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).
A distinctive aspect of Colorado based Spirit Hound Distillery’s Single Malt Whisky is that they don’t blend their whisky barrels to create a house profile. Instead, all of their whiskies are drawn from single barrels. This means great variation can be found among bottles drawn from different barrels and two people trying the brand might…
“Where the volcano erupts, a new tequila is born.” So goes the slogan of Volcan de Mi Tierra, a new line of luxury tequilas that have been flying a bit below the radar. Is the name too much to say? Or is it just a discovery yet to be made by tequila connoisseurs? Either way,…
When Dave Broom published The Way of Whisky in 2017, the book wasn’t so much a seismic shift, but more like a pivot point in spirits writing. Before that, Japanese whisky was admired, sometimes fetishized in incredibly weird ways, but rarely presented with the seriousness English-language readers expect from Scotch or bourbon. Alongside Stefan Van…
Founded in 2017 by legendary musician Neil Giraldo, Three Chord Bourbon has always indeed struck a chord between music and whiskey. From its inception, the brand has drawn deep inspiration from the rhythms, stories, and soul of music culture. One of Three Chord’s most notable achievements was the Backstage Series, a project that brought together…
Ten years is a long time to do anything. Aging whiskey? Fuggedaboudit. New Riff Distilling got its start in 2014 and went right to work putting its whiskey to sleep in Kentucky rickhouses. Now, two of those whiskeys have just crossed the 10 year old threshold, and New Riff has them available as limited editions…
We first tried a gin produced by the As Above, So Below distillery last year, and loved it: Their Sigil Gin landed in our list of top ten gins for 2024. The distillery’s early success makes sense since its Master Distiller, Carley Shoemaker, earned her bona fides over the course of many year at the…
Another Kentucky Bourbon Festival is in the books, and if the bourbon industry has gone bust, you wouldn’t be able to tell it from the throngs at the sold-out three-day takeover of Bardstown, Kentucky, ground zero for America’s spirit. The lines to get in, as usual, wrapped around the block. The lines to buy prized,…
Bardstown Bourbon Co. isn’t slow rolling their new Distillery Reserve Series, launching a second release only five months after the impressive debut of Cathedral French Oak Finish (with a third reportedly planned for the winter). For the sequel, the team in Bardstown looked even further afield than France for an exceptional finishing cask, selecting rare…
While it was released in the UK and EU in 2024, Bushmills waited almost a year before dropping its 26 year old Crystal Malt in the United States. Common in beermaking, crystal malts are a type of caramel malt in which wet barley is allowed to sprout and is then heated at various levels in…
Hot on the heels of its new Bottled in Bond selection, Jack Daniel’s is out with another release. This one is going to be far more prized than the Bonded expression (which is now a permanent offering), with just 200 barrels’ worth of this “Heritage Barrel” offering on the market. JD explains what that is:…