Knob Creek 12-Year-Old Cask Strength Bourbon

At just a hair over six feet tall, I am not the tallest person in the world, but I am the tallest in my family. I could literally look over a sea of in-laws, back when we could have holiday gatherings. I wasn’t just taller, but taller by a foot or more in some cases.

That’s right, I married into a family of short people.

And I’m here to tell you that this is a great thing. Sure, my wife asks me to get things off of the top shelf all the time but in return, I get a little something too. I have someone who can easily look on the bottom shelf at stores. Which is how we found this particular bottle.

We were at Total Wine to grab a handle of Wild Turkey 101. At $31 per 1.75-liter bottle, it’s the cheapest way to stock up on Wild Turkey within easy driving distance. And, as you do, as long as I was there I needed to browse the shelves. I noticed a couple of facings of Knob Creek 12-year-old down on the bottom shelf but didn’t think much of them as I’d already had it.

My wife, however, being much closer to the ground, noticed that each of the facings had a different price. One is almost twice the price of the other. After she pointed this out to me, I needed to take a closer look. It turns out that what I thought was two facings of Knob Creek 12 year old was in fact one facing of Knob Creek 12-year-old and one of Knob Creek 12-year-old Cask Strength. Obviously, this bottle came home with me.

I don’t feel too bad though as I’ve heard from friends that they also noticed the price difference without noticing the proof difference. To be fair to all of us, the labels look a lot alike. But enough of what the labels look like, let’s see how this one tastes.

Knob Creek 12-Year-Old Cask Strength Bourbon, Limited Edition

Purchase Info: $92.99 for a 750 mL bottle at Total Wine, Burnsville, MN

Price per Drink (50mL): $6.20

Details: 60.25% ABV. 12 years old.

Nose: Caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla

Mouth: Spicy heat. Vanilla, caramel, oak, cinnamon red hots.

Finish: Medium to long with a big hit of oak initially which fades to reveal lingering cinnamon and mint.

Thoughts: I love this one. It's thick and chewy with the stereotypical bourbon notes that I just love. Damn. I really wish that I'd have bought two of these. But I'm guessing that my wife would have shot down the idea of spending about $250 when we had anticipated $35. Still though...

Later that day: OK, I couldn’t help myself. Right after I typed that, I went and looked at my local liquor store (Viking Liquor Barrel, Prior Lake, MN). And huzzah! They had it too. So I grabbed another one. This one had a higher proof (124.3) and a lower price ($84.99). I tasted them side-by-side and they are very similar with the higher proof one being a touch hotter and brighter. Still love it though. Really glad I got my hands on a second one.

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The Whiskeys of Luca Mariano

I’d like to thank the folks at Luca Mariano Distillery for providing these review samples with no strings attached.

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Last month, the folks at the Luca Mariano Distillery reached out to me to see if I would be interested in taking a look at their products. Of course, I said yes. And once it arrived, I was surprised to find five different whiskeys in the box. So since we have a lot to get through tonight, let’s cut straight to the chase.

First, though, I was looking at their website and couldn’t find the answer so I reached out to them and asked for clarification as to whether they were distilling their own juice yet. Here is what they had to say:

Our distillery is currently under construction, so Wilderness Trail Distillery is currently distilling our mashbills for us.

I absolutely love the transparency. And heck Wilderness Trail is a good choice for a production partner as well. So without further adieu, let’s see what we are looking at tonight.

Old Americana Small Batch Bourbon

Purchase Info: This sample was graciously provided by the distillery for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $44.99

Price per Drink (50 mL): $3.00

Details: 41.5% ABV. 4.5 years old. Currently available in Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina and online through Woods Wholesale Wine

Nose: Vanilla, mint, cinnamon, and toffee.

Mouth: Thin on the month with notes of cinnamon, toffee, and a hint of bitter oak.

Finish: Gentle and on the shorter end of medium. Lingering notes of cinnamon and bitter oak.

Thoughts: This is a bit meh for me. Especially for the price. As I grade on a curve, if this were a $20 whiskey it might grade higher. That said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this, it just doesn't align with my preferences. It's thinner on the mouthfeel than I'd like and the bitter note of the oak makes it taste a bit over-diluted. Especially for a $45 bottle. What flavors are there make me interested to try the higher proof offering though based on what is shown in this one.

