Review: Dingle Irish Whiskey Batch 4
Dingle Whiskey Distillery was opened only in 2012, but it’s already tearing up the market with release after release of unusual whiskeys. Up next is Dingle Single Malt Irish Whiskey Batch No. 4, another limited edition offering that hits on the heels of Dingle Batch No. 3. Some details on this release, which is aged…
Review: 3 Alexander Murray Whiskies from Flaviar
Ah, what a find to discover this trio of independently bottled Alexander Murray whiskies in Flaviar’s new quarterly subscription club. (To refresh your memory: $95 gets you a single shipment or $300 buys you four shipments over the course of a year. Each shipment includes a tasting kit of three themed 50ml samples plus a…
Review: Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon 7 Years Old
For years, Heaven Hill marketed a value-priced bourbon called Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond. For 12 bucks you got a solid 6 year old, 100 proof whiskey, at least if you lived in Kentucky. When it was discontinued earlier this year as the crushing rise in demand for quality bourbon depleted stocks which would be used in…
Review: Dashfire Bitters – Spiced Apple, Sichuan, and Cardamom
Remember Dashfire’s sextet of canned cocktails we recently reviewed? Well now we’re taking a step back to look at the products that got the Minnesota-based company started: the bitters that are used in the creation of all those ready-to-drink cocktails. The company produces more than a dozen bitters varieties, but we’ll get things going with…
Review: Elephant Gin
Elephant Gin is a London dry style gin that’s made in Germany by distillers enamored with the bush-life of South Africa. As such, the gin is designed to “capture the spirit of Africa,” blending 14 botanicals that include “rare African ingredients” and fresh apples — the signature flavor note of the product. (Other botanicals are…
Review: Golden Moon Gin
Golden Moon Gin is the eponymous gin from Colorado’s Golden Moon Distillery. (We covered its Kummel previously.) There isn’t a whole lot of information about what’s in the bottle except this snippet of data about the product: Golden Moon Gin is distilled using the finest herbs, spices and botanicals available, including wild-crafted mint and juniper…
Review: Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch C919 (September 2019)
The third (and likely final) 2019 release from Elijah Craig’s Barrel Proof series has hit, coded as batch #C919. While this summer’s B519 was a veritable lightweight at a paltry 122.2 proof, C919 is a return to the usual expectations with a whopping 68.4% alcohol. I was expecting a nostril-searing experience, but C919 is surprisingly…
Review: Sotol Coyote Durango Blanco
We’ve written just a bit here about sotol, a Mexican cousin of tequila that’s made from the Desert Spoon plant (including dasylirion texanum and dasylirion wheeleri) a somewhat different type of desert shrub that it turns out you can ferment. Sotol Coyote Durango Blanco is an unaged expression of Sotol made in Cuencame, San Antonio,…
