There’s a lot of wordage used in classifying the types of American whiskeys known as Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey. The following list helps to make sense of the often-perplexing terminology: Sour mash whiskey: Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey aren’t blended; they’re classified as “straight whiskey.” That makes maintaining a consistency of flavor difficult from one distillation [...]
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There’s a lot about making bourbon that we don’t understand, but we do know that the barrels are a big deal. The unique flavors of bourbon come from the barrels. Without aging the liquor in a charred oak barrel, all you have is a clear liquid spirit – fermented grain that is distilled. The barrel, how the barrel is [...]
Distilleries are cutting corners to speed up the process of making whiskey. Will the industry suffer? The biggest obstacle a new whiskey distiller has to overcome is time. Simply turning yeast, water, and grain into alcohol is a relatively speedy process, but maturing a product in oak barrels to get something you can call whiskey [...]
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These are the names that make up bourbon’s illustrious pedigree. Evan Williams is considered Kentucky’s first distiller, according to legend, Williams set up his stills on the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville in 1783. Rev. Elijah Craig was a late-1700s Baptist preacher, teacher and distiller, often (but erroneously) credited as the inventor of [...]
Bourbon Barrel Rolling. Boy do they men of the Kentucky Bourbon distilleries take their work seriously. Competitive bourbon barrel rolling. Above, Jim Beam Distilleries employee Clifford Harris starts the first barrel into the rick as his team won the team competition in the mens division during the annual WAABI Charity Barrel Roll to benefit the Hospice of [...]
Hammerstone’s Hard Lemonade Summer is close at hand. There’s always got to be one drink in the back of your mind; a drink you can make at a moments notice. Because it’s going to be sticky – you know it. There’ll be days when you need to turn the tide. There’ll be muggy afternoons when [...]
Jim Beam Devil’s Cut No sympathy for the devil, once you see his cut. As bourbon ages, a portion of the liquid is lost from the barrel due to evaporation—that’s the “Angel’s Share.” After aging, when the bourbon is dumped out of the barrel, a certain amount of whiskey is left trapped within the wood [...]
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