Chattanooga Whiskey Adds Another Whiskey

Chattanooga Whiskey Adds Another Whiskey

Chattanooga Whiskey, since its founding in 2011 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has worked hard to develop a diverse whiskey line up and strong brand. Initially they challenged local ordinances and eventually won the right to distill whiskey in their namesake city for the...
Barrell Bourbon Batch 23 Review

Barrell Bourbon Batch 23 Review

As the American whiskey industry has continued its relentless evolution, there’s been an interesting shift in the direction of that most valuable commodity: hype. Once upon a time, it was the distilleries that elicited the most fervent responses from whiskey geeks....
George Dickel (No. 12) Tennessee Whisky

George Dickel (No. 12) Tennessee Whisky

The George Dickel brand is best known as the “other” Tennessee Whiskey. Without going into the whole thing here, I’ll summarize by saying Tennessee Whiskey is straight bourbon whiskey (but don’t call it bourbon) that has been filtered through some quantity of...
Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots

Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots

The bourbon roots of Mountain Dew – now the country’s third-most popular soft drink – began because two Knoxville brothers needed a tasty mixer for their bourbon. That 1940s-styled Mountain Dew didn’t taste like today’s lemonade-citrus, caffeine- and sugar-charged...
Davidson Reserve Is A True Tennessee Whiskey

Davidson Reserve Is A True Tennessee Whiskey

Tennessee whiskey, as we’ve written about in the recent past, has its own special thing when it comes down to what makes it different from traditional bourbon, namely the charcoal filtering step known as the Lincoln County Process. It is something particularly...