Review #428 - A. Overholt Monongahela Mash Rye
This old-style rye has its roots in Pennsylvania, though it's made in Kentucky now, because of the Beam Suntory ownership
Review #427 - New Riff Red Turkey Wheat Bourbon
The distillery is generally known for their high-rye bourbons and rye whiskies, but they do also occasionally produce wheated bourbons.
Review #426 - Knob Creek 18 Year Bourbon (Batch 3, KC003)
In 2024, a third batch of Knob Creek's relatively new 18 Year bourbon was released.
Review #425 - Knob Creek 18 Year Bourbon (Batch 2, KC002)
Aged for a minimum of 18 years, this Kentucky bourbon uses a mashbill of 75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% malted barley.
Review #424 - Single Malts of Scotland Glen Garioch 10 Year Single Cask
Glen Garioch - this distillery is seeing a bit of a resurgence in popularity in whisky circles over the last couple of years.
Review #423 - Talisker 11 Year Diageo Special Releases 2022
It's a slightly unusual Talisker, in fact - the bottle states that this uses lightly-peated stocks.
Review #422 - Cadenhead's Aultmore 11 Year
The casks chosen for this release in their 'Original Collection' is a 50/50 split between ex-bourbon and Palo Cortado sherry casks.
Review #421 - Booker's 2024-03 'Master Distillers Batch'
The third batch of the year from Jim Beam's Booker's brand.
Review #420 - New Riff Single Barrel Bourbon - Barrel #12804
This was aged for 4 years, and it uses the distillery's high-rye bourbon mashbill of 65% corn, 30%, and 5% malted barley, all made from non-GMO grains.
Review #419 - Cadenhead's Glen Keith 22 Year
Here's a distillery that isn't seen as a single malt too often: Glen Keith.
Review #418 - Adelphi 2007 Breath of the Isles (Highland Park) 16 Year
Because it yielded a bottle count of 350, we know this is larger than any typical ex-bourbon barrel or hogshead.
Review #417 - Weller Full Proof
The Buffalo Trace distillery's high-strength entry in their wheated Weller line.
Review #416 - Springbank 10 Year Sherry Wood Pedro Ximenez Cask Matured (2022)
Now, at auction, the going rate is $350. Can a 10 year old sherry-aged single malt really be worth that much?
Review #415 - Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch C922
Super mature and oak-forward - the youngest barrels are 12 years old based on the label.
Review #414 - SMWS 41.127 'Mind That Big Ginger Fae' Moffat!' - Dailuaine 13 Year
Instead of a finish in an Oloroso cask, the distillate was initially matured for 12 years in that Oloroso butt; for the last year, they moved the spirit to a virgin oak puncheon.
Review #413 - New Riff Single Barrel Bourbon - Barrel #23275
Like all New Riff products, this single barrel bourbon is not chill filtered, and here we get cask strength presentation.
Review #412 - Single Malts of Scotland Reserve Casks Laphroaig 7 Year
This Laphroaig carried a 2014 vintage of distillation.
Review #411 - Bardstown Discovery Series #12
This is a mixture of sourced bourbons and the distillery's own stock, which has now aged up to 6 years old.
Review #410 - Longrow 21 Year (2022)
A limited release, this has only been bottled a few times in Springbank’s history.
Review #409 - Old Grand-Dad Bonded
Old Grand-Dad uses Jim Beam's high-rye mashbill: 63% corn, 27% rye, and 10% malted barley.