Richard Thomas

Lexington

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Owner and Editor-in-Chief at The Whiskey Reviewer

Articles

Michter’s Barrel Strength Rye Whiskey Review (2024)

May 2, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in B, Between $91 to $120, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B+The Whiskey Reviewer could be said to have a love affair with Michter’s Barrel Strength Rye.
Bulleit Manhattan Cocktail Review

Apr 29, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in B, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey Cocktails By Richard ThomasRating: B+One of the better things to come out of the Pandemic and its associated lockdowns were the rise of good pre-mixed, bottled or canned cocktails. Stop and consider that the mixology boom was well under way thirteen years ago, when we first reported on how that boom was sweeping rye whiskey from store shelves.
Busting The Biggest Myth Of Tennessee Whiskey

Apr 24, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas |Tennessee Whiskey

By Richard ThomasOne of the ugly little secrets of sensory science is just how much the senses of taste and smell can be influenced by preconceptions. Ideally, this reality can be guarded against, and it’s what makes the notion of the blind taste test so interesting. The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 was the earliest lesson of just how snobbery and closure to new concepts can condition and blinker people who are supposed to be expert and rational in a given field, opening the door to biases.
Town Branch 7 Year Old Single Malt Review

Apr 23, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in American Malt, B, Between $31 to $60, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B+Lexington Brewing & Distilling’s Town Branch 7 Year Old Single Malt is a product of brewstilling synergy. Whether the whiskey was made with the distillery’s pot still is unknown, but what is known is that it was aged for seven-plus years in old Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale barrels.
Jim Beam Kentucky Coolers Review

Apr 23, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in Beer, Food & Wine, C By Richard ThomasRating: C-In introducing the new drinks line in early 2023, Jim Beam declared that, come summertime, Kentuckians like to drink lemonade or fruit punch with bourbon on their front porches. Well, I’m a born and bred Kentucky horse farmer’s son, and I prefer to make mules with our native Ale-8-One or mint juleps, but I won’t quibble beyond that.
High West Bottled in Bond Rye Whiskey Review

Apr 17, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in Between $61 to $90, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B+Utah’s High West earned its reputation as a fan favorite through their transparency. The company was among those that tried and proved the path of using sourced whiskey to develop a brand while mustering the resources and expertise to build a working distillery, develop whiskeys and mature them.
Bourbonola Bourbon & Cherry Cola Review

Apr 16, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

By Richard ThomasRating: A-Bourbonola is a nod to the long history of the Lexington Brewing Company. By that, I don’t mean the modern company, which was established in 1999 and is very much a creation of the late period of the Craft Beer 1.0 era. There is an earlier Lexington Brewing Company, one that got its start in the 1890s. Like many breweries around the country, the company struggled to survive Prohibition.
Clermont Steep American Single Malt Whiskey Review

Apr 14, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in American Malt, B, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B-Although some folks think malt whiskey is a thing best left to the Scots, Irish and the rest of the world, and Americans ought to stay out of it, the American Single Malt is on the precipice of becoming a thing.
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Bourbon Review (January 2024)

Apr 11, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in B, Between $61 to $90, Bourbon Whiskey, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B+When Heaven Hill finally took the 12 year age statement off Elijah Craig Barrel Proof last year, several years after taking the Elijah Craig Small Batch no age statement in 2016, it was an even noteworthy for just how little comment it attracted.
Bruichladdich Re/Define 30 Scotch Review

Apr 10, 2024 | whiskeyreviewer.com | Richard Thomas

in Scotch Whisky, Whiskey Reviews By Richard ThomasRating: B+This is one of a pair of expressions released by Islay distillery Bruichladdich in early 2024 as part of a “Luxury Redefined” series. The whiskies represented two sides of a pivot point in Bruichladdich history. The distillery was mothballed for several years, covering the mid- to late 1990s, with production restarting in 2000.