by Don Williams | Oct 6, 2023 | Bourbon Information, Unique Bottles, Whiskey product review
Barrel finishing is now firmly part of the whiskey vernacular. The process of enhancing or changing the flavor profile of bourbon can take many forms. It can be as simple as adding toasted staves to mature whiskey, the process of Maker’s Mark Maker’s 46. You can use a...
by Don Williams | Dec 1, 2022 | Bourbon review, Bourbon Tasting, Distilleries, Michigan Distilleries
This week my good friend Charlie Berry and I did a review of honey bourbon that was interesting and local. Detroit City Distillery even has a tasting room in the historic Eastern Market. The more I thought about it, I realized that recently, we reviewed a similar...
by Don Williams | Nov 24, 2022 | Bourbon Information, Bourbon review, Whiskey
Lately, I have heard a lot about this relative newcomer to the whiskey barrel manufacturing arena. Their story is important, and their goal is to be a state-of-the-art barrel manufacturer that becomes an integral part of the distilled spirits industry. When I recently...
by Don Williams | Nov 26, 2021 | Bourbon Gifts, Bourbon review, Bourbon Tasting
This week on What’s New at Charlie’s – Barrel Finishing, we look at an excellent barrel-finished bourbon whiskey. This whiskey is a blend of seven and eleven-year-old Kentucky bourbons with low rye mash bills. The mature whiskey is then barrel...
by Don Williams | Oct 22, 2021 | Bourbon Information, Bourbon review, What's New at Charlie's
It began when a Vermont farm was purchased in 2007 and sold its first bottle of rye whiskey three years later. Whistle Pig began by using sourced whiskey and then barrel finishing the product using secondary barrels or casks. Approximately five years after releasing...
