We’ve reviewed a handful of things from Willett, so when I saw this the other day in Texas, I had to purchase it just out of curiosity. Plus, it’s fairly cheap. Feast your peepers on some of our other Kentucky Bourbon Distiller/ Willett reviews here! Side note: This bottle was incredibly hard to open. I […]
Read more "Review: Kentucky Vintage"Well this’ll be a couple of firsts for us here at Barrels and Mash. Not only is it the first official High West review, it’s also the first “Light Whiskey” review we’ve done. Hooray for new things! Light Whiskey became a thing in the late 60’s and early 70’s as a way for American whiskey producers […]
Read more "Review: High West 14 Year Light Whiskey"Back in November I received a sample of the Yellowstone Limited Edition and wrote it up, so if you are interested in my lazy attempt at explaining the history of the Yellowstone brand (as well as my thoughts on that expression), you can check that out. I’ll wait here why you do so… Welcome back! […]
Read more "Review: Yellowstone Select"I’ve been on a bit of a rye kick lately and realized that we didn’t have much in our collection, so we picked up a couple of things I’ve been wanting to try and instead of reviewing them one-by-one, I thought it might be fun to do a blind tasting since watching Kate do her bottom shelf […]
Read more "Blind Rye Showdown"Breaker Bourbon has been on my radar for a while. NDPs can be pretty frustrating with their sneaky marketing shit, and while Breaker is certainly no exception, for some reason I’ve been intrigued by their schtick. So when I saw a bottle during a recent trip I figured it was time I try it. Before […]
Read more "Review: Breaker Bourbon"“A late night spent tasting some of chef Edward Lee’s culinary creations led Trey to the idea that someone should blend a bourbon that would pair well with the bold flavors in chef Lee’s cookbook and other modern cuisine. Without hesitation, Trey and Ed set forth. The result is a blend with a spicy upfront […]
Read more "Review: Jefferson’s Chef’s Collaboration "Jefferson’s is a non-distiller producer (NDP) of bourbon. The company does not own a distillery, but buys aged bourbon from other producers and then blends the various barrels to produce a consistent product. “The Reserve is the perfect marriage of four different recipes of bourbon, one of which is an elder statesman. The result is […]
Read more "Review: Jefferson’s Reserve Oklahoma Barrel"First off, this isn’t the easiest bourbon in the world to figure out. We know that James E. Pepper was a real dude that used to make bourbon in the 1800s and we know the distillery he used is now the Woodford Reserve distillery. The brand made it to this side of prohibition, but was […]
Read more "Review: James E. Pepper 1776"35 Maple Street is a company based out of Sonoma, California that produces the Masterson’s line of Rye, Wheat, and Barley Canadian whiskeys. Bib & Tucker is the company’s first step into the bourbon business, and it’s a very interesting one. In an interview with WhiskyCast’s Mark Gillespie, 35 Maple Street’s COO Richard Zeller stated the juice being purchased […]
Read more "Review: Bib & Tucker"Before we get too far into how this stuff tastes, I would like to briefly ramble about something else given that this is the first bourbon reviewed on this site from a Non-Distiller Producer. One thing you learn when you start getting into bourbon is that everything on that shelf of your local liquor store was […]
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