Admittedly, I start thinking about Thanksgiving desserts sometime around June. Even when there will be no more than six of us for the holiday dinner, I'll make four pies. There can never be too much pie. I've got sour cherry, peach and berry pie fillings canned and in jars: Summer fruits are such a treat in November. Thanksgiving morning, I roll out and fill pie crusts (with dough frozen weeks earlier and defrosted overnight...

Two products are being added to the Jefferson’s whiskey range in the UK as part of new activity that includes a bartender barrel-ageing competition.

Frankfort, Ky. – Buffalo Trace Distillery’s master distiller and visitor center manager were each honored at “Whisky Magazine’s Icons of Whisky America Awards 2016,” for their hard work at the Distillery. Harlen Wheatley was named “Master Distiller of the Year” and Matt Higgins was recognized as “highly commended” for Visitor Attraction Manager of the Year.

With the weather getting colder and crisper, fall is the perfect time to celebrate America's native spirit and clink with all the fabulous drinks concocted from this smooth, oak-y pour. One bourbon cocktail in particular, the old fashioned, is perfect for toasting the season. Like the martini, this drink is rich in history, has undergone multiple makeovers and even has its very own glass. Formerly called the whiskey cocktail...

Henrietta, TX- Just across the Clay County line, a gravel road in Henrietta will lead you to Rocking M Ranch Distillery. In 2012, we first told you about a couple opening up the first distillery in Texoma with hopes of one day distributing their own bourbon. Their dream will soon become a reality. Newschannel 6 took a tour of their distillery to find out how their company

Part apple pie and part caramel-coated Halloween apple from Eric Wolitzky, Cakes & Ale, Decatur, GA Though he comes from a line of bakers, Eric Wolitzky was slow to join the family business. He acted in a soap opera (Another World). He got a master’s degree. Then everything changed. “I was working in a law firm in the World Trade Center

The patois of bourbon has developed over centuries. The language stayed within the confines of distilleries for decades, but now a rekindled obsession for American whiskey is pushing the jargon into the mainstream. Chalk some of it up to a more sophisticated market, and the rest to promotion. Visiting bourbon country makes one thing inherently clear: very little separates one distillery from another.

CONOVER – Foothills Distillery celebrated a number of firsts last week. Conover Mayor Lee E. Moritz Jr. and friends of the Foothills Distillery attended a ribbon cutting ceremony at the business located on 300 Thornburg Drive SE in Conover. “It’s a historic event for Conover,” Moritz said. “It’s very exciting for our citizens to have a new business here.”

In Seattle, folks drink coffee. In Napa, they guzzle wine. In Kentucky (and the South in general), ladies and gentlemen like bourbon. Kentucky bourbon is a grain alcohol made with at least 51% corn (this is required as per the mash bill, a general recipe for bourbon), rye and malted barley (at least between 10 and 15%), and (optional) wheat...

Last year, a first-come-first-served sale of Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon caused the website to crash, and as such the PCLB board is attempting to “more equitably” distribute highly sought-after expressions. “In recent years, certain products have become very popular among aficionados, enthusiasts and collectors,” said Tim Holden, PLCB chairman of the board. “When sold through our traditional online store in the past, the...

Kentucky is home to more barrels of bourbon than people, and ninety-five percent of all of America's native spirit is produced in the Bluegrass State. More than two hundred distilleries once operated in Kentucky, but only sixty-one survived Prohibition. Though the businesses were gone, most of the buildings remained, unused, slowly deteriorating for decades.

Halloween as an adult means one thing to me — party time! It used to be all about dressing up and going door to door for free candy, but as an adult I get to upgrade to house parties filled with shenanigans and booze. Of course where there’s booze, there has to be Halloween jello shots. Those creepy, jiggly sweet cups of joy are the perfect libation for Halloween. When I was in college, my friends and I strictly stuck with...

SIOUX CITY | You don’t have to be a classically trained bartender to make the perfect fall drink, according to Austin Jeffries, bar manager of The Diving Elk in downtown Sioux City. “The trick is to start with what you like and experiment, experiment, experiment,” he said. “Don’t overcomplicate it.” “Basically find fall fruits, anything in season, and go from there,” added CJ Perera, owner. Perera said that pears, apples and...

From 1920 to 1933, the only way to drink whiskey in America was to get a doctor's prescription, which would be pasted on the bottle (max one bottle/person/week) -- much like the "medical marijuana" of today. Adam from the LA Whiskey Society held a tasting for a dozen pints of surviving Prohibition-era whiskey (including one brand whose label was so far gone they don't know what it was). The booze was surprisingly good!

