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).
21 Seeds is a now well-established brand of flavored tequila made with all-natural fruit infusions. Available in three flavors — Valencia Orange, Grapefruit Hibiscus, and Cucumber Jalapeño — the tequila is “cultivated from a proprietary blend of agaves from the lowland and highland regions of Jalisco” and bottled without the addition of high fructose corn…
It’s hard to believe but Luxco’s Blood Oath is now on its 11th round, and this expression turns to the sorta-trending use of tequila as a finishing barrel. This year’s blend features a marriage of two bourbons — a 14-year-old ryed bourbon and a 10-year-old wheated bourbon. These are unfinished, but the duo is then…
The latest in Michter’s long-running lineup of 10 year old single barrel bourbons is here. As Michter’s notes, there’s no set schedule for these releases, though summertime is a good bet for when they arrive. (That said, Michter’s skipped a release in 2022.) The good news is that the whiskey has made it, and little in…
Ross & Squibb (nee MGP) Master Distiller Ian Stirsman has already proven he knows how to blend a great bourbon (Repeal Reserve being a particular favorite), but he hasn’t had the chance to really innovate much in Lawrenceburg. That appears to be changing now with the launch of a new experimental series from the distillery…
We’ve covered various spirits from Jackson, Mississippi-based Cathead on multiple occasions — including everything from whiskey to gin — but this is only the second vodka from the operation that we’ve tasted, following its Pecan Flavored Vodka. Hoodoo isn’t formally a liqueur but an espresso flavored vodka, made with coffee from Northshore Specialty Coffee, which…
Jefferson’s Reserve — the high-end, flagship sub-brand of the well-traveled Jefferson’s whiskey line — just got its latest expression, a cask strength offering of its Kentucky straight bourbon. Jefferson’s Reserve Cask Strength is a limited edition expression of 8 year old, unfiltered Kentucky stock sourced from an unnamed distillery. While we’re here, we’re also taking…
Tres Generaciones is an old school tequila brand. The premium offering from the Sauza portfolio launched in 1977 when it was difficult to find many tequila options at most American bars. How times have changed. We first reviewed the core portfolio – plata, reposado, and anejo – back in 2009, and even in that time,…
Like so many stories, Atost was launched during the pandemic of 2020 by two California natives, Cindy and Kyle Pressman. Cindy’s grandparents, agave farmers migrated from Mexico to work in the citrus fields of California. The Pressmans wished to create a product that would celebrate their hometown of Ventura, California but also honor Cindy’s heritage…
We thought that we had diligently kept up with Midleton’s “Spot” whiskeys over the years, but we completely missed the youngster in the lineup. This 7-year-old release got quite a bit of buzz when it relaunched in 2020. And rightly so. It had been over five decades (!) since the last Blue Spot release, and…
When I traveled to Islay last summer, I had two goals for my visit to the iconic Ardbeg Distillery. One was to see the brand new stillhouse, which had effectively doubled Ardbeg’s production capability, and the other was to meet the guy that ran the place, Colin Gordon. I knew he had bounced between Islay…