Jim Beam Devil’s Cut with Krystal, Dan, Ryan, Alex & Eddie
On the eve of the good day, we tried a bad bourbon. A bad bourbon with very good marketing. If the label and media is to be believed, there are […]
ScotchParty Review #2 – Four Roses Small Batch with Dan, Ashley, Ryan, Goran & Bowick
Review Number 2 from The Night Of Many Whiskies. If you look closely in the photo to the left there’s a see-thru gun and a pump bottle of Purel on […]
Baker’s 7y Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Dan & Ryan
Number three of the Beam Small Batch Bourbon Collection, Baker’s 7y doesn’t disappoint. We’ve been pretty solidly pro for the Basil Hayden and Knob Creek, and this bottle pulls its […]
Phillips Union Whiskey Kentucky Straight Bourbon/Canadian Whisky with Dan
This is the last refugee of my quick trip to Saint John, New Brunswick, and the second of what we’re calling Transnational Blends. If Three Ships was a curious rendezvous […]
Jim Beam Original Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Ryan & Goran
Sometimes there isn’t much to say about a bourbon. Allegedly Jim Beam is the world’s best selling bourbon, oops, sorry, “Number 1” bourbon. “Best selling” is something that could be […]
Wild Turkey 81 Kentucky Straight Bourbon with Dan
Back in bourbon country. I am developing a fondness for the matured southern dram, that’s for sure. Wild Turkey 81 is… getting there. I wasn’t blown away, but there was […]
Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Dan
Yay! More bourbon! Weird name tho, I don’t know how you trace a buffalo. This appears to be a case of giving the marketing people free license – Buffalo Trace […]
Make’r Easy with Mom, Dad & Dev – Beyond The Pale Part 4 of 3
Last week Beyond The Pale tweeted that they were releasing a Maker’s Mark cask-aged version of their Easy brew at noon on Saturday. I was out front at about quarter-to […]
Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky with Trevor & Steph (part 2 of An Evening Beyond The Pale)
If you’re going to taste a couple of beers, and then taste those same beers after they’ve been aged in Maker’s Mark bourbon barrels, it makes a little sense to, […]
Elijah Craig 12y Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Dan & Alex
Another case of a splash of water making all the difference. And it’s another case of a slightly overproofed spirit. It’s possible that my tongue has become accustomed to the […]
Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey with Dan
Another bourbon! Bulleit is a Diageo brand, allegedly based on a 150 year old recipe that includes rye and barley malt in the make. It is not a particularly complicated […]
Basil Hayden’s 8y Kentucky Straight Bourbon with Dan
Staying in the USA for a little bit. The lineage here is a bit thick: Basil Hayden’s only web presence is as part of The Original Small Batch Bourbon Collection […]
Knob Creek 9y Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with The Dan
My buddy and previous guest reviewer Jono brought this back from one of his trips to the States. Dan and I tucked into it and here’s what we thought. smell […]
Labrot & Graham Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with The Dan
I have been looking at this bottle for a year or so now, humming and hawing over trying bourbon while I’m still figuring out scotch. Dan and I figured it […]
