One of the best known Bourbons on the market has now added another permanent edition to their core range,12 years after the last edition the small batch reserve is a welcome addition and incorporates two of their mash bills and using different yeast strains this means six of the ten recopies were used – OESV,…
Category: Bourbon
James E Pepper 4 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
There seems to be an upsurge in Bourbon and especially the Rye side over here in the Uk, many of my whisky friends are starting to take a closer look at the liquids coming from the states. Is this because we want to understand better the complexities of the liquid the cask held previous to…
Blanton’s Original
Bourbon has never been a drink i have loved but that is all changing, so many friends are drinking this liquid and insisting i try different expressions. Lets wind the clock back for this story though, I can remember trying the typical supermarket bourbons and thinking these are way too sweet and oaky for me….
Reservoir Distillery 2 Year Old, That Boutique-y Bourbon Company
Whisky/whiskey or Bourbon always has that power to make dreams happen. It is something born from an instant, a moment when ideas can become reality and todays review is about a Bourbon that was born from a moment.. Let me set the scene.. A College football game but not as most of us know it,…
Heaven Hill 10 Year Old 2009 (cask #152724) – The Single Cask
Heaven Hill Founded in 1935 and originally known as the “Old Heavenhill Springs” distillery, it was 5 brothers from the Shapiro family and a group of investors that were behind the founding of this new distillery, founded shortly after Prohibition ended in Bardstown, Kentucky and in a time of depression and great hardship in the…
F.E.W Bourbon
F E W Frances Elizabeth Willard.. Have you heard of her ? probably not.. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born September 28, 1839 and was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women’s suffragist. Frances Willard became the national president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898….
13 Year Old Tennessee whisky – North Star
North Star North Star Spirits is yet another independent bottler and was founded by Iain Croucher, but it seems the actual name for the company came as most good ideas do, from his wife ! As with a lot of things in life the birth of this company came about on the back of an…
Heaven Hill 9 Year Old Batch 1 That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Founded in 1935 just as prohibition ended and known as “Old Heavenhill Springs” distillery by a group of investors from the Bardstown-area as well as the five Shapira brothers, David, Ed, Gary, George and Mose. December 13, 1935 was the date the first barrel was filled and in 1942 the distillery was shut down by the…
24 Year Old Bourbon whiskey Batch 1 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
That Boutique-y Whisky Company When Christmas comes around we have always bought a Calendar for the kids and then my world changed !! Advent calendars suddenly appeared with whisky within them.. Then That Boutique-y Whisky Company launched theirs and the rest is history, this will be my third year with this calendar and I am…
Michter’s Small Batch Bourbon
Michter’s Shively Distillery Located in Shively, Louisville, Michter’s Distillery is spread across 12.8 acres or around 87,000 square feet, this facility is the home to all of Michter’s processing and bottling operations, as well as two of its small pot stills. October 2014, Michter’s installed a custom-built 32 inch diameter, 46 foot high copper column…
Heaven Hill 9 Year old That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Heaven Hill Founded in 1935 and known as the “Old Heavenhill Springs” distillery by 5 brothers from the Shapiro family and a group of investors shortly after Prohibition ended in Bardstown, Kentucky and in a time of depression and great hardship in the country it was seen by many as a bold move.. Barrel number…
Four Roses 130th Anniversary – Limited edition Small Batch.
Four Roses Bourbon Four roses bourbon has or should I say is celebrating 130 years of producing bourbon under the name of “Four Roses” founded by Paul Jones Jr, the name is said to have come from the moment his true love accepted his proposal by wearing a corsage of four red roses to the…
Tennessee Whisky From That Boutique-y Whisky Company..
Time to take a journey over the big pond to Kentucky, Tennessee, now who the Dickel Distilled this one then ? First things first, is this Whisky, whiskey or Bourbon … Well the good folks from That Boutique-y whisky company assure me this Tennessee whisky is Whisky, so next I know you are thinking my…
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