Have Passport, Will Shop Duty Free This week I noticed a spike in traffic to a piece from September announcing that Jack Daniel’s would soon bottle in bond. I started asking a few questions to the good folks in-the-know over …
Category: Whiskey History
Four Roses To Celebrate 130th Anniversary in 2018
Bourbon, true love, and a corsage of roses launched the now iconic Kentucky Bourbon brand Four Roses in 1888. After surviving the ups and downs of Prohibition, World Wars, and 40 years of no domestic distribution, the folks at Four …
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Kings County Release Celebrates Bottled In Bond Anniversary
100 Proof, 120 Years February 28th, 2017, New York: Kings County Distillery, one of the country’s leading craft distillers and New York City’s oldest and largest whiskey distillery, announces the first release of its Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon, which will be available …
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Jack Daniel’s Chris Fletcher: Learning The Master Distiller’s Ropes – The Whiskey Wash
I spent the day at Jack Daniel Distillery, talking family and fermentation with Chris Fletcher.
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What Tennessee Whiskey Is and Isn’t
What exactly is Tennessee whiskey? Google it and a link to Chris Stapleton pops up. Depending on your search habits, you may have to scroll down through several entries involving lyrics, chord diagrams and Justin Timberlake before discovering results pertaining …
What Happens To Whiskey In The Barrel?
Michael Veach explains the many ways a barrel adds to to the finished product of whiskey. Source: What Happens To Whiskey In The Barrel?
Heaven Hill Recreates the Loaves & Fishes Miracle with Stitzel-Weller Era Bourbon
Yet another magical incarnation of the famed Stitzel-Weller bourbon will be labeled by Heaven Hill this fall. With only 3,000 bottles of the 90 proof John E. Fitzgerald Very Special Reserve being released, demand is sure to be as high …
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