WESTON, Mo. -- There's something brewing in Platte County, and it could mean big bucks for the local economy. A distillery with roots that pre-date the Civil War will again produce bourbon, and that has business leaders proposing a toast. A piece of distilling history is about to live again in Weston. McCormick Distilling and the celebrated Holladay Distillery are about to resume production of bourbon, using a popular bourbon...

Did we really need science to tell us what we already knew? That whiskey is good for you? Nonetheless, a recent article lends support to your grandmother’s theory that a hot toddy is the best cure for the cold. The article claims that because sleep is really what your body needs to fight off an infection, there is no healthier and natural way to get your z’s than with a hot toddy. But a hot toddy does more than just ease you...

Michael Veach and Susan Reigler have a new book out called The Bourbon Tasting Notebook. Veach says he was recruited a few years ago to do this book and said he wouldn’t do it without Reigler, another renowned bourbon and tourism writer from Kentucky. Together they tasted over 200 bourbons and put their findings together in an easy-to-use format.

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s newest distillery has quite an interesting past. When Jos. A. Magnus & Co. opened its doors in the Northeast D.C. neighborhood of Ivy City on Sept. 12, the distillery revived a century-old spirit. Joseph Magnus was a pre-prohibition distiller out of Cincinnati, who was best known for his Murray Hill Club bourbon. At the turn of the century, one could even find a bottle in D.C. at a store on Pennsylvania...

The whiskey comprises 12 barrels of wheated Bourbon produced at the Stitzel-Weller Distillery – the original home of Heaven Hill Old Fitzgerald and ancestor to the Larceny brand. According to legend, treasury agent John E. Fitzgerald was granted free access to the bonded Bourbon warehouses and would help himself to the whiskey ageing there. His choices became known as the “Fitzgerald barrels” and used to create a Bourbon...

1792 Port Finish Bourbon is the second launch in the range, following the release of 1792 Sweet Wheat Bourbon earlier this year. The Bourbon has been aged in new American white oak barrels for six years before spending an additional two years maturing inside used wine Port barrels. Ken Pierce, director of distillation and quality assurance at Barton, describes the new expression as having “a rich aroma of apple and fruit...

In recent years, bourbon has regained its rightful place on the American liquor shelf. “The momentum had been gradually building since Maker’s Mark garnered its early attention in the early 1980s and Elmer T. Lee commercialized the single barrel bourbons with Blanton’s and Booker Noe pioneered the small batch bourbons,” says Fred Minnick, author of Bourbon Curious: A simple tasting guide for the savvy drinker.

What happens when a dozen-odd whiskey aficionados, led by one maniacally obsessed Southern chef and the reigning bourbon king, gather to test twenty-four years’ worth of a legendary brand? Among other things, a hell of a good time “I’m not sure we’ve got enough bourbon,” said the chef Sean Brock on the morning of the epic whiskey tasting. Brock was joking. The quantity of bourbon in the room had turned the daylight brown.

Quick – where is the world’s largest bourbon bar? If you said, right here in Kentucky you are correct. If you also said Newport, right again. Just a few months back, however, you would have been wrong. Then, the world’s largest bourbon bar, believe it or not, was in Tokyo.

The Kentucky distillery is releasing lower-than-expected volumes of several of the five-strong collection of bourbon and rye whiskies because of the unpredictable nature of barrel ageing. The Antique Collection will arrive from the US at the end of October. In particularly short supply will be George T Stagg, the uncut and unfiltered bourbon which has twice been named the best in the world. The 128 barrels in which the whiskey...

Mid-September marked the annual release of one of Four Roses’ most coveted collectible expressions: the Limited Edition Small Batch. Hand-selected for blending by Four Roses’ master distiller, Jim Rutledge, this whiskey has won some major accolades, including being named American Whiskey of the Year by Whiskey Advocate back-to-back in 2012 and 2013.

Celebrate #30DaysofBourbon by drinking the brown stuff like you mean it. A new gold rush is taking place in California, more than a century and a half after the famous 1849 bonanza. But this time it’s liquid gold—drinkable and delicious. As all bourbon lovers know, the strictly American whiskey can be made anywhere in the U.S. Though the vast majority of it comes from the South—Kentucky, primarily—bourbon from the Northeast...

