Rye is our personal favorite whiskey around. Check out our list of best Rye whiskey’s under $50 and read our tasting notes and reviews of a few of our favorites like Clyde May’s, WhistlePig, and Sagamore. Follow along on our journey to find the best Rye and American whiskeys around.
Over the last couple years, we’ve seen a resurgence of rye whiskey. Here at Barrel & Brew, we drink everything, of course, but believe there is no beating a good rye whiskey. So, we’ve decided to try out one of the highest rated rye whiskeys out there. Sagamore Spirit Double Oak Rye received 96 points…
While we here at Barrel & Brew aren’t necessarily the biggest fans of flavored spirits, we do appreciate some of them. One of those being Slow & Low Rock and Rye. It’s been one of our favorite “old-fashioned’s in a bottle”. Recently, Slow & Low released a Coffee Old-Fashioned, so naturally we had to buy…
I was browsing through the whiskey section at our local liquor store, as I often due, and came across a whiskey I couldn’t ignore. A 95 proof, Colorado straight rye whiskey. So, I did what I usually do. I threw it in my cart with 8 other bottles that caught my eye. We’re going to…
Bourbon and whiskey isn’t all about Kentucky. Recently, I’ve been trying to review as many bourbons as possible from various states and regions. So, I figured I’d take a look at the first distilled whiskey in the state of New York post prohibition – Hudson Whiskey. Whether you’ve had Hudson Whiskey or not, if you’re…
Rye used to be a prominent grain used in American whiskeys. For hundreds of years, rye matched or outpaced corn as the predominant grain used in the production of whiskey. That’s even with bourbon requiring at least 51% corn in its mash bill. However, rye was unable to recover from the effects of prohibition. Corn…
American whiskey, bourbon especially, is heavily associated with Kentucky. However, whiskeys such as TX Whiskey and Balcones are starting to put Texas on the map as a premier state for distilling. Balcones Distilling comes to us out of Waco, TX and makes a handful of whiskeys, including bourbon. In this guide, we’re going to look…
Tincup, Colorado was small mining town in central Colorado, located on the west side of the Rocky Mountains. Much like TX Whiskey does to the Texan lifestyle (which you can read about HERE), Tincup Whiskey does a lot of marketing to the Colorado mountain-man lifestyle. As a native Texan and a current Colorado resident, I…