Spirits
Spirits are beverages made by the process of distillation. The “Spirits” category is not commonly used at Drinkhacker because the vast majority of reviews we publish fall into this category. It is used only occasionally to help organize our category list (and mainly gets clicked by accident).
Founded in 2015, Isle of Harris Distillery is one of the UK’s most remote distilling operations. And with a total island population under 2,000, it’s also a business of note, at max capacity employing about 1 out of 40 people on the island. While the distillery has several whiskies in distribution both in the UK…
Tincup continues to confuse with dueling releases of its American Whiskey and Bourbon lines — both with and without age statements, including releases at 6 and 10 years old. Today we’re looking at an additional link in that collection of whiskeys, Tincup Bourbon at 10 years of age. Like the NAS Tincup bourbon, this is…
I don’t expect a lot of confusion over the genesis of this product — it’s a full proof version of Woodford’s winning rye, which is bottled at the brand’s standard 90.4 proof. Literally nothing else has changed with this release except it isn’t watered down from the 125.1 proof it reaches in the barrel (or…
In the mid-19th century, a map of American “liquid gold” would have looked inverted to the modern eye. Before the Civil War, North Carolina stood as the undisputed titan of American viticulture, leading the nation in wine production and hosting the country’s first commercial winery. This reputation largely revolved around the Scuppernong grape, a native…
South Carolina’s High Wire Distilling is known for various brandies and Revival Rye, but its biggest claim to fame is undoubtedly Jimmy Red Bourbon. The house style whiskey is distilled from 100% Jimmy Red corn, an heirloom grain with kernels the shade of ripe pomegranate seeds. Over the years, High Wire has expanded the Jimmy…
We’ve encountered plenty of movie and rock star-backed tequila brands, from George Clooney’s Casamigos, arguably the tequila that lit the fire for the Hollywood obsession, to Matthew McConaughey’s more recent Pantalones, among so, so many others. What we don’t see as much are celebrity chefs throwing their weight behind a tequila brand. Which, well, is…
How do you tame a monstrous rum like South Africa’s Mhoba, an ester-laden powerhouse that can overwhelm with the tiniest of sips? Easy: Drop some pineapple into it. Sihhenge (roughly pronounced see-heng-eh) features a simple formula of rum made from fresh cane juice (fermented with wild yeast and pot distilled) which is infused with juice…
Ardbeg Committee releases are usually very involved whiskies showcasing unique production methods and exotic maturations paired with an elaborate backstory. For this latest limited edition, however, the iconic Islay distillery is getting back to basics, delivering a cask strength version of their classic 10-year-old single malt. And, apparently, it’s not for the first time. After…
Japan’s Fuji, well known for its single grain whisky collection, has made a rather natural expansion of late, moving into malted barley — a style for which Japan (and Scotland, of course) is much better known. The 100% Japanese malt whiskey is produced at Gotemba Distillery where it is distilled using a variety of still…
Yellowstone‘s new Recollection Series Bourbon was inspired not by a recipe or a person, but by a bottle. This striking decanter is a recreation of one that Yellowstone head honcho Steve Beam discovered on eBay. These incredibly lovely bottle designs were used in pre-Prohibition days back in the time when saloons would purchase whiskey by…