10 Top Whiskeys Under $100
Drinkhacker readers: We’ve heard your cries. Our top ten lists regularly feature whiskeys that are impossible to get, much too expensive, or both. With this feature, we’re diving deep into 10 bottlings you can readily obtain, with none costing more than $100, and half of them under $50. Best of all, we’ve given all of…
Review: New Liberty Bloody Butcher Bourbon 12 Months Old
Philadelphia’s New Liberty Distillery makes its Bloody Butcher bourbon with a particular variety of eponymously named corn, grown just 25 miles away from the distillery in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The corn-heavy mash (70%) sees the addition of (curiously) malted rye (26%) and malted barley (4%) before fermentation. While a variety of Bloody Butcher expressions are now…
Review: Dulce Vida Blanco 100 and Extra Anejo Tequila (2023)
Dulce Vida Tequila has been steadily expanding their offerings and availability (while periodically rebranding itself), and today we swing back to retry two of their tequilas and see how current bottlings compare to older ones. We last reviewed Dulce Vida Blanco in 2010 and 2017, both as an 80 proof offering; today we’re checking out…
Review: 2021 Ottella Lugana and Le Creete
Lugana can be found in the north of Italy, and the focus here is far and away on white wines. We’ve covered the wines of Lugana extensively in the past, but this is our first round with Ottella, which also produces olive oil and grappa. Let’s dive in. 2021 Ottella Lugana DOC – 100% turbiana…
Review: Log Still Distillery Whiskeys – Monk’s Road Small Batch and Rattle & Snap
Log Still Distillery is based in Gethsemane, Kentucky, where it produces a variety of whiskeys and gins. The project was born from the progeny of old-time whiskeymaker JW Dant, whose name is still being used on whiskey today, courtesy of his great-great-grandson Wally Dant, who revived the family’s 1836-established brand just a few years ago.…
Review: Green River Wheated Bourbon
Following its bourbon debut last fall, Kentucky’s Green River Distillery (formerly O.Z. Tyler) is expanding their portfolio this spring with two new expressions. While a full-proof single barrel bourbon is on the way, Green River fans can snag this new bottle now: Green River Wheated Bourbon. The mashbill is similar to Green River’s inaugural offering…
Review: Renegade Pre-Cask Single Farm Origin Rums – Lake Antoine Upper Crater and Hope
Mark Reynier is obsessed with terroir. He was an early proponent of the concept, as it applies to whisky, when he owned Bruichladdich. He then built an entire whisky brand around the idea with Waterford Distillery in Ireland, offering almost tedious levels of production detail for each release. Last fall, Mark applied his obsession with…
Review: Natterjack Irish Whiskey
Hot on the heels of Keeper’s Heart, another Irish and American whiskey mashup has landed on the Drinkhacker review desk: Natterjack, from the unusually-named Gortinore Distilling. Unlike Keeper’s Heart, which blends Irish and American whiskeys, Natterjack is triple-distilled entirely in Ireland but from a very corn-heavy grainbill similar to American bourbons (80% corn and 20%…
