This was the very first Bourbon that changed my opinion and taste buds and got me started with the Bourbon bug. After American Honey, you know. ? I actually haven’t had Basil Hayden’s since becoming obsessed with Bourbon, so it’s about time I went back to my roots. Let’s see how this goes… Basil Hayden […]
Read more "Review: Basil Hayden’s"Today is the anniversary of the first post here on Barrels and Mash, so I thought it would be nice to celebrate it by revisiting the history of why our little project here got started. Given that I love to ramble, this probably won’t be a short and sweet version of it either, so grab a nice […]
Read more "For the Love of Booze: The History of Barrels and Mash"A year ago today on May 22nd, 2015, I walked into my back yard with my brand new bottle of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Release #8 and my digital camera and took the pictures for the very first review here on Barrels and Mash. Now here we are, exactly one year later, and as I […]
Read more "Review: Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Release #11"We’ve had this bottle unopened for awhile just hanging out waiting to be reviewed. Finally, I said to Kris, I’ll do it! So, here we are. This is OK Barrel #1, location Warehouse L. Company: Brown-Foreman Distillery: Brown-Foreman Location: Shively, KY Mash bill: 72% corn/18% rye/10% barely Age: NAS ABV: 45% (90 proof) Released: Limited. […]
Read more "Review: Old Forester Single Barrel Oklahoma Edition"Before we get into what this whiskey is, let’s go ahead and start with the packaging on this bad boy. This stuff arrived in a cool box with slidey things and a door, and when you open it, the bottle is super classy with script writing and a little wax stamp. I wish we still […]
Read more "Review: Blood Oath Pact No. 2"Here at Barrels and Mash, we drink our fair share of Bourbon barrel-aged beers… in fact, we drink some other people’s fair share too. Obviously we can say the same for Bourbon, so when New Holland dumped barrels of their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Dragon’s Milk Stout and refilled them with whiskey, we wanted to drink that […]
Read more "Review: New Holland Beer Barrel Aged Bourbon"Anthem just released Batch 2 of their Uroburos Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels (Elijah Craig barrels, to be exact), and to be honest we are very excited. This is Anthem’s largest bottle release to date, by a large margin, with almost 5,000 bottles rolling out of the Downtown OKC brewery. We were hanging out in their taproom […]
Read more "Anthem Bourbon Barrel Uroburos Batch 1 and Batch 2 Vertical"Flights are a glorious thing (whiskey, beer, it’s all good). They’re a great way to sample multiple beverages without spending too much money and leaving too drunk (although that depends on how many flights you get, I guess). So when we heard that Pub W was starting a monthly whiskey flight we had to see what […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Field Trip: Whiskey Flights at Pub W"Sold only at the Maker’s Mark gift shop, this cask strength expression of Maker’s 46 was released in Fall of 2015 and is sold in 375ml bottles with zero shits given in regards to the label, which is white with plain black text. You would think a company that dips all their bottles in colored wax […]
Read more "Review: Maker’s 46 Cask Strength"Maker’s Mark made only one product for around 50 years before adding a second expression to their offerings. Maker’s 46 was released in 2010, and it’s the same whiskey as normal Maker’s with the only difference: an extra aging process. The whiskey is dumped at the same time as the normal expression (at around 5 or […]
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