Category: Spirits

This has been a holy grail bottle for me for years. I started this website in 2018, and in the entire time since, Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch has been

I absolutely love a good hefeweizen. My all-time favorite is the Live Oak HefeWeizen from Live Oak Brewing in Austin, Texas – it’s that perfect combination of crisp, refreshing, citrus-forward

In case you haven’t been following our latest reviews, I bought several holiday / winter themed bottles last November with every intention of writing them up as a proper Christmas

I bought this bottle last November, along with a couple of other seasonal spirits, fully intending to write the whole batch up as a Christmas feature. Then I procrastinated. Around

I bought three holiday themed bottles of alcoholic liquid last November with every intention of doing a proper Christmas feature. Then I procrastinated too much, and missed the holiday. So

There’s a particular kind of decision you make when you’re about to leave town for a few days — the kind where you’re standing in the liquor store with a

When I picked up four bottles from Distillery 291 on that hiking trip through Colorado Springs this spring, this was the one I bought with someone else in mind. My

Of the four bottles I picked up from Distillery 291 during a hiking trip to Colorado Springs in May 2026, this is the one that made me do a double

I have this argument with my wife quite frequently: where, exactly, is the line for “upstate” New York? Growing up in Westchester County, my opinion was that anything north of

Barrel finishing is a practice almost as old as whiskey itself: the art of taking a spirit, throwing it in a barrel that used to hold some other equally delicious

There are some trails that reward you with a view, and some that reward you with sore calves and the kind of tiredness that makes a good drink feel earned.

In my review of Journeyman’s Featherbone Bourbon, I mentioned that I had needed a box when leaving the distillery because one bottle wasn’t going to cut it. After starting with

Celebrity spirits are a dime a dozen these days — and we’ve reviewed more than a few of them here. Every actor, musician, and retired athlete with a publicist and