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).
13 years after its founding (and 12 years after its first whiskey went into barrels), Wilderness Trail is launching a new series of single barrel whiskeys under the Family Reserve banner. These are all cask strength releases, non-chill-filtered, and created with a sweet mash instead of a sour mash. They are all aged in barrels…
On December 18, 2024, American single malt whiskey finally earned its long-awaited official status, receiving formal recognition from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) as a distinct category of American whiskey. For most producers, the newly established standards of identity were already familiar—many had been adhering to them voluntarily for years—so the…
Golf+whiskey mania continues this month with the arrival of a special release of Elijah Craig, designed to pay homage to the 2023 Ryder Cup. This isn’t just another spin on Elijah Craig Barrel Proof but rather quite a unique product, starting with fully-matured Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon that is then finished in, and I…
For nearly a decade now, Baltimore’s Sagamore Spirit (now just Sagamore) has been singularly focused on making their Maryland-style rye, at first from contract-distilled spirit and more recently with their own stocks of Maryland-distilled whiskey. Reviving the lost tradition of Maryland rye has been their bread and butter. So, it was something of surprise to…
In 2023, Old Overholt dropped a 10 year old cask strength version of its classic rye, and in 2024 it hit again with an 11 year old. What’s in store for 2025 you can probably guess: cask strength rye at 12 years of age. Old Overholt‘s mashbill isn’t formally disclosed, but we do know this…
Jim Beam is one of the most famed distilleries when it comes to novelty bottles. In fact, they released more than 3,000 unique decanters from the 1940s to the 1990s, many of which you can check out in person if you visit the distillery. The bowling pin decanter is one of Beam’s classics, and to…
We’re increasingly fascinated with the high-grade whiskey that Still Austin is putting out — and it’s all only getting better, and older. Today we look at the fall releases from the Texas operation, including the oldest whiskey it’s ever produced. Both are bonded releases, 100 proof. Still Austin Bottled in Bond Straight Bourbon 7 Years…
Did 2025 turn out the way you were expecting it to? The world’s gone so insane that, at this point, I don’t think anything that happens in the next 12 months could possibly surprise us. Did you also get the memo that the alcohol business is in massive decline? Turns out people stopped drinking, just…
When most people are asked to name American towns long intertwined with distillation, the conversation almost always turns to Bardstown or Lynchburg. Their reputations are well-earned. Yet few would instinctively point to Providence, Rhode Island — a city whose past is steeped just as deeply in spirited enterprise. In the colonial era, Providence operated as…
This is the fourth time in as many years that Wild Turkey has taken a trip to its Camp Nelson campus for a single rickhouse special edition. This year’s drop comes from building E, specifically the fifth floor. Some details on the particulars of the building: When it came to exploring this year’s release, Master…