The calendar may read October, but if you love whiskey, it's like Christmas is already here. Right now distilleries are unlocking their vaults and emptying their casks to release special limited edition bottlings.
Paul Fehribach isn't interested in coffee that comes in a can but he certainly knows how to use a coffee can. At Big Jones, he is recreating the type of homestead cooking that his great-grandmother pioneered at her family farmstead along the Buffalo Trace.
No matter if Maker's Mark, Woodford Reserve or Wild Turkey is your favorite bourbon, you need to visit Kentucky and see where the spirit is produced. It's a trip that all whiskey drinkers should make at least once in their lifetimes.
Spirit production is steeped in lore and folk wisdom. Buffalo Trace is mapping the craft, attempting to replace leaps of faith with fact, luck with design.
I don't know much about horses or funny hats, but my liver and I do know a thing or two about bourbon. For those who don't know or who never thought to ask, here's a quick primer.
I'd have thought that that anyone with a subscription to Malt Advocate was going to want the unadulterated cereal grain flavors that are the framework of the spirit they adore.