The word is out. Pappy Van Winkle 25 Year is coming soon, but…here’s the bad news — just 710 bottles of the once-in-a-lifetime bottle of liquid sunshine will be sent to retailers. So as Vito Corleone would say: fuhgeddaboudit! But at least you’ll save a cool $1800 by forgoing the buy. And for secondary buyers…who the hell knows […]
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Yes, Bourbon is so much more than good drinkin’. It is also boosting Kentucky’s Bourbon industry to new heights. In the last two years, Bourbon has added $1 billion in revenues and 2,000 distillery-related jobs into Kentucky. Each year, the only native American spirit generates $8.5 billion for the state’s economy. But that’s not all,
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This week Katelyn Best of the Whiskey Wash took on the subject of swirling whiskey. If you came over to the Bourbon tasting world from the Wine tasting world, you might believe this is an essential part of tasting whiskey. Plus, it makes you look and feel sophisticated, like a real Whiskey snob. But the question
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My beloved (and consistently loserish) Atlanta Falcons made it to the Super Bowl this week so I thought I would talk a little Football and Bourbon, with a smattering of the new President thrown in. All three “hot” subjects were recently covered in in this article on former Ravens standout Ray Lewis. Yes, everyone is getting
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“You can make bourbon anywhere but, if you want to sell it, you better damn well make it in Kentucky.” ~ Parker Beam, Heaven Hill Master Distiller Emeritus, 1941-2017 You — like me — probably got introduced to the name Beam and Bourbon in high school or college with Jim Beam’s Standard White Label. That’s
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