We reviewed Solan Number One about a year ago, and it has consistently been one of our most popular reviews to date. For good reason — it’s delicious, inexpensive, and off the beaten path in terms of whisky regions. It opened my eyes a bit to the possibilities of Indian whisky and I wanted to explore what other gems might be hiding in that less traveled section of the liquor store.
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I like cigars. I like brown spirits. So it goes without saying that a combination of the two — a barrel aged cigar — sounds pretty awesome to me. Camacho has released a couple versions of barrel aged cigar, and in this case it’s the Nicaraguan version that takes a more Caribbean approach to the format.
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WhistlePig is a name that I’ve heard before, but not one that I’ve had a lot of experience with. Their products are normally a little out of my price range, making it something I usually reserve for special occasions. However, their latest release is a direct target at consumers like me. This release, dubbed PiggyBack, is a whiskey that is designed from the ground up to be a more approachable (read: affordable) spirit, while also serving as a love note to their late Master Distiller.
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Usually, neutral grain spirits are an ingredient to be hidden, ashamed of even, in a whiskey bottle. It’s commonly used as filler, a cheap alternative to properly aged and produced whiskey that companies add to make their expensive stock go further. But in Pure Proof Grain Neutral Spirits, that’s all you’re getting — and they’re being loud and proud about it. It seems like a strange approach, and naturally we needed to investigate and find out whether we’d been missing out this whole time.
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I’ve been hearing about Jim Beam’s Devil’s Cut bourbon for years, thanks to a major marketing push when it was first launched on the market. I never took the time to actually try it out, though.
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When we think of whiskey and the United Kingdom, most of us immediately think of Scotland with its long and storied history with the spirit. But surprisingly, the UK’s oldest distillery still in operation is located on a completely different island just across the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland hosts the oldest distillery in the country and today we’re checking out Black Bush, one of their most well-regarded products.
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There’s a current trend of flavored liqueur being made from bourbon. In some cases, the results are pretty good… but, on the whole, they mainly seem to be trying to follow in Fireball’s footsteps to capture that same market. American Honey is Wild Turkey’s take on the category, so today we’re giving it a spin to see how it stacks up — not only against its flavored liqueur peers, but against it’s bourbon origins as well.
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Corn whiskey is a legally defined variety of whiskey that was once large and in charge among the American drinking public. Its popularity has waned over the years, but some think that it’s poised for a comeback. The gold standard of that variety is Mellow Corn, a Heaven Hill spirit that has stood the test of time.
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Bulleit Bourbon is a great “middle of the road” bourbon: something that has all of the traditional qualities (but nothing more) at just the right price point. But what happens when you take that mediocre bourbon and stick it in a barrel for a full decade? Is the result an above-and-beyond masterpiece, or a longer-than-necessary mediocre spirit?
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Whiskey is an inherently risky product for business. It’s a business where you need to predict years in advance what your supply will be and then invest a ton of money in facilities and materials… only to have your product literally sit on the shelf for a couple years before you can even sell it. Austin 101 Light Whiskey thinks that with the help of the Texas weather, they can get that cycle time down to just 101 days.
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