Luca Mariano Single Barrel Bourbon

Thoughts: Let me start out by saying that I am not giving this one tasting notes or a rating. When this arrived the cover was loosened (though the seal was unbroken) and leaking and after tasting it, I'm guessing it was contaminated by contact with the wet packing materials. I tried to take notes around the off, almost "meaty, moldy" taste but can't guarantee I did right by the product. The suggested pricing is $59.99. Let's move on to the next one.

Luca Mariano Signature Single Barrel Bourbon

Purchase Info: This sample was graciously provided by the distillery for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $64.99

Price per Drink (50 mL): $4.33

Details: 53.5% ABV. 5.5 years old. Currently available in Michigan, Kentucky, and online through Woods Wholesale Wine

Nose: Brown Sugar, mint, almond.

Mouth: The hard Bazooka Joe Bubblegum from my childhood, mint, and cinnamon.

Finish: Warm and medium length. Sweet with almond and cinnamon.

Thoughts: This one is very good. Took me right back to my childhood and stuffing my little month with two or three pieces of Bazooka Joe bubble gum. Only now it's alcoholic! Seriously though, I really like this. Drinkable at 107 proof when served neat. Water brings out more caramel on the nose and more spice in the month. I’d buy this one if I saw it on the shelf.

Old Americana Small Batch Rye (Luca Mariano Small Batch Rye prior to an April 2021 Rebrand)

Purchase Info: This sample was graciously provided by the distillery for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $44.99

Price per Drink (50 mL): $3.00

Details: 95% Rye Mashbill. 41.5% ABV. 4.5 years old. Currently available in Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina and online through Woods Wholesale Wine

Nose: Cedar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and mint.

Mouth: Thin mouthfeel. Cool mint transitions to cinnamon red hots.

Finish: Gentle and short. Follows the nose with mint, cedar, and cinnamon.

Thoughts: Once again, the thin mouthfeel on this one is kind of a turn off for me, but I could see this acting well as a "card playing" rye where you don't really want to contemplate what is in your glass, instead just wanting a little social lubricant. But that would only be the case if it were priced lower. Once again. Nothing wrong with it, just not to my palate.

Luca Mariano Single Barrel Rye

Purchase Info: This sample was graciously provided by the distillery for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $59.99

Price per Drink (50 mL): $4.00

Details: 51.5% ABV. 5.5 years old. Currently available in Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina and online through Woods Wholesale Wine

Nose: Cedar, mint, honey, and nutmeg.

Mouth: Follows the nose with cedar, mint, cinnamon, and a nice spicy heat.

Finish: Warm and medium length. Notes of cinnamon, cedar, and mint.

Thoughts: Classic rye notes predominate. I like this one a lot. This tastes like the perfect proof level for this whiskey. Nice mouthfeel, heat, and flavor. I’d be happy with this purchase if I found it on the shelf.

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Wilderness Trail "Silver Label" 6-Year-Old Bourbon

Right now I am in the process of smoking my third ever brisket. I’m usually more of a pork butt guy, but I saw this at my local supermarket and felt like it needed to come home with me. Mostly because they never have cuts of meat that I’d want to smoke and, well, it’s cold out and I just plain miss smoking meat. (Though it is probably about right to smoke some cheese…guess I need to buy some more cheese.)

I don’t usually do brisket for a couple of reasons, one is that pork butt is cheaper than brisket and since I like them about the same, it is a better value for me. But the other is that I’ve never gotten brisket quite right. Now don’t get me wrong, it always tastes good. Just not as good as the stuff other people make. I know that comes with practice, but at eight to nine bucks per pound? Nah, I’ll practice on something else. I just don’t have the time or money to invest in that sort of thing.

Which sounds like a lot of people who used to get into the craft distillery business. Many of them didn’t have the time or money to put out a good product so they ended up putting out inferior ones and just hoped for the best. Some of those places weathered that, but most didn’t.

And then there were those who came along and had the money to have the time to put out a fully matured product. Those like Wilderness Trail, the producer of tonight’s bourbon. They wanted to put out a Bottled-in-Bond bourbon and, luckily they had the time to invest in the product. And the result was the yellow-labeled Wilderness Trail Single Barrel Bourbon. A single-barrel wheated bourbon produced using a sweet mash process. A very good bourbon that I enjoy quite a bit.

And now that even more time has passed we are treated to an even older version of that same bourbon. Their recent Silver Label Bourbon release is still wheated using the same mash bill: 64% corn, 24% wheat, and 12% malted barley. It still uses the sweet mash process. It’s just now six years old. Let’s see if it was worth the wait.

