Review: New Riff Maltster T50 Crystal Malt Bourbon and Aroostock Malted Rye
New Riff has been on a malt kick of late, beginning with their Maltster Bourbons and Malted Rye in 2021 and followed by a sherry-finished version of the same malted rye in the spring of 2022. The distillery is continuing its exploration of malted grains with two recent limited-edition offerings: Maltster T50 Crystal Malt Bourbon…
Review: Brooklyn Brewery Black Ops (2022)
Brooklyn Brewery is back again with another bottling — well, a canning, this year — of its iconic bourbon barrel-aged Black Ops, which for the fourth year running is a collaboration with Four Roses bourbon. The 2022 Black Ops Imperial Stout spent 9 months finishing in Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon barrels — in other…
Review: Mortlach Midnight Malt 30 Years Old
Mortlach‘s famous 2.81-times distilled whiskey takes one of its oldest and most exotic forms in the bottling of the new Midnight Malt, a 30 year old whisky finished in Bordeaux wine, Calvados, and Guatemalan rum seasoned casks, then blended and married in custom quarter-sized casks before bottling. The annual release will see just 350 bottles…
Review: Tequila Eterno Verano Blanco
While inspired by Bruce Brown’s classic 1966 surf film The Endless Summer, I’m assured you don’t have to be a surfer to drink this beach-centric blanco, a 100% blanco offering crafted from a blend of Highlands and Lowlands agave by Master Tequilero Arturo Fuentes. Let’s give it a spin. Somewhat rustic on the nose, this…
Review: Virginia Distillery Courage & Conviction Single Casks: Bourbon, Sherry and Cuvee
With Courage & Conviction now well-established and reinforced by a line of cask-specific single malts derived from that flagship blend, the next frontier in the lineup for Virginia Distillery Co. is cask strength, single cask offerings. We got a taste of that last year with Cuvee Single Cask and, more recently, with an independently bottled…
Review: Kiss Cold Gin
It’s our second round with the spirits of rock band Kiss, whose lineup comprises three rums and this, a “New York Style” gin (which is also available in Navy strength now) named after the Kiss song of the same name. What is New York Style gin? I’m unclear, but the brand does say that it…
Review: Wyoming Whiskey 1872
Wyoming Whiskey continues the celebration of Yellowstone National Park’s 150th birthday with its latest, extremely rare offering, 1872. Proceeds will again go to support the nonprofit Yellowstone Forever, but while only $5 of each bottle of National Parks Edition No. 2 is being donated, the entirety of this bourbon’s hefty price tag will be generously…
Review: Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout lineup hit shelves this fall with seven different expressions, including the return of the much-loved Coffee Stout, which has not been seen for five long years. At this point, I’m pretty sure you know how a coffee stout baby is born, but here’s some more backstory from Goose Island.…