Legal whiskey production stopped in the state in 1915 just ahead of Prohibition – the nationwide ban on the sale, production and importation of alcoholic beverages between 1920 and 1933.

Whisky is liquid sunshine. It’s the most versatile drink ever invented. And the patiala peg at Punjabi weddings is proof of India’s never ending love affair with whisky. It’s no longer a drink only for the refined older gentlemen like the Sean Connery’s of the world. Whether you’re having a good day or life has got you down, a glass of whisky is always good company. Just like Mark Twain rightly put it, “Too much of anything is...

So a guy walks into Bailey’s Backyard in Ridgefield looking for the bar because he’s there to talk about bourbon, which happens to be one of Bailey’s signature libations. Except the joke’s on him because there is no bar, just two cozy dining rooms, and the bourbons are not only kept out of sight, they are not familiar brands like Maker’s Mark or Jim Beam. There isn’t a bartender either, but luckily there is a beverage...

Sales to the general public begin at 11am on Saturday, September 26th at their Seattle Distillery. A limited, numbered amount of commemorative collector’s edition bottles will be available for purchase on the day of the release. Old Log Cabin Bourbon will begin shipping to retailers and bars the following Monday, September 28th.

An often-overlooked category of whiskey is bottled in bond bourbon. This is probably mostly due to the fact that not very many brands actually carry expressions that fit the stringent criteria, part of which involves minutiae like government-certified warehouses. Obviously, the rules that classify bourbon as bonded aren’t mandatory, so why would a brand even bother? Well, there’s a bit of history behind it.

Summer has turned to Fall, but there is still time to celebrate National Bourbon Heritage Month. Here are some great Florida restaurants and resorts that can put you in the party mood: Down the Rabbit Hole / Miami Beach (Sense Beach House) If you’re curious for a cocktail infused with the much sought after Bourbon Whiskey, then follow the rabbit down the hole and head to Sense Beach House’s - The Local House. The beachy-chic...

Probably one of the most fun jobs you can land in the bourbon industry is as a brand ambassador. It’s an opportunity to travel places where bourbon might not be the most popular spirit on the shelf in order to educate people about why it should be. Bobby Burk is the Kentucky Brand Champion for Bulleit Bourbon, a relatively new brand in the decades-old bourbon industry started by Louisville native Tom Bulleit.

Two-fifths of bourbon drinkers are women. Why are women suddenly drawn to America’s native spirit? According to Susan Reigler, president of the board of directors of Bourbon Women, the rise in interest in women isn’t exactly sudden. “I grew up in Kentucky,” says Reigler. “Women have been drinking bourbon for a very long time.” If that’s the case, then why create a club for women? Bourbon Women was founded in 2010 with 100...

e people who know me well assumed I traveled to Kentucky to drink bourbon. The people who know me well were wrong. I went to Kentucky to learn about Bourbon. And then drink it. Herein lies the biggest difference I’ve found between bourbon touring and wine or beer touring. A weekend on the bourbon trail is far more educational than a weekend spent in, say, Napa (not that there’s anything wrong with Napa!) Over the course of...

CINCINNATI —A special whiskey is being made to honor fallen Cincinnati firefighter Daryl Gordon. According to a flyer tweeted Tuesday by the Ohio Firefighters Association, the Party Source and Woodford Reserve are commemorating Gordon with an engraved 750-milliliter bottle of Woodford Reserve. Each bottle will be engraved with a Daryl Gordon logo, according to the Party Source website. It can also be further personalized...

September is National Bourbon Heritage Month. Americans will celebrate bourbon as our country's "Native Spirit." What better way to enjoy bourbon's deep traditions than with a cocktail from mixologist and owner of Old Kentucky Bourbon Bar? Here's Molly Wellmann's recipe for a Fig Jig. Cheers! You'll need: 2 ounces Four Roses Yellow Label bourbon 1 ounce Pimm’s No. 1 1 ⁄ 2 ounce fig simple syrup Fig Simple Syrup: 1 cup...

Buffalo Trace Distillery has returned to its roots with the latest release in their long-running experimental whiskey program, a bourbon made using an old-fashioned process of souring the mash. Distilled in May of 2002, this Old Fashioned Sour Mash experiment used Buffalo Trace’s proprietary mash. The bourbon was cooked and cooled to standard; however, the similarities stop there.

