Bourbon

Burnt Tavern Hosts Launch Event in Louisville

October 24, 2025

Named for a twice burned and rebuilt tavern in Garrard County, Kentucky, Burnt Tavern Bourbon hosted a launch event Thursday...

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Wheated Bourbon Challenge: That One Time Old Rip Lost to An Everyday Bourbon

March 30, 2020

NOTE: I wrote this story in 2015, but the magazine I wrote it for wanted to go in another direction....

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October 2, 2018

Does age matter? I’m the first whiskey writer to complain when a bourbon drops an age statement. Just ask Heaven...

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March 7, 2018

A few years ago, I was at retired Old Fitzgerald master distiller Ed Foote’s house and noticed a George Dickel...

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October 20, 2017

In American whiskey, distillers have this odd desire to say they were the first with something. “We were the first...

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February 22, 2017

A few years ago, I raved about Forecastle’s Bourbon Lodge. I still think it’s the best festival for bourbons to...

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May 1, 2015

With a beautiful blue sky backdrop, Diageo officials, the Louisville and Shively mayors, Tom Bulleit and several Pappy Van Winkle...