are pretty simple: This is a Bourbon challenge. No Rye, Scotch, Irish, Indian, Taiwanese, Canadian, Japanese, Australian, yadda, yadda, yadda. If it ain’t Bourbon, it doesn’t count.
Rye Whiskey Reviews Blue Run Golden Rye Whiskey Review This is Blue Run’s inaugural rye release schedule to debut on September 6, 2021 – a sourced Kentucky straight rye whiskey. I found this rye to have a super cool funk on the palate with a very heavy note of sorghum sugar, which has a distinct earthy, sweet flavor.
Rum Reviews The Holmes Cay Single Origin Edition Fiji Rum Review The Holmes Cay Fiji Rum – Single Origin Edition is a blend of lightly aged molasses-based pot and column still rum from South Pacific Distilleries in Lautoka, Fiji.
Bourbon News Old Forester’s Next Release in the 117 Series Old Forester Distilling Co. announces the release of the second expression in the 117 Series — a blend of barrels from historic Warehouse K. The 117 Series is a limited-expression lineup created in Spring 2021, directed by the unique palate of Old Forester Master Taster Jackie Zykan.
Podcast Everything Is Better On A Stick – Bourbon & Banter Podcast #17 The 17th episode of the Bourbon & Banter podcast – Everything Is Better On A Stick – is now available for your listening and drinking pleasure. Sit back, grab a pour, and join the most honest AND BIGGEST podcast in bourbon as we celebrate a decade of Bourbon & Banter.
Drinking Accessory Reviews Orca Barrel Oak Wood Grain Drink Tumbler Review This item is made from your typical industry standard 18/8 Stainless Steel with seamless inner wall. There are a few things that set this apart from the other standard offerings from the major brands in this category. The main one is the way it looks.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Swilled Dog Spirits Bourbon and Rye Review Which of the offerings from Swilled Dog Spirits are good, better, best? Lee Stang tastes their lineup to find out.
Banter Heaven’s Door Master Blenders’ Edition Redbreast Collaboration Review I’m someone who likes to try new things and enjoys seeing the results of experimentation. Because of that, I very well may have been curious enough to try this even at it’s steep price point had I not been sent this sample from Heaven’s Door. How did it fare?
Cocktails Tip Top Proper Cocktails Old Fashioned: Your New Favorite Inflight Drink I recently took my first post-quarantine flight and, as a former frequent traveler, I had so missed the ritual of snagging a cocktail mid-flight to signal the true end of the day or the beginning of vacation.
Bourbon News Limestone Branch Announces New Yellowstone Limited Edition Expression Limestone Branch Distillery is releasing 2021 Yellowstone Limited Edition Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Featuring the most mature and flavorful 7-year-old and 15-year-old bourbons hand-selected by Limestone Branch Master Distiller Stephen Beam – including select 7-year-old barrels.
Industry News Angel’s Envy Announces Expansion Plans ANGEL’S ENVY®, the Louisville-based craft distiller that produces small batch, finished whiskeys, today unveiled the details of the upcoming $8.2M expansion to its downtown Louisville distillery tour.
Bourbon News Introducing the 2021 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon Today, Old Forester Distilling Co. announces the details of the 21st edition of the brand’s beloved Birthday Bourbon. The 2021 release is from 12-year-old barrels and presented at 104 proof. The batch is comprised of 119 barrels filled on April 16, 2009 and matured in Warehouse G.
Flavored Whiskey News Diageo Announces Bulleit Cinnamon Roll Bourbon Diageo’s recent foray into offering single-barrel expressions of Bulleit bourbon had many of our readers questioning the true origin of those barrels. With a hang tag that comments on their “unique” 10 different recipes of high rye bourbon, their two mash bills, and five yeast strains.
Podcast Bring Us All the Bourbon…and Biscuits – Bourbon & Banter Podcast #16 The 16th episode of the Bourbon & Banter podcast – Bring Us All the Bourbon…and Biscuits – is now available, just in time for your July 4th weekend. Sit back, grab a pour, and join the most honest AND BIGGEST podcast in bourbon as we celebrate a decade of Bourbon & Banter.
Book Reviews Pappyland Book Review “Maybe whiskey is so fragile because once the cap comes off, the past rushes out of the bottle and is gone forever,” Wright Thompson explains in one of his incredible passages that captures what makes bourbon so transcendent.