Wilderness Trail "Silver Label" Bottled-in-Bond 6- year-old Bourbon

Purchase Info: $79.99 for a 750 mL bottle at Binny’s Beverage Depot, Bloomington, IL

Price per Drink (50 mL): $5.33

Details: 50% ABV. Mash bill: 64% Corn, 24% Wheat, 12% Malted Barley. 6 years old.

Nose: A delicate mix of cinnamon, vanilla, cherry, and mint

Mouth: Cherry, cinnamon, caramel, cooked cereal, and a little mint.

Finish: Warm and medium length. Notes of warm caramel and cinnamon and just a hint of mint.

Comparison to Yellow Label: Yellow label shows more dried corn on the nose. The mouth of the yellow label is sweeter and fruitier with more grain influence.

Thoughts: The 6-year-old Wilderness Trail bourbon is a really nice upgrade to the standard single barrel yellow-label release. As is to be expected, the barrel influence is more pronounced leading to a drier and more refined bourbon. I really like this one.

Now here’s hoping my brisket turns out just as well.

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New Riff Maltster Bourbon with Malted Wheat

Well, here we are, the last post of 2020. It’s been a real shit show of a year, hasn’t it? But hopefully, you have made it through with only minimal hardships. I was one of the lucky ones. Although one of my businesses brought in only $75 one month, and about half of what I’d expected for the rest of the year, we made it through. Mostly because my other business deals with advertising for plumbing and HVAC (a type of business that wants to continually remind you via advertising that they are essential).

I want to wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I’ve decided to take next week off in order to spend more time with my wife while she is off work. I tip my hat to all of you and want you to know that I don’t take anyone who reads my ramblings for granted. I really appreciate that you spend some of your time with me.

Now let’s get on to the whiskey. This is the second “Maltster” bottle that New Riff released through their Fall 2020 Whiskey Club slate. Like the last one, this is Bottled in Bond, non-chill filtered, and uses a malted flavoring grain. In this case malted wheat. Unlike the Malted Rye version, this does not use malted barley in the mash. Speaking of, the mash bill is 65% corn, 18% Bohemian floor-malted wheat, 10% unmalted wheat, and 7% dark wheat.

After the rye, I have high hopes for this one.

New Riff Maltster Bourbon with Malted Wheat

Purchase Info: $49.99 for a 750 mL bottle through the New Riff Whiskey Club website.

Price per Drink (50 mL): $3.33

Details: 5 years old. 50% ABV. Mash bill: 65% corn, 18% Bohemian floor-malted wheat, 10% unmalted wheat, and 7% dark wheat.

Nose: Vanilla, dried grains, and spearmint.

Mouth: Dusty dried grains, cocoa, caramel, mint, and vanilla.

Finish: Warm and long. Caramel, baking spices, and a touch of mint.

Thoughts: Another home run. These Maltster bourbons are really tasty. This one is more chocolaty than the malted rye version. I'm really glad I got my hands on these bottles. If you want a chance at bottles like these sign up for the New Riff Whiskey Club. You aren’t guaranteed availability, one of the three was sold out between the time I added it to my cart and when I checked out. But it is a fun way to get a shot at some unusual whiskeys.

See you in 2021!

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New Riff Maltster Bourbon with Malted Rye

Sometime in early 2019, I decided to join the New Riff Whiskey Club. I’m thinking it was right around the time I visited the distillery for the first time on a Spring trip to Kentucky. The New Riff Whiskey Club is a way for bourbon fans to get early access to the special bottles that the distillery puts out. These tend to be interesting “riffs” on traditional bourbon that are only made in limited quantities. They use unique grains or processes that let them play around a little bit and satisfy their curiosity.

Best of all, unlike the record clubs of old, there is no obligation to buy anything. Of course, you also don’t get 12 bottles of whiskey for a penny, either.

The Fall 2020 slate consisted of two bourbons—the Maltsters—created using malted flavoring grains, malted wheat, and, In tonight’s case, malted rye. They also re-released a rye whiskey, Balboa Rye, that uses local heirloom rye grains. I was able to get my hands on the two Maltsters. The Balboa was already sold out by the time my order was placed.

I was a little nervous about this one. I’ve had plenty of craft distilled rye whiskeys that use malted rye as part of their mash bill. And to be honest, the malted rye is usually my least favorite part of the flavor profile. Many of those ryes get used as cocktail ingredients to help disguise that malted rye flavor. I’ve also had one bourbon that used malted rye. I liked that one quite a bit, but the malted rye flavor really made its presence known and I needed to be in the mood for it.

