Jeptha Creed have quite an array of products but the tastings here are going to concentrate on the vodka and whiskey that is just 6 months old. The whiskey gives a really good feel for the direction Jeptha are going in and the vodka gives a really good indication of the quality of product they […]
Meeting up with Joyce Nethery at Jeptha Creed Distillery there’s one word that comes to mind and that is warmth. We walked around the facility here and there is a real sense of what they, as a family, are trying to build, with a field to bottle ethos running through what they do. Joyce exudes […]
Peerless has certainly had a flying start with it’s Straight Rye whiskey. The only craft producer in Whisky Advocate 2017 top 20 whiskies is certainly going some and I was lucky enough to try the this Straight Rye along with a Rye Single Barrel Select. The Rye barrel select tends to one of Peerless’s three pillars- […]
Louisville is famous for a number of things, Mohammad Ali, the Louisville Slugger baseball bat and as a centre of the Bourbon industry. Peerless Distilling is little more than a home run hit away from the Louisville Slugger factory and is certainly one of the new kids on the block, well kind of. Peerless actually […]
A common number that gets bandied around is that roughly 60% of flavour in whisky can come from the barrel. The conditions the spirit is kept in, the surface area to volume ratio, the type of barrel and wood, how long the spirit stays in there, all apply a significant role in the taste and […]
Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) teamed up with their friends over at Copper and Kings to create a couple of great products and highlight the benefits of drawing on each other’s strengths. I guess it really shows what the BBCo approach is all about. Collabor&tion starts with 10 yr old straight bourbon that has been specifically […]
Sometimes in life you just get lucky. A gap in my schedule, a speculative email and within 6 hours I was all tied up to visit the Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo). BBCo is probably the largest newest supplier of bourbon that you’ve never heard of. I had the huge pleasure of sitting down with David […]
I’m going to focus in on a couple of the Nelson’s products as I hope this shows a bit of both the classic and the innovative side of their products. Nelson’s Belle Meade Classic Bourbon 45.2% abv First up is Nelson’s Belle Meade Classic Bourbon. This is a blend of just four barrels per batch […]
It’s not everyday that you nip out to the butchers and come back with a distillery but in shorthand that’s what happened to Charlie and Andy Nelson. The story begins generations ago, around 1820, with the family relocating from Hagenow in Germany to America. John Philip Nelson had sold his candle and soap business and […]
The history of classifying whisky in America is long and difficult. From those that used to make all sorts of additions to the product, to a government that was interested in its tax revenue, to middlemen and distillers fighting for control of the market, to rebellions and funding of wars- the many and varied interests […]