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American Whiskey Heritage: Discovering the Distilling Tradition of Bourbon and RyeFollowing on from our Short History of Scotch Whisky, today, we’re taking a look at another country with a rich whiskey heritage… America. The country’s most prominent styles, bourbon and…
10 More Underrated Whisky BlendsYou guys enjoyed it when we suggested 10 underrated whisky blends for you last year. So, in the spirit of ‘if ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, here are a further 10…
Tasting Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and other Heaven Hill WhiskeysThe other day we were having a conversation here at Master of Malt about good value whiskey, as we often do. One thing we all agreed is that you get…
10 Great American Whiskeys To Celebrate The 4th JulyToday we’re rounding up some of our favourite bottles from the US of A, as that great nation prepares to celebrate its Independence Day. Here are ten great American whiskeys…
Beer-Focused Whiskies: Going With The GrainA new philosophy is bubbling its way into whisky creation: ‘beer-first’ liquid. Move over maturation – drinkable wash, with a focus on grains and yeast, is moving to the fore…
How to Pair Beer and Whiskey with FEW SpiritsGrain. Yeast. Water. You can make some truly sensational stuff with just those three ingredients. Beer, for one. Whiskey, for another. In fact, in a sense whiskey is distilled beer….
Toasts Over Tariffs: American Whiskey’s Cause For OptimismWe spent an evening at the US Embassy with the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. to raise a glass to celebrate the long-awaited end of tariffs on American Whiskey…
10 American Whiskeys to Celebrate the 4 JulyIt’s time to chuck some tea in the river, mutter darkly about ‘redcoats’ and buy an enormous pick-up truck because American independence day is on the horizon. Yea haw! Or…
Heaven Hill To Build New $135m DistilleryHeaven Hill is to revive its whiskey production in its hometown of Bardstown, Kentucky by building a new $135 million distillery. One of the world’s largest bourbon producers is getting even…
Charm on the Farm: Keeping WhistlePig Local and Global with Moët HennessyAt the tail-end of 2020 it was announced that WhistlePig would be partnering with Moët Hennessy – given that its rye whiskey is all about farm to bottle, how will…
The Nightcap: 18 MarchShedloads of valuable American whisky goes under the hammer, racing driver Jenson Button releases blended Scotch, and a vodka to raise money for the Red Cross Ukraine Appeal. All this…
Five Minutes with… Fawn Weaver, Founder of Uncle Nearest WhiskeyFawn Weaver is the woman who brought the story of the great whiskey maker the world never knew to light. But ever since its inception, Uncle Nearest has done more…
MoM Loves: Rabbit Hole WhiskeyKaveh Zamanian fell in love with a Kentucky native and then its bourbon. Then he went down the rabbit hole and came out the other side with an ambitious and…
Bourbon innovationIf you think bourbon is a static category, then think again. From cask finishes to heirloom grains, this formerly conservative whiskey is now a hotbed of experimentation. Lauren Eads takes…
Westward Whiskey: A Distillery with a Brewer’s MentalityBefore Covid, Kristiane Sherry visited America’s craft beer capital, Portland, Oregon, to visit Westward Whiskey where the team makes a single malt heavily influenced by their city’s brewing heritage. “It’s…
What to expect from: O’Shaughnessy DistilleryWhiskey fans are always excited about the arrival of a new distillery. But the opening of the doors at the O’Shaughnessy Distilling Company in August is more hotly anticipated than…
