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Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve
Bourbon Review

Bourbon Review: Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve

Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve Aged 9 years comes to us from Knob Creek Distilling Company which was founded in 1992 by Booker Noe, a seventh-generation member of the Beam family. Noe was inspired to create Knob Creek after tasting a bottle of pre-Prohibition bourbon that his grandfather had saved. He wanted to create a bourbon that was similar in flavor and character to that old bottle. Noe began by experimenting with different mash bills […]

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Whiskey House Kentucky
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Press Release: Whiskey House of Kentucky Begins Production at Industry Transforming Distillery

Whiskey House of Kentucky (Whiskey House), the newest and most advanced distillery in the United States, announced operations officially began yesterday, July 1, as initially projected. Located on a 176-acre campus in the T.J. Patterson Elizabethtown Hardin County Industrial Park, Whiskey House is the most sophisticated, technically advanced producer of custom bourbon, rye, and American whiskey in the United States For more information, visit www.whiskeyhouse.com. Whiskey House was initially founded in 2022 by David Mandell, […]

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Barman 1873 Bourbon
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Bourbon Review: Barmen 1873 Bourbon

Barmen 1873 is made by Coors Whiskey Co., yes, that Coors. It all started 20 years ago when David Coors turned to his Dad and asked, “Why don’t we make whiskey?” His Dad would respond, “Because we’re good at one thing, and that’s beer.” In many families that would be the end of the discussion, but David didn’t stop there. A nearly two decade journey led to the creation of Coors Whiskey Co. After four […]

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Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon
Bourbon Review

Bourbon Review: Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey (Rick 20)

Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey. It’s a bottle I could swear I have reviewed here on The Barrel Burner in the past. But as it turns out, we have only review Blanton’ Straight From the Barrel. These two bottles have something in common, I won them in the New Hampshire Stare Liquor Mafia Lottery. You see, here in New Hampshire the state makes this bottle and many other allocated bottles only available twice a year, […]

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Old Bardstown
Bourbon Review

Bourbon Review: Old Bardstown

Old Bardstown comes from The Willett Distillery which is known for their self named bourbon as well as Rowans Creek and Noah’s Mill. This week I went to the horrible state run liquor store with the mindset I wanted to find something of value and made in Kentucky. Here in New Hampshire that has become a chore as the shelves are filled with very little Kentucky bourbon and lots of items made elsewhere. Todays review […]

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Bradshaw Bourbon
Bourbon Review

Bourbon Review: Bradshaw Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Bradshaw Kentucky Straight Bourbon sitting on our shelf on the bar since the Super Bowl when we purchased it for the game. What better than a bourbon from 4x Super Bowl winner Terry Bradshaw. Not a knock on my childhood hero by any means, but this is what we were stuck with on the shelf here in New Hampshire the week of the Super Bowl. The biggest enemy of this website is the New Hampshire […]

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Michter's Rye
Rye Review

Press Release: Michter’s Releasing Limited Edition Barrel Proof Rye

A few months after becoming the first American whiskey to be named The World’s Most Admired Whiskey by a 2023 vote of an international academy of voters announced by UK based Drinks International, Michter’s is releasing its limited edition US*1 Barrel Strength Kentucky Straight Rye. The last bottling of this whiskey took place in 2022. “I am excited that our Master Distiller Dan McKee and our Master of Maturation Andrea Wilson felt that this whiskey […]

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