For many craft distilleries, gin is a temporary means to an end. Gin doesn’t need to be matured prior to sale, which makes it an attractive spirit for new distilleries
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For many craft distilleries, gin is a temporary means to an end. Gin doesn’t need to be matured prior to sale, which makes it an attractive spirit for new distilleries
Continue readingSometimes, the choice of what bottles to review comes down to just walking the aisles in my local liquor store, checking out the bottles, and finding one that I’ve never
Continue readingChattanooga Whiskey is a smaller distillery that’s been slowly building positive word-of-mouth because they have (so far) put out good stuff at a reasonable price. Their 91 proof bourbon whiskey
Continue readingNot much beats a local distillery experience — especially when you can locally purchase different experiments and expressions that you might struggle to get your hands on otherwise. Still Austin
Continue readingOften, a tequila brand will put out three versions of agave-based spirit: a blanco, a reposado, and an anejo. (The holy trinity, if you will.) But really, the two ends
Continue readingWhenever I see something at my local liquor store that I’ve never heard of before and is prominently being pushed by the store as their “top pick”, I get a
Continue readingInternational Scotch Whisky Day is coming up on February 8th (not to be confused with National Scotch Whisky Day for those of us in the United States, which is on
Continue readingI live in Austin, so I’ve reviewed a lot of whiskey from the local area. I’ve done some pretty in-depth digging into some of the specifically Austin based distilleries, but
Continue readingOne of my top (personal) whiskey recommendations for friends and family is Tahwahkaro’s Four Grain Bourbon Whiskey. It’s been four years since I had my first drop, and it always
Continue readingCalling your bottle of spirits “Three Stars” is a bold move… but not necessarily a good idea. The immediate connotation is to the quality of the spirits — in which
Continue readingIn the process of running a spirits review site, we occasionally have to choose between bottles we know will get clicks and bottles we’re just plain interested in. This bottle
Continue readingI absolutely loved the original Assassin’s Creed when it came out. I thought the story was original, the gameplay was engaging, and setting the story during the Crusades was something
Continue readingToday we’re rounding out the product line of JAJA Tequila. We started with the youngest version (their blanco straight off the still), checked in with their middle aged reposado, and
Continue readingWhen we first tried JAJA Tequila back in 2021, we checked out their blanco version and stopped there. But since their new partnership with Proximo Spirits, things are looking up
Continue readingI love a good redemption story, and it sounds like that’s exactly what the folks at JAJA Tequila are working on. They launched their first version of their tequila in
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