Posted on September 24, 2019
by Brian Haara
Leave a Comment
On September 18, 2019, six semifinal winners from across the United States and the European semifinal winner converged on Lux Row Distillers in Bardstown, Kentucky, for the Championship of the Bourbon Battle Cocktail Competition. These mixologists were challenged to create original bourbon cocktails crafted… Continue Reading “Lux Row Bourbon Battle Cocktail Competition – We Crowned the Winner During the Kentucky Bourbon Festival!”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Events, Distillery Trips, UncategorizedTags: Bardstown, cocktail, Cocktail Competition, Ezra Brooks, Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Lux Row, Luxco, Mixology, Rebel Yell
Posted on September 4, 2019
by Brian Haara
Leave a Comment
Reviews posted on consecutive days? It must be National Bourbon Heritage Month! This makes the timing right for the perennial highly-anticipated limited edition Parker’s Heritage Collection from Heaven Hill, which for the first time ever is a Rye Whiskey. Heaven Hill continues to honor… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: Heaven Hill Parker’s Heritage Collection 13th Edition—It’s Finally a Rye!”
Posted on September 3, 2019
by Brian Haara
Leave a Comment
I love this time of the year! It’s Bourbon Heritage Month and that means Four Roses releases its annual Limited Edition Small Batch. With its unique 10 recipes Four Roses has a tremendous single barrel program, but it really allows Four Roses to shine… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: 2019 Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch”
Posted on August 30, 2019
by Brian Haara
Leave a Comment
The Frazier History Museum presents a bourbon series and I was lucky enough to be part of it earlier this summer to discuss Bourbon Justice alongside legendary Master Distiller Jim Rutledge and incomparable Heaven Hill brand ambassador and author Bernie Lubbers. In addition to… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes – Old Taylor (1953) Bottled in Bond; Old Fitzgerald Decanter; and Cream of Kentucky”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon Law, Review, UncategorizedTags: Bottled in Bond, bourbon, Bourbon History, Bourbon Justice, Cream of Kentucky, Frazier, Heaven Hill, Lubbers, Old Fitzgerald, Old Taylor, Rutledge
Posted on May 1, 2019
by Brian Haara
1 Comment
Amid springtime in Kentucky we have a new whiskey to enjoy. Four Gate Whiskey Company offers an 11-year old American Whiskey that went decidedly against the boring habit of other sourced brands that proof down their omnipresent MGP bourbon resulting in whiskeys that carry… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes – Four Gate Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Ex-Sherry Rum Casks (“The Kelvin Collaboration”)”