Basil Hayden’s Small Batch

Basil Hayden

Basil Hayden’s Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a bourbon from Jim Beam’s “Small Batch” collection.  The modern recipe is based off of a classic recipe by an early American distiller named Basil Hayden.  The bourbon has a distinctive presentation which includes a paper label secured by  a ribbon featuring the Basil Hayden logo…. [Continue Reading]

Whisky Smoothie

Whisky Smoothie

One of the things I like most about the summer is how easily you can get your hands on cheap fruits and berries. Last summer I was wise enough to fill my freezer with berries, pounds upon pounds of berries, and it cost me a mere handful of golden coins. They’ve lasted me until now,… [Continue Reading]

Angel’s Envy

Angels Envy

Angel’s Envy is a bourbon whisky produced by Lincoln Henderson of Woodford Reserve fame.  The bottle which I purchased had been aged for five years in a charred new oak barrel and then finished in a port barrel.  I had heard that Angel’s Envy was a fruity bourbon which is spicy, sweet, unique, and very… [Continue Reading]

Crowdsourced Distillery

Crowdsources Distillery

Do you have somewhere between $3,100-2,875,455 kicking about? Fancy making the world a happier, shinier, better place? Then why not consider investing in a new distillery. Would-be entrepreneur Douglas Barclay Clement think the world needs more whisky (a sentiment with which I am sure most of us thoroughly agree), and is looking to fund the… [Continue Reading]

The Famous Goose

The Famous Goose

I really like it when companies have the courage to step outside of their comfortable little boxes and do something new; I have even more respect for them when that involves a move away from an existing brand. The latter part may stem from my marketing experience and appreciation of how difficult brand creation is,… [Continue Reading]