My new Halloween tradition is ranking every Goose Island BCS Stout, but my new Election Day follow-up (and boy did the nation need a collective drink from that one) is getting to be reviewing the Buffalo Trace Antique collection. This year isn’t my favorite of the three that I’ve tried, but that’s not to say … Read more
Let’s take a trip to Kentucky! I did, and there I got a full tour of the grounds of the Maker’s Mark distillery, including their very cool mushroom farm, apiary, and solar fields mowed by free-range sheep. It’s my second distillery tour in the Bluegrass State, and both times I have been so impressed by … Read more
Yo, real quick: I drank the most desirable whiskeys of the year on an adventure that lives so fondly in my mind, I might have just completed my bourbon bucket list. Ne plus ultra when the people around you are making Old Fashioneds out of Pappy Van Winkle 20-year. It all culminated in drinking the … Read more
Boy, this one was special. I got to attend the first press event for the release of Daniel Weller Emmer Wheat. I’ve loved Weller pretty much since my buddy Eric put me onto it, and was probably the last man in America to pick up a bottle for under $50. I understand the brand’s changing … Read more
*So far Me: drinking bourbon! You: reading about that! Here is a round-up of some great stuff I’ve tried, plus a few I only dream about but trust to enjoy off the words of my betters. Tasting Table: publishing that! Anyway, now you have all the preparation you need to read about the best bourbons … Read more