But enough stalling, let’s see how New Riff handles Malted Rye in their bourbon.

New Riff Maltster Bourbon with Malted Rye

Purchase Info: $49.99 for a 750 mL bottle through the New Riff Whiskey Club website.

Price per Drink (50 mL): $3.33

Details: 5 years old. 50% ABV. Mash bill: 65% Corn. 30% Malted Rye, 5% Malted Barley

Nose: Cherry, leather, a touch of mint, and vanilla.

Mouth: Cherry, bubble gum, cinnamon, mint, and a touch of oak.

Finish: Warm and on the longer side of medium. Lingering cinnamon, mint, cherry cough syrup.

Thoughts: This is a beautiful whiskey. As I said, I'm not usually a fan of whiskies that contain malted rye, but this is wonderful. The "malted rye flavor" that I've found in the other whiskeys I’ve had that use malted rye is either not present or is so well integrated that the flavor isn’t noticeable. Of course, maybe the folks at New Riff just handle it differently than the other distillers I've tried. Being brewers before they were distillers, they tend to take a different look at ingredients and processes.

I much prefer this neat rather than with water. I thought water brought out too much nuttiness. At 100 proof though, neat is just fine. I'm really glad I got my hands on a bottle.

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Old Wm. Tarr Manchester Reserve

I’d like to thank the folks at William Tarr Distillery for providing this review sample with no strings attached.

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Oh my goodness. Christmas is right around the corner. That means that there are only about two weeks left out of the 17.93 years that have been 2020. Now I know that the world will not suddenly get better at the stroke of midnight on January 1st, but it is nice to have an agreed-upon date that we can all point to as a possible turning point.

Like the rest of the country, my wife and I have basically been a pair of shut-ins for the last I don’t even know how many months. So we’ve spent most of December ordering food and drink to be delivered to the house. We ordered things like pizza and bagels from New York City, hot chicken from Nashville, and of course food from local restaurants as well. We’ve also been accepting a lot more review samples since we are unable to go on our usual cross-country booze shopping trips.

This brings us to tonight’s whiskey: Old William Tarr Manchester Reserve. I got a press release for this one back in October. It sounded interesting. A whiskey created by history buffs who happen to be whiskey fans. They sound like my kind of people.

According to their website, Old William Tarr Manchester Reserve is a blend of 8-year-old rye (37% corn, 51% rye, and 12% malted barley) and 7-year-old bourbon (75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% malted barley). The bottle is age stated at 7 years and the whiskey is bottled at 114° proof. Let’s see how it tastes.

Old Wm. Tarr Manchester Reserve

Purchase info: This sample was graciously provided by the distillery for review purposes. I see that Liquor Barn in Louisville is selling this for $79.99 and that the Party Source (across the Ohio River from Cincinnati) has it for $76.99 per 750 mL bottle.

Price per Drink (50mL): $5.33 (Liquor Barn)

Details: 57% ABV. Aged 7 years. Blended whiskey: blend of 7-year-old bourbon and 8-year-old rye (per website).

Nose: Red fruits, rose petals, cinnamon, and honey.

Mouth: Red fruits, cinnamon, and caramel.

Finish: Warm and on the longer side of medium length. The rye really comes through on the finish with notes of cedar, cinnamon, and honey.

Thoughts: I'll be honest, I had no idea what to expect from this one. But I really like it. The rye notes really come through on the finish. I wish I lived close enough to where this was sold to snag a bottle for myself. Maybe in 2021, I mean it doesn’t take that long to drive to Louisville and back. Does it?

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Jim Beam Single Barrel - 108 proof

September 9th, 2020 was the last day that I saw any of my family in person. In this case, it was my mother-in-law and brother-in-law who needed tech support getting a wi-fi signal into a steel garage sitting a couple of hundred feet from her house. The combination of a large house, a steel garage, and the distance between them made for a tricky issue. You couldn’t get even a weak signal inside the building.

I like problems like this. I know enough to do the research on how to solve the problem and it allows me to learn something new. Thankfully, I knew that if I could get a signal into the building, a wi-fi repeater would allow the computer that they used in there to get a connection. And with a little time and experimentation with the position of the router and repeater, I got everything to work.

