I have hit my latest milestone of one thousand five hundred blogs on this website. Not all of the blogs have been written by me. In the early days, Maggie Kimberl wrote many of the blogs and I have been... Continue Reading →
For over 25 years now, I have had a debate with John Lipman about whether Bourbon or Rye Whiskey was the first aged whiskey. John has put forward that it was Rye whiskey being aged before Bourbon. Here are my... Continue Reading →
My blog on Monday was very much centered on Kentucky with Kentucky distilled whiskeys. I thought I would expand this to include whiskeys from other states with whiskeys that are more regional in their distribution. The first whiskey is from... Continue Reading →
Father’s Day will soon be upon us. I have chosen five whiskeys that would make excellent gifts for your father. He will be happy to receive any one of these whiskeys. I have picked these whiskeys because they are readily... Continue Reading →
Several years ago, I wrote a blog about women in the industry. In that blog, I lamented about the fact that there were not more women in distilling. Things have changed since I wrote that blog and women are playing... Continue Reading →
Distillers have to have a talent for predicting the future. They have to predict what their sales are going to be for their whiskey for years in advance to make the right amount of whiskey to fill that demand. It... Continue Reading →
I have received a lot of responses on my blogs about the prices of whiskey per bottle lately. I thought I would write something about the pricing of bottles here rather than answer the comments. Whiskey pricing has gone up... Continue Reading →
Bourbon and the distilling industry as a whole are going through some tough times today, but are they as bad as the bad days of the 1960s and 70s? I thought I would do a historical comparison of the two... Continue Reading →
Kentucky’s Bourbon Industry is struggling in the present days. There have been shut downs of distilleries as they cut back on production as demand is down. Consumers are not drinking as much Bourbon right now as the younger generation are... Continue Reading →
