down to earth whisk(e)y reviews and points of view
LITTLE BOOK CHAPTER 3: THE ROAD HOME 2019 Limited Release MASH BILL – Undisclosed (rumored 77% corn, 13% rye, 10% barley) … Continue reading Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home (with some Booker’s 2018-04 on the side)
INVERGORDON 31-YEAR SiB CASK STRENGTH SCOTCH 2018 store pick from K&L MASH BILL – NAS (single grain scotch) PROOF – … Continue reading Invergordon 31-Year-Old Single Barrel Cask Strength Scotch
JEFFERSON’S RESERVE Very Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey MASH BILL – Unknown (rumored 60% corn, 30% rye, 10% malted barley) … Continue reading Jefferson’s Reserve
HOME BASE BOURBON Batch 11 (2019) blended from three New American Oak 30-gallon barrels, all Medium Char #3 MASH BILL … Continue reading Flight: Three Whiskeys From Home Base Spirits
OLD RIP VAN WINKLE 10 YEAR 2016 Bottling MASH BILL – Buffalo Trace Wheated Mash Bill PROOF – 107 AGE … Continue reading Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year, plus an Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year bottle kill!
My first encounter with Home Base Spirits was a batch of their namesake bourbon, which I picked up in 2016 … Continue reading Interview: Ali and Sam Blatteis / Home Base Spirits
BLANTON’S SINGLE BARREL Barrel #1587 bottled 9/12/18 MASH BILL – Buffalo Trace Mash Bill #2 (high-rye) PROOF – 93 AGE … Continue reading Comparison: Blanton’s Single Barrel / Blanton’s Straight From The Barrel
Truthiness and the Ethics of Marketing plus new notes on Bertie’s Bear Gulch Bourbon Whiskey is known for its stories, … Continue reading Good story. But is it good whiskey?
OLD GRAND DAD 86 Bottled in 1997 MASH BILL – 63% corn, 27% rye, 10% barley PROOF – 86 AGE … Continue reading Old (and I mean old) Grand Dad 86
TOM’S FOOLERY CASK STRENGTH BOURBON K&L Single Barrel #121 (2019) MASH BILL – 56% corn, 25% rye, 19% barley PROOF … Continue reading Revisiting: Tom’s Foolery Cask Strength Bourbon
FOUR ROSES BARREL STRENGTH SiB OBSK Selected by Bounty Hunter, Napa Valley, CA, 2016 MASH BILL – 60% corn, 35% … Continue reading Four Roses Barrel Strength Single Barrel OBSK
I believe we should. I’ve come to appreciate how whiskey is a conversation starter, an enabler of new understandings. It’s other things … Continue reading Disputing Taste
