Bacteria and Your Bourbon
Story and Figures Dr. Patrick Heist
Wait a minute! Did you just say there are bacteria in my bourbon? Due to the high alcohol content and the fact that alcohol is an antiseptic (it kills...
Celebrating Bottled in Bond Day
March 3rd marks 121 years since the passage of the Bottled-in-Bond Act. Find out what this still means for your Bourbon today!
Back before the days of carefully crafted whiskey and Bourbon made by some...
14 Quirky Liquor Laws Across the Country
Kentucky’s liquor laws have certainly run the gamut over the last century. During Prohibition, some distilleries, notably the one today named Buffalo Trace, remained open to produce Bourbon for “medicinal purposes,” while others shuttered...
Back to Bourbon School
Midway University’s new MBA specialization offers students the chance to participate in Kentucky’s booming Bourbon world.
For a Bourbon lover, visiting different distilleries can be considered a type of religious experience. Stitzel-Weller, for example, touts...
Bourbon SATs – The 7 Vocab Words You Might Not Know
Calm those pre-test jitters with a Bourbon neat, and test your Bourbon smarts with a little vocabulary quiz! While some of these terms come naturally to the Bourbon drinker, others are more obscure.
1. Cenosillicaphobia...
Kentucky’s Bourbon History (Part II)
Part of Kentucky's 225th Birthday Celebration
By Carla Carlton
Excerpted from "Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America's Whiskey" (Clerisy Press, 2017)
The second in a two part series. Read Part II here.
By the 1970s, bourbon...
Bourbon Basics – American White Oak Barrels
Head back to Bourbon school with The Bourbon Review all throughout the month of August! Today, we'll talk some science about the American White Oak wood used and charred in all Bourbon barrels.
So why...
Nine Things You Might Not Know About Bourbon
Back to school season is here, and we're taking it back to basics every week in August at the Bourbon Review. While some of our expert readers may not be surprised at this list,...
