Ezra Brooks has added Ezra Brooks 99 to their range of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskies. Ezra Brooks 99 was bottled at 49.5% alcohol by volume – 99 proof – while the flagship Ezra Brooks bourbon is bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof]. Ezra Brooks 99 is said to contain notes of caramel, chocolate, […]
Jim Beam has one of this year’s Fantasy Holiday Gifts being offered from luxury retailer Neiman Marcus – the Jim Beam Snow Globe Experience – which allows you and friends to enjoy holiday festivities inside three festooned snow globes, each fitted with a speaker system to allow communication between the globes and “adorned with elements […]
Brown-Forman – corporate overlords of Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve – is revamping their CheersToTheHost.com website, and now will offer tips about entertaining at home as the Covid-19 pandemic has created a new normal. The Brown-Forman site includes party recipes and entertainment themes like hosting a tailgate party while moving away from bartender-level mixology. Additionally, […]
Jim Beam has released Lineage – their new bourbon created as part of a collaboration between seventh-generation Beam family master distiller Fred Noe and his son Freddie. Jim Beam Lineage was aged for 15 years in charred white oak barrels, bottled at 55% alcohol by volume [110 proof] and is said to contain notes of […]
Label 5 has released a new single grain whisky matured in bourbon barrels. Label 5 Bourbon Barrel single grain whisky was matured in first-fill ex-Bourbon casks, bottled at 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and is said to contain notes of fruit, oak and vanilla. Label 5 Bourbon Barrel is primarily recommended to be mixed […]
Old Forester was founded by George Garvin Brown in 1870 and to celebrate their upcoming birthday, they will release three batches of a limited edition bourbon to celebrate that anniversary. The first batch of Old Forester’s anniversary limited edition bourbon is bottled at 62.8% alcohol by volume [125.6 proof] and is said to contain to […]
William Grant & Sons has produced A Fistful of Bourbon – with a corresponding short films directed by Paul Briganti [known for his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “Upright Citizens Brigade”]. The four shorts are in a tongue-in-cheek Clint Eastwood-style spaghetti Western theme [a la “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”]. The Fistful […]
New York City-based Hudson has released a new straight rye whiskey – Back Room Deal – and renamed others in their lineup. Hudson Back Room Deal is made from a mashbill containing 95% rye and 5% malted barley, finished in American oak barrels that were used to mature peated Scotch whisky, bottled at 46% alcohol […]