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Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour® Welcomes Peerless, Hartfield & Co. Distilleries

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Distillers’ Association today announced that Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. in Louisville and Hartfield & Co. Distillery in Paris are the two newest members of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour®. A total of 10 micro distilleries now comprise the tourism adventure that was founded in 2012 to complement the KDA’s […]

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WhistlePig Opens New Distillery in Vermont

WhistlePig is proud to announce the opening of its brand-new distillery in a converted 100-year-old barn on the WhistlePig Farm in Shoreham, Vermont. The distillery will make WhistlePig one of the few American whiskey companies to conduct the entire whiskey-making process in one place, from harvesting the rye fields to distilling, barreling, aging, and bottling […]

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Barrell Bourbon Batch 005 Review

Name: Barrell Bourbon Batch 005 ABV: 62.35% Proof: 124.7 Nose: Vanilla, Maple Syrup, Molasses, Oak Palate: Dry Oak, Smoke, Cherries, Dark Chocolate Finish: Moderate with a slight spice flavor and sweet maple syrup Overall: This review is specifically for Barrell Bourbon batch number 005 bottle number 4577. The nose is a mixture of vanilla, maple syrup, and molasses with a hint of  a light wood […]

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Sugarlands Distilling Company Partners with Lost Spirits to Design Rye Whiskey

Sugarlands Distilling Company, crafters of award-winning moonshine in the Smoky Mountains, has entered a research and development phase with Lost Spirits in California to complement their newly announced Whiskey Project. Lost Spirits recently unveiled a portable aging reactor, called THEA One. THEA One offers a revolutionary, state of the art way of designing and engineering […]

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Diageo Unveils Contemporary New Packaging for Buchanan’s Scotch Whisky

Buchanan’s, the award-winning Scotch whisky, introduces new packaging for three of its four blends: Buchanan’s DeLuxe™, Buchanan’s Master™ and Buchanan’s Special Reserve™. Buchanan’s Red Seal™ will follow in 2016. Buchanan’s is the largest premium Scotch brand in Latin America and has experienced ten-year double-digit growth in the U.S. while doubling its share over the past […]

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Baltimore Bang Recipe

1 1/2 ounces bourbon 1 1/2 ounces apricot brandy 1 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/2 tsp sugar orange slice and cherry for garnish Pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange slice and cherry. Enjoy!

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Proof Maple Bacon Old Fashioned Cocktail Syrup

Drink: Proof Maple Bacon Old Fashioned Cocktail Syrup is made by combining hickory smoked organic cane sugar with a unique blend oleo saccharums which is then mixed in the smokiest bacon and rich, authentic maple syrup. The resulting syrup is great for crafting excellent cocktails at home and specifically ones that will impress your guest. Proof is crafted in Decatur, […]

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Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails

Books: In Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail adds another 20 fine recipes to his hand-picked collection of 80 rare-and-worth-rediscovered drink recipes, shares revelations about the latest cocktail trends, provides new resources for uncommon ingredients, and profiles of many of the cocktail world’s movers and shakers. Historic facts, expanded anecdotes, […]

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Diageo Launches Studebaker, a New Line of Bottled Whisky Cocktails

      STUDEBAKER™ is proud to announce a premium and new-to-world product line of bottled whisky cocktails including STUDEBAKER™ Old Fashioned and STUDEBAKER™ Manhattan, replicating a unique and extraordinary taste of cocktail history for a new generation. During the days of Prohibition (1919-1933), Canadian Whisky boomed in the United States, as whisky that had […]

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MAKER’S MARK® INTRODUCES MAKER’S MARK PRIVATE SELECT BARREL PROGRAM

MAKER’S MARK® INTRODUCES MAKER’S MARK PRIVATE SELECT BARREL PROGRAM First-of-its-Kind Experience Allows Retail Customers To Create Custom Maker’s Mark® Expressions Using Personally Selected Oak Staves for Finishing Loretto, KY (October 6, 2015) – Maker’s Mark® is bringing real innovation to the bourbon industry with a first-of-its-kind barrel program, Maker’s Mark Private SelectTM. The new experience […]

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