Bourbon News & Notes: MGP gets Luxco, a Woodford Reserve chocolate pairing, Double Eagle...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 5 February 2021, by Susan Reigler
News from MGP
MGP Ingredients in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near Cincinnati, Ohio, is the largest distillery of which you have never heard. While it...
Hip Hops: On old books, new beer labels and timeless bung-starters
A fractious month of January calmed somewhat near the end, providing a relatively peaceful space to finish reading the year's opening novel: The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen (1903-1989), who was...
Bourbon News & Notes: Roses with Four Roses; IX Bourbon Whiskey; and a new...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 29 January 2021, by Susan Reigler
Four Roses for Valentines Benefits American Heart Association
That beautiful bouquet of roses you present your loved one for Valentine’s Day loses its luster...
Hip Hops: Pilsners, Trappists and Monnik
Beer headings and a few pithy comments on a rainy Monday morning ...
• Kentucky brewers want legislation to allow them to sell directly to bars and restaurants(Lane Report)
In the main, alcoholic beverage laws in...
Bourbon News & Notes: Two whiskey books for your library, and a new expression...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 22 January 2021, by Susan Reigler
Whiskey Book Shelf
Since you are reading this column, you are interested in whiskey in general and bourbon in particular. That interest probably means...
Hip Hops: Flagship February celebrates “the beers that got us here”
Flagship February originated in 2019 as an effort spearheaded by beer writers Stephen Beaumont and Jay Brooks, who corralled a few of their friends and set about to espouse the value of flagship beers.
Increasingly,...
Bourbon News & Notes: Bourbon Women, Buzzard’s Roost and Kentucky Artisan Distillery
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 15 January 2021, by Susan Reigler
Bourbon Women – New Year, New Leadership
The Bourbon Women Association is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and the organization for women who...
Hip Hops: Learning about cask-conditioned “real” ale
Even in the best of times, Great Britain’s traditional pub culture is the subject of fervent, impassioned debate. Will the nation's glorious pubs survive changing tastes, injurious taxation and licensing regimes and the encroaching death...
Bourbon News & Notes: Smoke gets in your cocktail (at River House), plus two...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 8 January 2021, by Susan Reigler
Two New Rye Releases to Note
Two Kentucky producers have recently released rye whiskeys. One is distilled in Danville by Wilderness Trail and the...
Hip Hops: Two regional beer writers you should know
Rather than waste precious shoe leather during a pandemic, I fetched a growler of Fuller’s London Pride from my “other” workplace and devoted last week’s column to a rumination on a theme of personal...
