Josh Peters

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1714 )

• Knob Creek Vintage 2001 Review

  

  Knob Creek Vintage 2001 is the oldest Knob Creek Jim Beam has ever released. At 14 years it sits a full 5 years above the average Knob Creek Small Batch, and... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 DRINK

• Jim Beam Distillery Tour – Part 1

  

  Last week I was invited out to the Jim Beam Distillery for a tour of their facility and to take part in the launch of the new Booker’s Rye. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 DRINK

• Booker’s Rye Review

  

  Booker’s Rye is a 13-year-old, cask strength, non-chill filtered rye whiskey that was laid down in 2003 by Booker Noe, the late Jim Beam Master Distiller. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 DRINK

• Old Potrero 18 Year Old Single Malt Hotaling’s Whiskey Review

  

  Old Potrero 18 Year Old Single Malt Hotaling’s Whiskey isn’t a single malt like we’ve come to expect. Instead of using 100% malted barley Anchor distilling... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2016 DRINK

• Woodstone Creek Bourbon Review

  

  Woodstone Creek Bourbon comes from Ohio’s first licensed microdistillery. What exactly does that mean? Well in the state of Ohio that mean the folks at Woodston... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 DRINK

• Forty Creek Confederation Oak Review

  

  Forty Creek Confederation Oak gets it’s name from the barrels it was aged in. All components of this whiskey spent some time aged in barrels made from Canadian... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 DRINK

• Pine Barrens American Single Malt Whisky Review

  

  Pine Barrens American Single Malt Whisky is another addition to the list of whiskeys that have been distilled from finished beer. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 DRINK

• Forty Creek Barrel Select Review

  

  To make the Forty Creek Barrel Select master distiller John Hall starts by distilling three different whiskies. A rye whisky, a barley whisky and a corn whisky... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 DRINK

• Corsair Grainiac Review

  

  Corsair Grainiac was an experiment gone right. The basic story as I hear it is that one day the Corsair lads were looking around the distillery and realized the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 DRINK

• Wyoming Whiskey Batch 25 Review

  

  My previous Wyoming Whiskey experience wasn’t the most positive so when I got the opportunity to try something from 7 batches later I was looking forward to... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 DRINK

• Armorik Millesime 2002 Review

  

  A few months ago I got the chance to try several Armorik releases and I enjoyed them all, but kept thinking that they’d be even better at a higher proof; enter... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 DRINK

• Samaroli Tomintoul 1967

  

  On the whole, Samaroli Tomintoul 1967 is a fairly rare whisky as historically Tomintoul has focused on making whisky for blends and an insignificant amount has... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 DRINK

• Samaroli Linkwood 1983 Review

  

  Samaroli Linkwood 1983 is an interesting dram from an interesting distillery. The legal Linkwood distillery has been around almost as long as the Glenlivet... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2016 DRINK

• The Jameson Caskmates KelSo Pale Ale Edition Review

  

  Jameson Caskmates Kelso Pale Ale Edition, like the Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition, is the typical Jameson Irish Whiskey that’s been finished in a craft beer... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 DRINK

• Glen Gyle 8 Years Review

  

  Glen Gyle 8 Years is a vatted (blended) malt whisky from the Loch Lomond Distillery Co. that used to be easily found, but has dwindled over the years. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 DRINK

• Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey Review

  

  Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey is made using 100% winter white wheat and on the whole it’s a fairly rare release as not a whole lot of people do a wheat whiskey. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 DRINK

• Longmorn 15 Review

  

  This older bottling of the Longmorn 15 years was replaced by the current Longmorn 16 a few years back. It’s not impossible to still spot these bottles from... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2016 DRINK

• Singleton of Auchroisk Review

  

  This Singleton of Auchroisk is the only whisky I’ve had from the Auchroisk distillery. It’s not a distillery with a big name and I’ve never heard of anyone... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 DRINK

• Old Fitzgerald Vertical Tasting

  

  We did this Old Fitzgerald vertical tasting as an event at the SoCal Whiskey Club a little while back and like all of the tasting we do with the club it was a... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2016 DRINK

• T.N.T Cocktail Recipe

  

  Like many Prohibition Era cocktails the T.N.T. Cocktail recipe is simple as can be and is a great way to gussy up low quality Canadian Whisky and mask some of... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2016 DRINK