by Mike Rosen | Nov 27, 2022 | Bourbon
Rebel (previously Rebel Yell) was created by Charlie Farnsley in the late 1940s. Farnsley was a Kentucky politician who served in the KY House of Representatives, the US House of Representatives, mayor of Louisville and was the nephew of Alex T. Farnsley, one of the...
by Mike Rosen | Nov 23, 2022 | Bourbon
The history of Yellowstone bourbon is very old and involved, starting in 1872 to present day with a lot of changes along the way. If you want to do a deep dive the best source that I’ve found for the history of Yellowstone is from bourbonveach.com. I’ll pick it up in...
by Mike Rosen | Nov 22, 2022 | Rye
On the heels of Smoke Wagon’s 9 year high malted barley experimental rye, comes the small batch version using the same mash bill of 51% rye, 49% malted barley. The former were limited single barrel expressions using different char levels (barrels C – F)....
by Mike Rosen | Nov 3, 2022 | Bourbon
Creating Old Elk’s flagship bourbon was the first job that Greg Metze was tasked with when he came on board as master distiller. In an interview with Weekly Whiskey, Jay West and John Henderson interviewed Greg Metze and Old Elk’s CEO of Luis Gonzales. This is what...
by Mike Rosen | Oct 30, 2022 | Bourbon, Featured Craft Distilleries
Founded in 2009 by Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, Kings County is located in Brooklyn, NY at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To create their various whiskeys, Kings County uses a Forsyths alembic copper still built in Scotland and a Vendome copper still made in Kentucky....