People love to drink alcohol. Whether it’s a cocktail, a shot of whiskey, a beer, or an elegant glass of chardonnay, people just enjoy drinking. But, once the party’s over, we seemingly always "forget" about the negative side effects of alcohol, namely the hangover. How do you stay hangover-free? How do you still enjoy a few shots with your buddies without waking up the next morning feeling like someone drilled a hole into the...

Following the growing trend of alcohol-infused foods, Mistica Foods introduces Jim Beam Boneless Breaded Chicken Wingz with Honey Bourbon Sauce. This independent, woman-owned company provides custom menu and supply-chain solutions to foodservice as well as retail channels. This new frozen appetizer is rolling out just in time for tailgating, holiday and Super Bowl parties. Marinated and breaded, the boneless chicken pieces are...

The Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection, in which the big Kentucky bourbon distillery creates small batches of offbeat whiskies, is a chance for them to think outside the traditional American whiskey box. We saw this earlier this year with the release of a 10 year old bourbon aged in French oak, and now joining this offering is the last 2015 Experimental bottling, a 13 year old sour mash expression with two different entry...

In this week's look at Twitter, we stop first in the land of bourbon whiskey, then travel with Pope Francis to Philadelphia (all reports indicate that the pope is more in tune with an occasional glass of wine than an aged whiskey): Best Bourbon Bars The Bourbon Review, celebrating its seventh anniversary issue, has released its list of the nation's 75 Best Bourbon Bars.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- September's bourbon heritage month is special for Old Forester, and it's long history in Kentucky. As America's First Bottled Bourbon and America's longest continuously produced bourbon, there is no better bourbon to celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month with than Old Forester. This 145 year old authentic Kentucky bourbon is the only bourbon distilled, aged and bottled in the city of Louisville. ? Old...

If you’re a bourbon fan currently enjoying the spoils of a thriving whiskey market (or just celebrating September, National Bourbon Heritage Month), maybe pour a little out for Elmer T. Lee next time you take a sip. In case you didn’t know, there was a time not too long ago when the bourbon industry was actually failing. Lee is the guy who saved it.

If you thought the apple schnapps of your high-school drinking days was a bygone trend in needlessly flavor-infused liquors, think again! If anything, the world of alcohol that doesn’t taste like alcohol has only blossomed into a super-empire. For starters, Fireball is now, believe it or not, the sixth-most popular liquor brand in the US as well as “America’s party shot of choice,” according to a CNN report from earlier this...

Bourbon Pecan Pie was chosen by Ben & Jerry's followers because the official taste or Texas.(Photograph: Ben & Jerry's) Ever questioned what Texas would style like as a taste? In line with Ben & Jerry’s lovers, it concerned bourbon and pecans. After Ben & Jerry’s hit the street and this summer time, followers voted for his or her favourite state-inspired taste. Bourbon Pecan Pie was in Texas. The ice cream options pecans...

Like an aging, out-of-shape boxer taking body blow after body blow in fight after fight, rye whiskey was hanging on for dear life for many years. Even the spirit’s most ardent fans must have feared, in their heart of hearts, that the end was near. It seemed inevitable that the historic whiskey’s smoother and more nimble opponent—bourbon—would end a centuries-old grudge match, settling once and for all the question of what is...

Summer is on the way out. Time to tuck your swimsuit away in the bottom drawer and break out the wool sweater. But don't despair just yet, summer lovers! There's a ton of happenings around the globe this autumn that will have you greeting cooler temps with a grin. Here are 19 travel-worthy fall events worth traveling for, in no particular order: 1. Niagra Wine Festival: Ontario, Canada (Sept 12-13, 19-20, 26-27) Just an easy...

Ain’t that America? We have whiskeys that don’t taste like whiskey (e.g., Fireball) and now a not-whiskey that tastes a little bit like whiskey, Oak by Absolut. Absolut is foundering and desperate. The pundits say it is whiskey, bourbon in particular, that is kicking vodka’s butt in the USA. Ergo, bourbon-flavored vodka. Never let it be said that Pernod Ricard doesn’t see and do the obvious. It isn't bourbon-flavored vodka...

Bourbon. It is a word on the mind of all American whiskey drinkers. It is also the namesake of Bourbon County, Kentucky, a place which once housed a good number of distilleries until that pesky thing known as Prohibition came along and wiped the industry off the map there. No bourbon reportedly has been produced in Bourbon County for around 96 years, that is, until now. Meet The Gentleman bourbon whiskey. The Gentleman is a...