by Mike Rosen | Jun 28, 2024 | Bourbon, Featured Craft Distilleries
While in Austin, TX, in late February, I stopped by Still Austin for a Sunday distillery tour. I enjoyed the tour, tasted their flagship releases, and learned I couldn’t buy alcohol in Texas on a Sunday. The tour guide mentioned that Still Austin was releasing their...
by Mike Rosen | Jun 14, 2024 | Bourbon
Happy National Bourbon Day! A year ago today, I reviewed the Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Batch Proof 2023 release. In that review and now this one, Woodford’s Master Distiller, Elizabeth McCall, answered my questions about their Batch Proof releases. The main...
by Mike Rosen | Jun 10, 2024 | Bourbon
Jacob’s Well Batch 2 (211) is part of the ongoing Hardin’s Creek series of annual releases featuring rare and unique whisky from the James Beam Distillery. A May 2022 Hardin’s Creek press release said, “Each set of releases will showcase the breadth and depth of the...
by Mike Rosen | May 15, 2024 | Rye
In 2010, Woodinville Whiskey was established in Woodinville, Washington, by Orlin Sorensen & Brett Carlile. Best friends since college, Brett, and Orlin often talked about starting a business together and, in 2009, set a plan in motion to open a distillery in the...
by Mike Rosen | May 7, 2024 | World
Hell Diver is the second release in the Found North High Altitude Collection. While every Found North release begins with well-aged individual grain Canadian whisky, the difference between the High Altitude Collection and Found North’s flagship Batch releases is how...
