Kaiyō Japanese Mizunara Cask Strength Whisky

Kaiyō Japanese Mizunara Cask Strength Whisky

Kaiyō is an independent bottler that purchases whisky from Japanese producers, then ages and bottles them under the Kaiyō label. In this case barrels of Japanese single malt were purchased from an unknown distillery and then “teaspooned” (blended with a small amount...
Calumet Farm Citation 16 Year Single Rack Black

Calumet Farm Citation 16 Year Single Rack Black

This expression from Calumet Farm is named after a famous  thoroughbred who won the Triple Crown in 1948. Citation was the first horse to win 16 races in a row and the first to earn one million dollars in prize money. Hence being named the latest in the Calumet...
Early Times Bottled-In-Bond

Early Times Bottled-In-Bond

Early Times is a very old brand that dates back to 1860, founded by by John Henry “Jack” Beam, the paternal uncle of Jim Beam. Seven years after Jack Beam’s passing in 1923, Owsley Brown (of Brown-Foreman) purchased the Early Times brand and aging barrels to sell as...
Bardstown Bourbon Company West Virginia Great Barrel Co.

Bardstown Bourbon Company West Virginia Great Barrel Co.

Today I’m reviewing a Bardstown Bourbon Company release that has been popping up online and recently at my local store. This is the first collaboration between the Bardstown Bourbon Company and a cooperage. In this collaboration, custom barrels were built by West...
ASW Fiddler Amburana Finished Bourbon

ASW Fiddler Amburana Finished Bourbon

ASW is an Atlanta GA based distillery that use a combination of sourced MGP wheated bourbon and/or their own high malt bourbon for their Fiddler line of bourbon whiskey. The bottle I’m reviewing today is a sourced 4 year single barrel MGP wheated bourbon that was...