December 30, 2012

McAffee's Benchmark Bourbon Review

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Benchmark is one of the many bourbons made at the Buffalo Trace distillery.  It's bottled at the standard 80 proof and is sold in a Jack...
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October 20, 2012

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon Review

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Old Forester Birthday Bourbon is touted as a "vintage-dated" bourbon, meaning the bourbon is made up of whiskey from production da...
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September 2, 2012

Very Special Old Fitzgerald 12 YO Review

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Like Old Fitz 1849 reviewed below (and other OF expressions), Very Special Old Fitzgerald 12 Year Old is a wheated bourbon, meaning wheat is...
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June 19, 2012

Old Fitzgerald's 1849 Review

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Old Fitzgerald's 1849 bourbon is one of the handful of "wheaters" on the market, meaning that wheat is used instead of rye as ...
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May 22, 2012

Bourbon Book Review: "A Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of our Star-Spangled American Drink" by Gerald Carson

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And in the last installment of my short series on bourbon books.... Like Henry Crowgey’s "Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiske...
April 7, 2012

Bourbon Book Review: "Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking" by Henry G. Crowgey

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Henry G. Crowgey was a history professor at UNC-Wilmington, and his pedagogical nature certainly shines through in “Kentucky Bourbon: The Ea...
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March 15, 2012

Bourbon Book Review: "Bourbon At Its Best: The Lore & Allure of America's Finest Spirits," by Ron Givens

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Ron Givens is a drinks writer, and contributor to the New York Daily News, Newsweek, Time Out New York, and Drinks magazine. In "Bourbo...
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