Jefferson’s whiskey, the creator of the modern “aged at sea” bourbons and ryes, has pulled into port in New York City with a deliciously clever new gimmick: using NYC water to proof their whiskey. The new Jefferson’s Ocean Aged at Sea® New York Limited Edition is a standard ocean-aged whiskey for the distillery’s portfolio, but …
If you’re new to the whiskey world, you might have noticed a phrase found on some expressions of bourbon (and even some other whiskeys). The phrase is “bottled-in-bond.” If you purchased some of these bottles, you might assume it simply means that said expression is higher in alcohol than most. That’s because bottled-in-bond bourbons are …
Buffalo Trace capped off the bourbon world’s 2020 rare releases with one of the quirkiest bottles we’ve seen in years: Buffalo Trace 1980. It’s actually one of three rare spirits released within Last Drop Distillers’ “2020 Autumn Collection.” The rare spirits brand is owned by Sazerac, the same parent company as Buffalo Trace distillery. It’s …
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Daylight saving time is here, its unwelcome bags stuffed with 5 p.m. sunsets and a potential sales pitch for breweries. Dark days deserve dark beers. It’s marketing magic for imperial stouts, those boozy heavyweights swinging haymakers filled with coffee and cocoa, decadent sips for cranking our internal thermostats. And fall’s most ballyhooed bruisers are Goose …
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Buffalo Trace has another Blanton’s surprise for the U.S. market coming later this year: It’s bringing another international-only expression of the beloved bourbon to the domestic market with Blanton’s Straight From the Barrel. Straight from the Barrel (colloquially known as SFTB) is an uncut and unfiltered version of the whiskey Americans typically know as a …
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Old Forester’s 2020 release of its much-beloved Birthday Bourbon is just days away. This year’s bottle is one of the more unusual releases in recent years, and we’re surprised to say that that is a very good thing. Birthday Bourbon, as it’s commonly known, is released every year to commemorate the birthday of Old Forester …
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It took Angel’s Envy‘s Kyle Henderson half a decade of asking around, working the phones, and crossing his fingers to finally get his hands on just a handful of Japanese Mizunara oak casks. “It took a good five years from the concept to actually getting ahold of the barrels and getting them to the U.S.,” …
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