I recently wrote this piece for Alcohol Professor on some of the newest American bourbon and whiskey releases.
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Throughout the past 20 years, the spirit industry’s average annual growth was 5.5% compared to 7.3% in the past five years.
CaskX officially joined the bourbon industry in early 2021 when it purchased new-make barrels from Kentucky Artisan Distillery.
Is Tennessee whiskey bourbon?
Once again CaskX has gotten some media attention, this time from a leading whiskey industry insider, The Whiskey Wash.
Let’s take a look at what constitutes a bourbon, and how that differs from other whiskey categories.
In the last five years, more than 2.5 million visitors have traveled to Kentucky to experience the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
The focus of this piece is on Kentucky and, more specifically, the craftmanship of distillers that can be found in their limited-edition offerings.
While bourbon must contain at least 51% corn, what distillers do with the other 49% is what separates one brand from another.
Experts and industry insiders agree that this so-called “Bourbon Boom” is here to stay, and whiskey lovers around the world wouldn’t have it any other way.