By Kevin Gibson Five more whiskeys entered the running for Fred Minnick’s Best Whiskey of the Year this past weekend: Bardstown Bourbon Company Discovery Series Batch 2. Four Gate Batch 6 Finished Whiskey: This bourbon is finished in rum and cognac casks. Fred especially liked … Continue readingFour Gate, Larceny, Three Others Join Race for 2020’s Best Whiskey of the Year
This article originally appeared in Whisky Magazine in 2016. It takes a lot to run a bourbon distillery. You must acquire corn, rye or wheat, and barley, mill the grains, store them, then cook and ferment to create the rudimentary beer that is distilled and … Continue readingDistillery Heroes: They Fix Stills And Stuff
NOTE: I wrote this story in 2015, but the magazine I wrote it for wanted to go in another direction. So, I rewrote the story and it honestly was a better story for that publication. However, I rediscovered this unpublished piece the other day and … Continue readingWheated Bourbon Challenge: That One Time Old Rip Lost to An Everyday Bourbon
A few years ago, I was at retired Old Fitzgerald master distiller Ed Foote’s house and noticed a George Dickel poster. For the unknowing whiskey person, Foote was the perfect George Dickel poster child. I suppose it didn’t really matter that he didn’t make the … Continue readingFinally, George Dickel Seized The Moment