Author: thedailywhisky
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Stranahan’s Bottled in Bond: an 1897 standard meets an 11-year American single malt
Stranahan’s Bottled in Bond is the Denver distillery’s first release made to the 1897 Bottled-in-Bond standard, and it is billed as the oldest Colorado Bottled-in-Bond whiskey ever released. It is an 11-year-old American single malt, distilled from 100% malted barley in a single 2015 season, matured in new American white oak in a federally bonded Denver…
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Kastbergs put cask-strength Stauning Rye into an ice cream, and it is exclusive to Denmark
A Danish ice cream maker has taken Stauning’s Rye whisky, not the bottled version but the raw spirit lifted straight from a single cask at 62%, and churned it into a scoop. Kastbergs Cask Whisky ice cream is the result of a collaboration between ice cream maker Joachim Kastberg and Stauning Whisky, and for now…
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Decadent Drinks’ Magnificent Seven: from a 31-year-old Tomatin to a Roger Groult Calvados
Decadent Drinks has dropped seven new bottles in one batch, and the spread is deliberately all over the map. It runs from a 31-year-old Tomatin matured in a plain refill hogshead to a 120-bottle Calvados built with the Roger Groult estate in Normandy, with waxy Clynelish, coastal young Glenglassaugh, richly sherried Glen Grant, an undisclosed…
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Ian Macleod launches Private Clients: direct access to Rosebank, Tamdhu, Glengoyne and Laggan Bay casks
The final Rosebank casks filled before the distillery fell silent in 1993, and Tamdhu sherry casks reaching back to the 1960s, are now available to buy directly from the company that owns them. Ian Macleod Distillers has launched Private Clients, a dedicated division giving collectors and investors direct access to single casks and rare bottlings…
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Old Forester Triple Char: the first 117 Series bottling made entirely from Main Street whiskey
Old Forester’s urban distillery on Louisville’s Whiskey Row has been running since 2018. Today it finally gets a bottle that is entirely its own. Old Forester Triple Char is the newest release in the 117 Series and the first Old Forester expression made exclusively from whiskey distilled at the Main Street distillery rather than the…
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Stillness Irish Whiskey: M&S’s first own-label Irish whiskey is blended by Boann Distillery
Boann Distillery has spent six years rebuilding single pot still Irish whiskey from historic mash bills with oats, wheat and rye. Its newest bottle carries none of that on the label. It says M&S. Stillness Irish Whiskey is a triple cask blended Irish whiskey made by Boann exclusively for Marks & Spencer, and it is…
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Port of Leith Old Fashioned can: sugar and bitters swapped for Pedro Ximénez sherry
The Port of Leith Old Fashioned can is a ready-to-serve cocktail from Leith Bond, the blending and bottling arm of Edinburgh’s Port of Leith Distillery. Officially called the Velvet Old Fashioned, it combines the house Table Whisky single grain Scotch with Pedro Ximénez sherry and a small amount of saline, replacing the sugar syrup and bitters of a classic Old Fashioned. It is presented at…
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Barrell Decade 2: the same barrels as last year’s Decade, pulled a second time at 141.3 proof
Barrell Craft Spirits has released Barrell Decade 2, a 20-year-old Canadian whisky bottled at 141.3 proof (70.65% ABV) and finished in Spanish brandy and Hungarian oak casks. It is a blend of whiskies distilled in every single year from 1995 to 2005, with liquid in the blend running from 20 to 30 years old, and…
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The English 17 Year Old Heavily Smoked Rum Cask: heavy peat meets rum in a £295 single cask
The English 17 Year Old Heavily Smoked Rum Cask is the distillery’s heaviest peat, dropped into a rum cask and left there for 17 years. There are 177 bottles, bottled at 56.4% ABV and priced at £295 each, and it is the first release in the Founders’ Private Cellar range built on heavily smoked spirit.…
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Koopers Barrel Reserve Bourbon: the Texas blending house finally lets its tasting room bottle leave the building
Koopers Barrel Reserve Bourbon is a wheated, barrel-proof bourbon from Koopers Whiskey, a family-owned blending house in Ledbetter, Texas. On 21 July 2026 the brand made it available online for the first time, with direct shipping to eligible US states, after two years as a tasting room exclusive. It blends a six-year-old wheated bourbon with…
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