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).
Not technically a bourbon or a rye, Sour Mash remains one of Michter’s well-kept secrets and helps to set the brand apart from other, more straightforward American whiskey lineups. The Toasted Barrel Finish expression of this whiskey, which arrived in its third installment in September, is even more unique. As with all other Toasted takes,…
Milam & Greene is well-known for its melding of the whiskeys of Kentucky and Texas (and sometimes Tennessee) into enchanting blends that straddle the regions from whence they are born. Master blender Heather Greene also regularly touts her unique “Texification” approach, which involves bringing Kentucky distillate to age for years in the blazing Texas heat,…
Olujo is a new tequila brand founded by entrepreneur Adam Weitsman, in collaboration with Larsa Pippen and Oliver Camilo, “crafted with purpose, aged for perfection” … and priced to the moon. Available in a single expression for the moment — anejo — the tequila hails from Los Altos agave, is cooked in autoclaves, double pot-distilled,…
Jack Daniel’s is more than just Old No. 7. While that world famous Tennessee whiskey – a bourbon at its core – remains the distillery’s bread and butter, they’ve spent more than a decade perfecting their rye whiskey. We saw the promise in early, younger expressions of their high rye mashbill (70% rye, 18% corn,…
Lágrimas del Valle (“tears of the valley”) launched a few years back with the goal of showcasing “single ranches” of blue agave to showcase how terroir influences tequila. It recently launched its fourth and fifth ranch, with 2024’s La Loma and La Sabina joining Palo Verde (2022), El Chiqueño (2022), and El Sabino (2023). La…
Any spirits fan knows that Advent calendars are popular holiday offerings, a handy way for spirits fans to get their hands on single-serve size bottles of a products they probably wouldn’t ordinarily purchase — or, more to the point, have someone purchase for them. Flaviar is the first merchant out of the gate this year,…
Jefferson’s is out with a new super premium bourbon release – its first in quite a while – and it comes with some interesting history and a charitable initiative, to boot. Jefferson’s Marian McLain honors the 8th generation grandmother of Jefferson’s founder, Trey Zoeller, who seems like she was quite the character in her day.…
Launched in 2019 by Latitude Beverages, Wheel Horse Whiskey has charted its own course from the beginning. Proudly transparent in its process, Wheel Horse blends bourbon and rye distilled in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the historic DSP-KY-10 — the 10th oldest registered distillery in the state, founded in 1885. Once matured in western Kentucky, the barrels…
Chapter 9 of Freddie Noe’s Little Book project “takes us back several decades, to an era when whiskey as we know it was just finding its feet.” That’s the conceit for this blend of (mostly) bourbon and rye, which showcases “the backbone of American whiskey,” per the brand. What’s in the blend this year is…
“Amarno” is not a typo. Rather, it’s a clever portmanteau of amaro and, well, no, part of the growing N/A amaro space. Dr. Zero Zero is a “100% Italian” product, and it refreshingly includes all of the ingredients on the label, which include water, sugar, extracts of sage, quassia, wormwood, Chinese rhubarb, orange, and caramelized…