Posted on October 27, 2021
by Brian Haara
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As part of the grand opening of the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience in Bardstown, Kentucky, Heaven Hill has released a new Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey to celebrate the five Shapira brothers, who admittedly “didn’t know a barrel from a box,” but nevertheless started a… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: Five Brothers Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Heaven Hill).”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Reviews, Distillery TripsTags: Bardstown, bourbon, Bourbon Justice, Bourbon Review, Heaven Hill, Kentucky, Kentucky Bourbon, Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Shapira
Posted on October 20, 2021
by Brian Haara
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This is a story that I love because it combines bourbon, history, and law. Sound familiar? Judge William Harrison McBrayer wrote a letter to E.H. Taylor, Jr. on November 10, 1870, concerning their discussions about Taylor purchasing some of the Judge’s whiskey. The back… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: W.H. McBrayer Kentucky Straight Bourbon.”
Posted on September 2, 2021
by Brian Haara
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Four Roses Small Batch Limited Edition is routinely one of the most anticipated limited edition bourbons in the September release season because Four Roses has so much flexibility with its ten recipes and variety of ages, so it’s always unique. This year I tasted… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: 2021 Four Roses Small Batch Limited Edition.”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Reviews, UncategorizedTags: Barrel Proof, Bourbon Heritage Month, Brent Elliott, Four Roses, Limited Edition, OBSQ, OBSV, OESK, OESV, small batch
Posted on July 28, 2021
by Brian Haara
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A trip to Kentucky to visit Maker’s Mark and other distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® just got even more enticing with your chance to live inside Kentucky bourbon history dating back to 1820. When it comes to heritage and longevity, the Samuels family… Continue Reading “The Samuels House—Spend a Night at the (Bourbon) Museum.”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Events, Distillery TripsTags: bourbon, History, Kentucky, Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Maker's Mark, Samuels, T.W. Samuels, Whiskey, whisky
Posted on July 16, 2021
by Brian Haara
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For all of the absolute facts that exist with bourbon, there has always been a surprising amount of debate over everything from grand concepts (like President Taft ruling on what is whiskey) to pure minutia (like whether whiskey should be spelled with, or without,… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Poll—Which Bourbon “Facts” Do You Doubt?”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Law, UncategorizedTags: bourbon, Brown-Forman, Colonel E. H. Taylor, Edmund Haynes Taylor, Elijah Craig, Father of Bourbon, Heaven Hill, Jack Daniel's, Kentucky, Poll, Tennessee, Tennessee Whiskey, Twitter