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The Best High-Proof Bourbon You Can Buy in 2019
Don’t buy high-proof bourbon for high proof’s sake, but prospect carefully and you’ll unlock liquid pleasures beyond the vale.
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HomeBuffalo Trace’s New Experimental Bourbon Brand Was 15 Years in the Making
Buffalo Trace’s revamped line is all about fiddling with one thing: barrels.
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DrinksThese Are the Whiskeys Collectors Will Be Hunting for This Fall
If you find these bottles at their $99 SRP, buy them immediately.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: August 3, 2018
The best way to catch up on the day’s most important product releases and stories.
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DrinksPappy Van Winkle’s Latest Release Is Its Oldest Bourbon to Date
First distilled in the original Stitzel-Weller Distillery and bottled in handmade glass decanters.
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Food & DrinkTaste What ‘Legal’ Bourbon Was Like During Prohibition
Old Forester’s latest entry in their limited Whiskey Row series honors a very strange time in bourbon-making history.
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Food & DrinkBooker’s 7 Year Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey Doesn’t Rely on Potency Alone
Jim Beam’s attempt at a potent small-batch whiskey finds its best form in Booker’s 7 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
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Drinks10 Best Bourbons Not From Kentucky
The rise of craft American whiskey now extends beyond the bourbon belt.
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DrinksHow Bourbon Is Made
We toured 12 distilleries in a five-day blitz, asking everyone we met to walk us through the bourbon-making process. Here, you’ll find all of the steps that go into making America’s unique take on whiskey.
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DrinksBuffalo Trace’s Hunt for the Perfect Bourbon
“Buffalo Trace is already making the bourbons of the future”, said our guide Freddy Johnson. It sounded bold until we stopped to think about it.
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Food & Drink10 Ultra Rare Bourbons Not Named ‘Pappy’
At one of Lexington’s best bourbon bars, we laid eyes on some of the absolute rarest bottles in the world.
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ArchiveFinding the Rarest of the Rare
At some of the distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, there are bottles you can’t find anywhere else — rarities that can only be purchased on-site.
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DrinksWillett’s Long Path Back to Bourbon
Willett Master Distiller Drew Kulsveen doesn’t have time for bullshit. It’s not something he has to tell anyone.
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Drinks5 Days on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
Bourbon is booming, but only decades ago, it was on a path toward failure. This was most evident in the 1980s, at the height of vodka and big hair, when distilleries in the Bluegrass State were shuttering their doors.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: May 20, 2014
Today in gear: a new entry level Logitech Harmony remote, the Nuvyyo Tablo DVR for cord cutters, Quixotic Pocket Squares, Wild Turkey Diamond Anniversary Bourbon and BBQ recipes from London.
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DrinksHacking Pappy: An Experiment in Home Whiskey Blending
At night, when bourbon connoisseurs go to bed, many dream of Pappy Van Winkle, a line of three exquisite bourbons (15, 20 and 23 years old, all of them colloquially referred to as “Pappy”) distilled and bottled by the Sazerac Company at the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Much of Pappy’s legend comes from its high demand: when it’s released, liquor stores dust off month-long waiting lists to decide who gets a bottle. At the end of last year, Bourbonr Blog made headlines in the liquor community by posting a recipe for “Poor Man’s Pappy,” a mix of two mid-range W.L.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey
On a brisk Manhattan morning, we met with Ralph Erenzo of Hudson Whiskey for a taste test. He introduced us to Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey ($45), the first bourbon whiskey ever made in New York, and the first legal pot-distilled whiskey made in New York since prohibition.
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Food & DrinkTasting Notes: Knob Creek Smoked Maple Bourbon
Fall is upon us, and there’s no better way to usher in the cooler months than with a spirit seemingly created in autumn’s honor: Knob Creek Smoked Maple Bourbon ($31). To be clear, we’ve been completely satisfied with the standard Knob Creek 9 Year Straight Bourbon, but expanding whiskey horizons can’t be a bad thing.
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Food & DrinkTasting Notes: 5 Great Small Batch Bourbons
Asking us to choose between whiskey (bourbon) and whisky (single malt scotch) is like posing the question, “Would you prefer to drive a C2 Corvette Split Window or a Jaguar E-Type?” The answer is always “both and yes.” But if you’re a single malt devotee, you’d do right to expand your taste horizons, and the best way to experiment with bourbon is to go small batch — the complexities are pleasing, and you’ll find yourself a worshiper in many different temples. There’s a lot to love.