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JULY 22, 2024

We now know what this year’s Bourbon County Stout variants will be. Vanilla Rye is obviously a return to the near-iconic version released back in 2014 1 and Macaroon promises coconut, ginger and cocoa nibs, which sounds just fine to me. Hop Butcher’s Minted stout can continue on, free of competition. Or Andes Candy.

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Beer Stout Craft Beer Pub 246

VinePair

APRIL 9, 2024

Cask finishing is hardly new in the whiskey business. And yet, it’s nearly impossible to think of a rum brand that’s literally called out by name when used as a whiskey finishing barrel. Sachs, who didn’t want to simply source whiskey, but instead create a brand centered on provenance and transparency.

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Rum Whiskey Stout Wine 98

VinePair

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having observed American whiskey’s success, it didn’t take long for the duo to think up a whiskey brand of their own, which would riff on old bourbon-making traditions. In 2014, they set up shop across the parking lot from The Party Source to establish New Riff Distilling in Newport, Ky., and nothing comes from a small barrel.

Whiskey 105

Whiskey Liquor Gin Bottling 105

Good Spirits News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Then the blend was finished for a further 17 months in BFB Oxheart Stout barrels. The distillery which closed its doors in 1992 reopened in 2014 and this 22 year-old Kentucky straight bourbon was aged and bottled there. It’s aged in tequila-seasoned American oak ex-American whiskey barrels for 3 years. Bottled at 56.3%

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Tequila Whiskey Stout Bottling 55

VinePair

MARCH 1, 2024

We all know Pappy and the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection can fetch a fortune at the auction block, but there’s another purveyor of grailed whiskeys worth studying: Willett Distillery. It would be another 60 or so years, however, before the family would get into the whiskey business. Located in Bardstown, Ky. — Distillery.

Whiskey 105

Whiskey Promoter Promotion Bottling 105

Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

THE CABINET BARREL PROOF AMERICAN WHISKEY (2023 RELEASE) The Cabinet is a blend of straight rye and bourbon whiskeys from Proof & Wood Ventures. Each whiskey in the blend was distilled in Indiana and then aged, blended, and bottled in Kentucky. Also included are two straight bourbon whiskeys distilled in 2016 and 2017.

Stout 40

Stout Gin Whiskey Bottling 40