Posted on January 3, 2022
by Brian Haara
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The massive tornado that ripped through Western Kentucky overnight on December 10, 2021 caused tremendous losses. But, as Kentuckians have shown throughout history, we’re resilient, and as distillers and bourbon fans have also shown, we answer the call. In fact, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association… Continue Reading “The Kentucky Bourbon Benefit Raises $3.5 Million for Tornado Relief.”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon EventsTags: Angel's Envy, Auction, Barrel Selection, Beam, bourbon, Bourbon Crusaders, Brown-Forman, Carr's Steakhouse, Castle & Key, Elijah Craig, Four Roses, Fundraising, Heaven Hill, KDA, Kentucky, KentuckyStrong, Maker's Mark, Mayfield, Minnick, Old Forester, Tornado Relief, Western Kentucky, Westport Whiskey & Wine, Willett, Woodford Reserve
Posted on November 5, 2021
by Brian Haara
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Evan Williams is insanely popular worldwide, and now Heaven Hill has released a newly-redesigned 1783 Small Batch, along with a bump in proof. The name 1783 comes from the year Evan Williams first opened his distillery on the Ohio River in Louisville, when Kentucky… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Tasting Notes: Evan Williams 1783 Small Batch.”
Category: Announcements, Bourbon ReviewsTags: bourbon, Evan Williams, Heaven Hill, Kentucky, Kentucky Bourbon, Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Louisville, Review, small batch, Whiskey
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 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