Saturday, June 13th marked the 3rd annual Bourbon By the Bridge event in Louisville. Bourbon By the Bridge is a charity event supporting Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) of the River Region. CASA of the River Region supports and promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes. CASA recruits and trains community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of children with active cases in family court. CASA is a member of the National CASA Association. Last year, nearly 60,000 CASA volunteers served more than 240,000 abused and…
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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].
June 12, 2015- Lawrenceburg, KY Four Roses Bourbon Announces Major Expansion We all know your favorite Bourbon is worth the wait. That said, we are pleased to share that there will be more Bourbon to go around after a major expansion of Four Roses Distillery and its production capacity. We are investing $34 million to add two new buildings and new equipment at our Distillery in Lawrenceburg, and $20 million to build four new warehouses at our Warehouse & Bottling Facility in Cox’s Creek. Totaling $54 million, this expansion will create 15 new jobs, double our production and be fully…
I’m setting up a blind tasting for an upcoming comparison review…two low-priced, high demand wheaters- both aged 12 years. Weller 12 Year vs. Very Special Old Fitzgerald 12 Year. I’ll be doing the tasting blind, but I’m fairly confident I’ll know the difference, as these have pretty distinct flavor profiles despite the similarities in mash bill and age. Still, blind comparisons can be tricky. So What’s your call? Let us know!
Barton announced today the first in its lineup of new bourbons and whiskeys. The first one will be, according to Bourbon Buzz, the Sweet Wheat recipe. We were all hoping for barrel proof, but this should be interesting… BARDSTOWN, KENTUCKY (June 10, 2015) – Barton 1792 Distillery will soon debut the first ever new 1792 whiskey expression, entitled 1792 Sweet Wheat. Distilled back in 2007, the recipe features wheat as the secondary grain, rather than traditional rye.. 1792 Sweet Wheat was bottled at 91.2 proof. Bottles are expected to hit stores this summer at the suggested retail price of $32.99.…
Old Forester Single Barrel is a little oak-heavy on the finish for me, trending towards overly bitter. Still, the nose is excellent, and the initial flavors are quite nice.
ModernThirst.com Score: 87 out of 100 Points.
There whiskey strikes a great balance of cooking spices with a little heat from the alcohol on the back of the tongue, making this a really nice sip. In fact, it’s one of the better rye whiskeys I’ve tasted in recent months, and I wish I’d picked up more of it. Very nice.
We’ve always been in favor of tasting bourbon neat. It allows us to properly assess the aromas and flavors of a bourbon without other elements interfering with our senses. But how do you drink it? What’s you preferred way to enjoy America’s Native Spirit? [poll id=”7″]
If you follow the various bourbon message boards and bloggers, you’ve no doubt heard by now that Heaven Hill has applied for a new label for 20 year old John E. Fitzgerald bourbon containing whiskey distilled at none other than Stitzel-Weller in Louisville. Don’t go crazy yet…the price will no doubt be astronomical, and thus far they’ve only applied for 375 ML bottles, meaning that astronomical price will get you a half-sized bottle. And given recent trends, I’d almost bet money that these will be gift shop only. Nor is application for label approval a guarantee that the whiskey will…
How about a Bourbon-themed T-Shirt from Modern Thirst? They’re cool, come in a variety of colors and extended sizes, and will let that dad in your life express his love of America’s Native Spirit! There are drinking glasses and shot glasses, too! Click Here to Purchase!
[amazon_link asins=’B00H143UXW,B06Y1VGMH2′ template=’MT-product-carousel’ store=’modernthirstc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’89cd9de4-ff80-11e7-ad0b-b3d612b3a656′] What it is: Kentucky Tavern is one of the older brands available on the market today. Its roots can be traced back to 1901, when James R. Thompson purchased the R. Monarch Distillery in Owensboro, KY. from Martin Van Buren (no relation to the President of the same name) out of bankruptcy and renamed it the Glenmore Distillery. Thompson began producing Kentucky Tavern shortly thereafter, the trademark being registered for the first time in 1903. (While there are some suggestions that the name was used as early as the 1880s, I have found no evidence of this,…