In putting together the Bourbon Blue Book, we created not only a great (and free) resource for Bourboneur’s everywhere to understand current valuations of bottles on the secondary market but a data source to track trends in popularity and the ebbs and flows of interest in particular bottles or brands. Through this proprietary resource, we […]
I remember when I was first getting into bourbon, a good friend of mine, lets call him “Big John” had popped by my garage bar with a bottle of Weller Special Reserve. I recall seeing it at several local liquor stores for a fairly cheap price here in Texas and honestly really did not think […]
Many whiskey aficionado’s probably haven’t heard of the newly announced brand Hidden Barn, much less seen a bottle…that is unless you happen to live in Colorado or Kentucky where their first small-batch expression is available. In a time when bourbon is expanding and brands are growing, its not surprising to find upstarts here and there […]
Although you may have heard of the whiskey collection branded as Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. many are unaware of the depth and breadth of the label or the mystique around the man for whom the whiskey is named after. The E.H. Taylor brand has been developed as a standalone premium name inside the Buffalo Trace […]
Today is National Bourbon Day and if you have not already penciled this into your calendar for each June 14th, consider this your reminder to do so! How did bourbon get its name? In the late 1700’s a gentleman named Elijah Craig started using old barrels that had fish in them to store whiskey […]
As uniquely American as NFL Football, bourbon has enjoyed a significant rise in popularity in the last decade. Folks just cannot seem to get enough – and producers cannot seem to produce enough. Lots of demand and in some cases, sparse supply. As I sat outside a local liquor store recently, swapping bottles with a […]
Buffalo Trace is to Whiskey as Baseball is to America; they are inescapably bound together. The distilleries name is suggested to have come from a historic buffalo crossing on the banks of the Kentucky River and it is arguably one of the oldest if not THE oldest continuously operating distillery in America. During Prohibition whilst […]
Today I want to talk about four very different top shelf bourbons (three of which sit on the top shelf of my garage bar) which all are born from the curiosity of Buffalo Trace Distillery. The name Buffalo Trace is a mainstay in most circles, and you’d probably have to be living under a rock […]
Whether you’re in your garage bar, your home bar, sitting out in the back forty with cousin Fred, the great uniting truth about whiskey is that no matter the occasion or the company, it brings folks together. Granted, other spirits also bring folks together but I’m not talking about that hazy college bar and too […]
