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Back in October, over MEA (a teacher's conference) when school's out, we visited Maryland and saw some friends. I packed a couple samples...

A couple friends and I spent last weekend in Nashville, there to see the Vikings play the Titans. It was the first time in Music City for...

I'd been back and forth on whether to do another whiskey comparison before resuming more intimate looks at individual bottles, or...

One of the fastest growing segments of American whiskey is perhaps not what you'd think. Spirits made predominantly from corn (see:...

I've been struggling with what whiskey post to do next, mostly thinking it would be another individual bottle. Then I realized I had...

If, like me, you frequently browse the whiskey selection in liquor stores, you've probably noticed a brand called Barrell. They have a...

It's dry January and I don't plan on a bottle review this month. So it's a good time to resume teaching, and learning, about what goes...

A lot of the whiskey I've written up comes from the big-name distilleries and producers, and I've wanted to branch out a little more,...

We're Costco people now, and are just over a year into having a membership. I usually go once a week to buy at least a handful of things...

There's a dwindling bottle in the cupboard that hasn't been written up yet, so it's time for a review. I'd gone back and forth on whether...

It wasn't that long ago Buffalo Trace was a readily available, quality Bourbon you could grab for <$30. That's how it was when I started...

As I pointed out in my Bourbon Trail post , my biggest takeaway from our Kentucky trip is my newfound fandom of Bardstown Bourbon...

Two weekends ago we crossed something off our bucket list, visiting the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. The impetus for the trip was our 10th...

Time for another whiskey, and it's a fun one. I'd already been wondering how Whistlepig, a little distillery in Vermont, rose to such...

A friend of mine asked recently how many bottles of whiskey I have open right now. I guessed a little low it turns out. The question,...

My last whiskey post was about Old Forester , a brand made by beverage conglomerate Brown-Forman since its beginning. The topic today,...

Another big gap in American whiskey is anything and everything from the Brown-Forman Corporation . An American spirits company founded in...

Somehow it's been almost a year since I've written up a Bourbon. Yikes. A goal that's developed here is to cover the preeminent whiskey...

I'm very happy to finally publish this list. Since creating the original recommendations post I've been puzzling over the tier above...

I bought a bottle of High West Rendezvous Rye back when I was accumulating bottles for 'research' purposes earlier this year. The goal...