by Sara Havens | May 28, 2021 | Community, Whiskey Education
Find Upcoming Bourbon Women Events Here While we humans like to blur the concept of aging when it comes to our bodies. “Age is just a number,” or “We are always the same age inside,” or, my mantra, “We’re only as old as our knees” — aging in whiskey is just as...
by Sara Havens | May 21, 2021 | Community, Whiskey Education
Find Upcoming Bourbon Women Events Here In 2013, the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience swung open its doors on Louisville’s famed Main Street, bringing distillation back to Whiskey Row and turning up the heat on bourbon tourism, which had just begun to simmer. Now,...
by Susan Reigler | Apr 30, 2021 | Whiskey Education
Pretty much every whiskey lover knows that without the addition of yeast to the cooked mash, all you would have is a pretty tasty, multi-grain porridge. After the starches in the corn, rye, and malted barley are converted to sugar by the enzyme amylase released from...
by Sara Havens | Apr 23, 2021 | Whiskey Education
Find Upcoming Bourbon Women Events Here In 1984, a humble and spry distiller by the name of Elmer T. Lee launched the first modern bourbon brand marketed as a “single barrel” — Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon. Many bourbon historians credit this release as the spark...
by Susan Reigler | Feb 19, 2021 | Community, Whiskey Education
The general – and international – definition of whiskey is that it is a spirit made from grain, water, and yeast, is distilled at less than 190 proof, and stored in oak containers. Pretty basic. But there can be many, many variations on that theme and the most basic...
