Author: Bill

Bill is the Co-Founder, Editor-in Chief, and official Bourbon-o-Phile for ModernThirst.com, and Founder and Chief Blending Officer for Four Gate Whiskey Company. He is a native of Louisville, KY in the heart of Bourbon Country. He attended the University of Kentucky in the mid to late 1990s. He has also been published on Liquor.com. He has conducted various bourbon and whiskey tastings in cities across the country, and consulted for multiple national labels. He is married with two daughters, and lives in east Louisville. You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter @BillStraub and email him at [email protected].

ModernThirst tastes and reviews the 2017 offering of the ultra-premium Parker’s Heritage, an 11 year old single barrel barrel-strength bourbon from Heaven Hill. This 11th edition of the collection honors late Master Distiller Emeritus, Parker Beam, and was aged in the famed Deatsville rickhouse location.

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