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).
For 2025, Jack Daniel’s added two very different experimental whiskeys to its impressive Distillery Series: The first was a well-aged bottling of its classic Tennessee whiskey recipe, but with a rather important and unprecedented distinction. Jack begins each distilling season with a limited run of sweet mash to produce the setback needed for their standard…
Fredericksburg, Texas is known as Central Texas’s wine country, but it’s also the home of Salvation Spirits, which in 2021 began producing vodka and gin. Today we’re looking at Fritztown Gin, its most straightforward of three gin offerings. The company is cagey about its botanicals, describing the gin as being made “with traditional elements, Texas…
Come mister tally man, tally me banana! Banana liqueur tends to be one of those unsung cocktail ingredients that few give much serious thought to. A splash of something yellow to give a cocktail a vague tropicality, right? Think again. Banana liqueur has entered its own small renaissance, and mixologists are discovering myriad uses for…
Providence’s Distillerie de Port-au-Prince is one of the smallest rum distilleries in the world, which means your chances of discovering its products are probably very low. The good news is that LM&V is bringing two expressions of the rum to the U.S., though it does not carry any of LM&V’s branding. We received small samples…
It’s been 10 years since we tasted Angostura’s 1824 rum expression, one of its top offerings, named in honor of the year of the founding of the distillery (and bitters producer) in Trinidad & Tobago. Let’s crack a fresh bottle and see if anything has changed in the last decade. Angostura Caribbean Rum 1824 (2025)…
Pinhook is one of those distilleries (a la Barrell) that has so many iterations on so many expressions that it’s difficult to keep up with them all. Today we’re checking in with two offerings from the busy blender, including its latest Collaboration Series offering and our first encounter with its Vertical Series Bourbon. Pinhook Collaboration…
Oddly, High West’s first bonded whiskey wasn’t a bourbon but a rye, which arrived in 2024. It took another couple of years for the natural follow-up, a bourbon, to finally hit the market. The whiskey is made entirely by High West in Utah and from an unusual, barley-free mashbill of 64% corn and 36% rye.…
Ready for a pair of more limited Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey reviews? Allow me to explain… We missed Diamond Peak 2024 but we’re back to it with 2025, which is a doozy, paying homage to Stranahan’s brewing heritage. For this release, Stranahan’s partnered with four local breweries, giving them each ex-Stranahan’s casks that were first seasoned…
It’s never not a treat to sample Hampden‘s annual grand finale release, Great House, an ever-changing blend that has often ranked among our favorite rums of the year. 2025’s Great House includes only minimal production info, just that it’s a blend of “several marks of different vintages,” all pot distillate aged in ex-bourbon casks in country.…
You’ve sifted through the bourbon offerings in the under $50 segment. What about something that’s a little more upmarket? Just a little more upscale than 50 bucks can get you? With this story, we’re raising the stakes on the best bourbons on the market, and setting our maximum price at $100. As you can imagine,…