Taster’s Tips

From east to west, these bourbon rankings are best (in different categories, of course). Considering Kentucky’s bourbon distilleries filled around 2.1 million barrels of bourbon last year, there’s a lot of bourbon in the United States to try. We’ve made it easier for you by selecting 5 bourbons for you to choose from (although we recommend trying all 5!).

This Pumpkin Spice Milkshake is perfect for the Holiday season, starting with Halloween and going all the way through Christmas. With the addition of Breckenridge Bourbon, it will take the edge off of any event you may have to attend. Share it with your friends and family, or keep the goodness all to yourself, it’s up to you!

Bourbon has never been more popular than it is right now. In fact, it’s becoming difficult to even find quality bourbon outside of Kentucky these days. What’s more impressive, though, is people travel from all fifty states to do private barrel selections at Four Roses in Cox’s Creek, Kentucky. Private barrel selections allow individuals – often representing stores, bars and barrel clubs – to select a their favorite barrel(s) from the distillery for their own private bottling that will bear their own name alongside that of the producing distillery.

Just getting to know whiskey? You’re in the right place. You, like those lucky souls who haven’t yet seen the original Star Wars series or discovered the wonders of fancy cheese, have so much to look forward to.

The whiskey-making process is long, tedious, and precise. It’s a process that varies slightly by region, but each distillery passes down its secrets from family to family, generation after generation, refining their techniques over time while preserving traditions. From growing the ingredients to shipping out a matured bottle, the entire process can take a couple of years or decades. This post will explore the ingredients used to make whiskey and the manufacturing process from malting to bottling.

Fall is approaching and that means warm desserts, time with family and friends and rich flavors! Cooking with Bourbon adds a unique twist to any dish that you’re making and we wanted to share an amazing Peach Bourbon Pie with Bacon Brown Sugar Crumble from Food For My Family. Is your mouth already watering? We figured.

You arrive to the latest gathering with your friends and you notice something a little different. The table is full of smaller bottles and tulip shaped glasses with stubby stems instead of the usual wine glasses. Once the golden liquid is poured into your glass, the smell is overwhelming, but in a delightfully overwhelming way. Sniff, swirl, swish and swallow. You’re enjoying this.

Boston Harbor Distillery founder and CEO Rhonda Kallman is no stranger to the drinks industry. This trailblazing entrepreneur was one of the original founding members of the Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams Beer, and later went on to found and lead New Century Brewing Company.

There’s no getting around it: Seattle’s a long way from Scotland. Yet one sip of Westland Distillery’s award-winning single malt, and you could be forgiven for thinking you’d slipped into a wormhole that leads from SoDo straight to Islay.

Bootlegging stories are a dime a dozen in the craft spirits industry. But let’s be honest, many of them are a little…stale. It’s neat when a distiller’s great-great-grandpa was running whisky across Lake Michigan or smuggling rum from the Caribbean to Miami, but come on guys: It’s been almost a century since Prohibition.

Upstate New York might share a state with that big city to the south, but the rural land outside of Rochester, New York, feels a million miles away from the Big Apple. Instead of finance and show tunes, these towns and villages were built on a foundation of agriculture and manufacturing—and when major factories in the region started to close, residents began to worry that their communities’ vitality would dwindle, too.

Yep, this post is about the comedy. Kind of. Groundhog Day is a modern classic, not just because it’s funny and sweet, but because it’s thought-provoking. What would you do if you could live the same day over and over?