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).
This is one I sure didn’t see coming. Plymouth‘s new gin expression is infused with, well, you already figured it out — honey. Originally a limited release in the UK in 2023, it’s dropping in the U.S. for summer 2026, complete with a Bee’s Knees cocktail kit from Cocktail Courier that includes lemon and honey…
As far as I can tell, Spinnaker is the only rum company based in Austin, Texas (it’s also the smallest), where Drinkhacker HQ currently resides. It’s not a distiller, mind you, but an independent bottler, very much in the vein of Holmes Cay and LM&V. Spinnaker has a clear focus, taking single barrels of premium…
What makes a reposado and reposado gran reserva? El Tequileno‘s latest repo is aged for at least 8 months in American oak and is blended with a small amount of anejo. That’s distinguished from the distillery’s standard reposado, which is aged for 3 months, and its Reposado Rare bottling, which spends 6 years in a…
The use of barrels toasted with hot volcanic rocks are, believe it or not, not a new idea, as Dewar’s dropped a magma-toasted barrel bottling last year. That’s not going to dull our enthusiasm for this release from Talisker, though, which at 47 years of age is the oldest distillery release to date and one…
Bourbon nerds love to wax poetic about a specific release of Wild Turkey from the 1980s and ’90s, affectionately called “Cheesy Gold Foil” because of its gaudy gold label, one which was clearly trying much too hard for an otherwise straightforward 12 year old release. (That said, Eddie Russell has reportedly stated that the release…
In a recent review, we noted that Rampur Indian Whisky was starting to expand their offerings. Introducing Royal Ranthambore. This new whisky is distilled and distributed by Radico Khaitan, which is the new name for what was previously the Rampur Distillery. Royal Ranthambore is unusual in that it is a blended whiskey that includes neutral…
Out of Iowa’s Cedar Ridge comes another edition of “Pete & Sherri Married,” a single malt blend meant to capture the best of the distillery’s peated and sherried liquid streams. The series initially launched in 2019 and returned later with a 1st Anniversary bottling. This latest 2026 version is titled “2nd Anniversary,” a 114.4 proof…
Last year, Four Roses rebooted its single barrel program with the launch of the Single Barrel Collection, a revolving set of whiskeys that highlight each of its 10 classic recipes, three bottles at a time. Now under its new ownership (Gallo), the company is back with three more bottles for 2026, each 7 to 9…
If you remember that Sean Connery played Indiana Jones’s father, then the idea of Harrison Ford stumping for Scotchmaker Glenmorangie makes more sense than you might think. Now the spokesperson for the brand, and the star of a series of ads for the whisky, Ford is putting his stamp on the liquid itself with his…
There’s no whisky company that loves special releases more than Diageo, and for summer 2026, it’s bringing us a brand new series of ultra-rare offerings to salivate over. The new Diageo Rare & Exceptional Series is awfully precious: It’s only going to be sold through Diageo’s Private Client network, not standard retail channels. The inaugural…