What Fresh Whiskey Hell Is This? Lifestyle By Chuck Cowdery / August 11, 2017 If you hate these products, blame Sazerac’s phenomenally successful Fireball, another whiskey/liqueur mixture. Continue reading > 1 Shares
The Death of The Brand Ambassador Lifestyle By Chuck Cowdery / August 10, 2017 If ‘the next generation of brand ambassadors’ is really the next generation of brand-aware salespeople, there is nothing wrong with that. Just don’t pretend it is something else. Continue reading > 0 Shares
The 157-Year History of Early Times Kentucky Whisky American By Chuck Cowdery / August 3, 2017 Early Times Kentucky Whisky doesn’t get much hype, and it’s not even technically bourbon, but its history is as rich and Beam-filled as many other bigger bourbon brands. Continue reading > 3 Shares
Beam Suntory Opens a New Book American By Chuck Cowdery / July 27, 2017 The next step in Freddie Noe’s ascension is a new whiskey brand called Little Book. It will be an annual, limited-release series, and it is not a bourbon. It is a blend. Continue reading > 19 Shares
There Are Blends and There Are American Whiskey Blends American By Chuck Cowdery / July 24, 2017 The American definition of ‘blended whiskey’ is unique and not quite what you think it might be. Continue reading > 2 Shares
Utah’s Zion Curtain Typical Of How Silly American Booze Is Regulated Lifestyle By Chuck Cowdery / July 5, 2017 With alcohol, the United States has 50 different markets. That complexity and inefficiency is built into the price of every alcoholic beverage you buy. Continue reading > 2 Shares
Is This New Bottle Design Too Much Like Bulleit? Diageo Thinks So Bourbon By Chuck Cowdery / June 8, 2017 Diageo files a lawsuit against a rival whiskey company over claims a new bottle design was “revised to closely mimic” the appearance its popular Bulleit brand. Continue reading > 9 Shares
Milestones of the Bourbon Boom: A Decade of Whiskey Greatness Bourbon By Chuck Cowdery / May 30, 2017 In 2016, almost two million barrels of bourbon were laid down in Kentucky. It wasn’t always this way. Relive the bourbon bust and subsequent boom with a timeline of major milestones in the American whiskey industry. Continue reading > 276 Shares
Do the Stitzels Get Too Much Credit for Modern Wheated Bourbon? Lifestyle By Chuck Cowdery / May 23, 2017 How much influence exactly did the original Stitzel-Weller distillery have on the creation of wheated bourbon? Continue reading > 5 Shares
Quietly, Kentucky’s Legislature Tightens the Definition of ‘Kentucky Bourbon’ Bourbon By Chuck Cowdery / March 12, 2017 A new ‘vintage spirits’ law in Kentucky has rules which get all the attention, but it includes several other revisions to Kentucky’s basic law regulating alcoholic beverages. Continue reading > 0 Shares
Old Grand-Dad 114 Gets Renewed Lease On Life, For Now Bourbon By Chuck Cowdery / February 15, 2017 Rumors out there for awhile suggested the Old Grand-Dad 114 bourbon was going away. There’s no truth to that for the time being, as shipments of this whiskey will resume shortly. Continue reading > 0 Shares
Among The Big Whiskey Fish, the Appetite for Little Craft Whiskey Fish Is Growing American Bourbon By Chuck Cowdery / January 31, 2017 Craft whiskey acquisitions are heating up. What does that mean for the industry? Continue reading > 3 Shares
