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I don’t often write whiskey reviews, and interestingly enough, of the two or three actual posts reviewing whiskey (and/or a whiskey-based cocktail), one of them was also from Hood River Distillers. This latest review, on HRD’s Easy Rider Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, came out because the distillery launched a new … Continue reading
Last week, I received a sample kit of Easy Rider Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey from Hood River Distillers. The distillery is promoting the relaunch of the whiskey with a new label design, and the PR kit arrived in a toolbox, containing the bottle, a branded flask, a branded bar towel, … Continue reading
Black Butte Whiskey, the collaboration between Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery, returns for 2020—and this year for the first time, it’s the five-year aged version that will be available starting this Saturday, December 19. The duo first released the whiskey in 2016, in which the Bendistillery distilled a special batch of … Continue reading
Just before the start of the summer I received a promo package containing Hochstadter’s Slow & Low Rock and Rye, a pre-mixed old fashioned cocktail. In addition to the 750 ml bottle, the hook here is the single-serving 100 ml cans—perfect for portability, and of course my first thought was … Continue reading
A bit of a break from beer with another (canned) cocktail which arrived yesterday, Hochstadter’s Slow & Low Rock and Rye. This is essentially a pre-mixed old fashioned cocktail made with rye whiskey, and I’m always willing to try and write about such things here. Here’s a bit about Slow … Continue reading
Bend’s Deschutes Brewery once again collaborated with Bendistillery to produce a whiskey based on the brewery’s Black Butte Porter, the aptly named Black Butte Whiskey. This third release of the specialty spirit opens to the public on Wednesday, December 5, with bottles going on sale at the Deschutes Bend and … Continue reading
Here’s a new one: a hopped boilermaker. Courtesy of Double Mountain Brewery, it consists of a shot of Double Mountain Hopped Whiskey and a pint of Vaporizer Dry-Hopped Pale Ale. Of course, to properly drink a boilermaker, I believe you’re supposed to do the shot then drink the beer. Or … Continue reading
The Session is a collaborative beer blogging effort where many people write with the same topic in mind. This month, find out what I’m drinking when there’s not a beer in my hand.