Thursday, March 20, 2014
Lists - We've Got Lists
If you haven't checked out my big lists lately, you might want to as I am constantly updating them.
The Complete List of American Whiskey Distilleries & Brands now lists 325 distilleries making whiskey in the US. That's up from 190 a year ago which shows pretty amazing growth. In addition, the list includes 115 independent bottlers (also known as non-distiller producers or NDPs).
Meanwhile, The Complete List of Whiskey Blogs lists 495 blogs as well as assorted other whiskey sites. I like to click randomly through it and read a few posts from who knows where.
As always, please let me know if I've left anything out! I get lots of great tips from readers, though please do check the list thoroughly first. You won't believe how many emails I get asking me to include companies on the distilleries/brands list that are already there (usually in the bottlers section) or that only make vodka.
Check 'em out!
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Assuming that distilleries and NPD crowd thins-out substantially if counting only those with regular-release products matured to 10yrs or more.
Well, yeah, but even some of the macro-distilleries don't have a regular release product aged ten or more year. Maker's doesn't. Brown Forman doesn't, unless you count the Old Forester Birthday Bourbon as a regular release. Barton certainly doesn't.
So, razor thin.
Thinner than a razor. Of the crafts, Anchor, Charbay and maybe St. George have released whiskey over ten years old. I think that may be it.
Some of the NDPs certainly release old stuff: Van Winkle, KDB, Hirsch, Diageo, Jefferson's, but most of the NDPs listed are bulk buyers that release NAS or younger stuff.
Two more for Missouri:
1. Dogmaster Distillers. See: http://www.dogmasterdistillery.com/
2. Wood Hat Spirits. See: http://www.woodhatspirits.com/
Not just a whiskey blog, but sort of:
http://www.stogieguys.com/cigaregories/spirits
Edgefield Distillery has a 10yo rye on a yearly release. A whopping 50 gallons of it each year! They fly under radar because they don't distribute nationally, but they belong in the same class with Anchor and St George, craft distillers before the concept existed.
Thanks Florin, I forget about Edgefield because there stuff never makes it out of Oregon.
Blackwater Distilling in Stevensville, MD, took delivery of the barrels for their first batch of Maryland style rye whiskey yesterday. (They've been selling Sloop Betty vodka for a few years now.) http://blackwaterdistilling.com/
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