It was a fun project. I’d originally set up the network quite a few years ago when there was no need to get a connection to the outbuildings (and when the tech would have necessitated a physical connection to get there anyway). But as time passed, needs (and tech) changed. And so I got to do something new and interesting with it.

On the way home, I stopped into one of the liquor stores I traveled past in order to see what I could get in the state of Wisconsin that I couldn’t get in my home state of Minnesota. And while I was picking up my bottle of Four Roses Small Batch Select, I also noticed a bottle of Jim Beam Single Barrel that was 108 proof.

Now as you are probably aware, I usually know a fair bit of what goes on in the bourbon world just because the companies reach out and tell me. But somehow I’d missed that in late 2019, Jim Beam Single Barrel was refreshed. The old white-labeled 95 proof version was retired in favor of a new 108 proof version. Much like with my mother-in-law’s home network, tastes changed since the original was created. The bourbon public wants higher proof, non-chill filtered options. And it seems that Beam was happy to cater to those changing tastes.

Jim Beam Single Barrel - 108 proof

Purchase Info: $38.99 for a 750 mL bottle at Marketplace Foods, Menomonie, WI

Price per Drink (50 mL): $2.60

Details: 54% ABV. Barrel#: JB 000207013

Nose: Mint, ginger, caramel, light citrus, and peanut.

Mouth: Caramel, mint, cinnamon.

Finish: Medium length and warmth. Lingering notes of cinnamon, peanut, and oak.

Thoughts: This bottle is deceptively drinkable at 108° proof. I like it neat with no ice. Overall, I’d say that it is a very nice upgrade/refresh from the old 95° version. And I like that the price stayed about the same even more.

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Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Special Release 2020: Barrel Proof Rye

I’d like to thank the folks at Jack Daniel’s for providing this review sample with no strings attached.

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We are going to do something a little bit different tonight. Usually, my wife and I do our tasting notes on Sunday afternoon. It’s a nice relaxing weekend activity that allows us to have plenty of time to think about our notes before publishing. Then when I’m writing we enjoy a little of that night’s topic just to verify that we hadn’t gone completely crazy on Sunday. Well, tonight I called a last-minute audible. These notes are from tonight and I had never tasted this product before 1 pm this afternoon.

You might be asking why I was drinking at 1 pm on a Thursday afternoon. And that would be an understandable question. Well, today I had the opportunity to have my very first Zoom call. And it happened to be with the new Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller Chris Fletcher.

Which is where the booze came in.

See this was a call with other writers to introduce the 2020 Jack Daniel’s Special Release. Being an opinion writer and not a reporter, I didn’t have many questions. But luckily for you, the other writers did. Here is what I learned about this particular release.

• The whiskey in this release was distilled in January 2015, so it is in the 5-6 year range. That is typical for Jack Daniel’s single barrel releases.

• The mashbill is 70% Rye, 12% Malted Barley and 18% Corn which is the same as their other rye releases.

• Jack Daniel’s rye distillate is run through 3 feet of charcoal before barreling instead of the 10 feet that their “bourbon mashbill” is run through.

• Their Master Distiller used the words “Bourbon Mashbill” to describe their non-rye whiskey.

• The majority of Jack Daniel’s Single Barrels come from the top floors of about 30-40 of their warehouses that had been previously identified as producing good single barrels. This release came from those same areas.

• There were 200 barrels in this release and they got about 130-150 bottles per barrel.

• The sample release of 130.8° proof is about average for their whiskey barrels after 5-6 years.

• This release was non-chill filtered, only being run through a single cellulose pad to keep the barrel chunks out of the bottles.

• This began to roll out nationwide at the end of November and the suggested retail price is $64.99.

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Special Release 2020: Barrel Proof Rye

Purchase info: This sample was graciously provided by Jack Daniel’s for review purposes. Suggested retail price is $64.99 for a 750 mL bottle.

Price per Drink (50mL): $4.33

Details: 5-6 years old (unofficially as isn’t on the label). 65.4% ABV.

Nose: Cinnamon red hots, brown sugar, maple, vanilla, and chocolate.

Mouth: Spearmint, spicy cinnamon, dusty oak, barrel char, maple, vanilla, and dark chocolate.

Finish: Long and warm with lingering mint, cinnamon, and barrel stave.

Thoughts: I will be specifically looking for this on every trip to the liquor store for the next while. It’s a delicious rye whiskey. I'm a fan of the single barrel rye that is on shelves year-round, but it really sings at barrel proof. I really like this one.

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