Review: Dough Ball Cookie Dough Whiskey
Dough Ball Cookie Dough Whiskey was launched by a family owned beverage company August 2021. It was inspired by their favorite things cookies, whiskey, and a chubby Bulldog, named Doughball. While I prefer my chocolate chip cookies warm out of the oven, edible cookie dough has become an actual food category. It has been several years since some of the biggest names in flavored whiskey including Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, and Crown Royal have released a new flavored whiskey, smaller and independent brands continue to develop new flavors. There are several flavored whiskey’s I will never sample including Pickled Herring Whisky, Snake Whisky, and Reindeer Horn Whiskey. Yes those are real whiskey flavors. Cookie Dough flavored whiskey I’ll try. Read more 
Review: Revel Stoke S’Moregasm Whisky
Revel Stoke S’Moregasm is one of 12 flavored Canadian Whisky’s currently produced by Philips Distillers. All are made with a triple distilled Canadian Whisky base made from a blend of rye, corn, and barley at a distillery in Alberta Canada. The whisky is aged for 3 years in charred white oak barrels. The barrels are shipped to Princeton Minnesota where natural flavors are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Revel Stoke rebranded their product line last fall to shift the focus from flavor to bold energy. Each flavor is identified by a personality driven name. Revel Stoke Peach became Son of a Peach. Peanut Butter became Nutcrusher, Cinnamon became Hot Box. Revel Stoke S’Moregasm was released July 2022 along with Revel Stoke Big Richard Dill Pickle flavored whisky. it is crafted to bring back memories of roasting marshmallows on an open fire and sandwiching the finished product with milk chocolate and a graham cracker. Read more
Review: Ole Smoky Pumpkin Spice Cream Whiskey
Ole Smoky Pumpkin Spice Cream Whiskey is now available as a Limited Time seasonal release. This is another sign we have entered fall. Living in the Midwest the temperature has dropped and leaves have fallen. The football season has begun and the baseball season is nearing completion. Halloween Trick or Treat candy displays arrived a month ago, and Costco has transitioned from Key Lime Pie to Pumpkin Pie. There is no food product that signifies fall more than pumpkin. Turkey has a day. Pumpkin has a season. But lets be honest while Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Muffins and some Pumpkin Beers are made with real pumpkin, pumpkin spice is the real flavor of fall. It’s Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte, Pumpkin Spice Cheerios, Pumpkin Spice Twinkies, Pumpkin Spice Oreo’s, and believe it or not Pumpkin Spice Spam. Some even feed their best friends Pumpkin Spice Milk Bone Dog Biscuits. None of these products have any real pumpkin. Fall is also Prime Time for cream liqueurs as more cream liqueur will be consumed in the next few months than the rest of the year. Ole Smoky Pumpkin Spice Cream Whiskey, is both pumpkin spice flavored and a cream liqueur. Ole Smoky is best known for its Moonshine, they currently produce 32 different varieties. They also craft 17 different flavors of whiskey. Ole Smoky Pumpkin Spice Cream Whiskey is made from a 100% corn whiskey base that is barrel aged for 2 years. Milk, cream, soy, natural and artificial flavors are blended before bottling at 35 proof. Read more
Review: Ambros Banana Whiskey
Ambros Banana Whiskey was released October 2018. It is made from a 3 year old Irish Whiskey base and infused with only 100% real banana’s in Henderson Nevada. To be specific no artificial flavors, “natural” flavors, fruit juice concentrate, or added sugar are added. 50,000 hand peeled bananas are needed for each batch of Ambros. Banana’s are the most consumed fruit on the planet yet they have yet to make much of an impact in the world of adult beverages. I have reviewed 4 banana flavored vodka’s and all four are no longer produced. The only banana flavored vodka currently produced is Burnetts Strawberry Banana. With dozens of flavor varieties the only banana flavored hard seltzer I’m aware of is the just released Happy Dad Banana Hard Seltzer, available as a limited release. Banana seems to be limited to flavored rum and whiskey. We have previously reviewed Howler Head, Skatter Brain, and Whiskey Smith banana flavored whiskey. Ambros is the only banana spirit I’m aware of infused with real banana, so we are anxious to taste the results. Read more
Review: Copper Still Peanut Butter Flavored Whisky
Copper Still Peanut Butter Flavored Whisky is crafted in Lake Havasu City Arizona by Owner and Head Distiller Andy Andersen and Copper Still Distillery. It is made from their corn and cane whisky base. The distillery was established 2018 and they currently produce several flavored whisky’s including Pecan, Root Beer, Chocolate, Cherry, Peach, and Lemonade all from their Hava Shine corn and cane whisky base. The distillery also crafts a potato vodka and two flavored vodkas, jalapeno, and cucumber. Read more
Review: Skatter Brain Vanilla Cake Whiskey
Skatter Brain Vanilla Cake Whiskey was just released. It is one of six Skatter Brain flavored whiskeys available at Total Wine & More stores throughout the US. The others include Dark Chocolate Banana, Dark Cherry Vanilla, Peanut Butter, PB&J, and Peanut Butter Cream Liqueur. With Peanut Butter Whiskey practically mainstream its about time someone pushed the outer limits of flavored whiskey. If you think Vanilla Cake Whiskey sounds crazy I’ve heard what flavors of Skatter Brain are coming next. All I can say is wow. Skatter Brain Vanilla Cake is made from a Canadian Whiskey base with natural flavors and caramel color. Read more
Review: Warrior Peanut Butter Cup Whiskey
Warrior Peanut Butter Cup Whiskey was launched May 2020 by former vet Rich Clemson and his wife Mary. They sold their business, Pasta USA, in 2006 and instead of retiring they looked for their next challenge. Their previous business gave them several grain based connections so the decided to start crafting spirits. By December 2017 they were producing vodka and gin at their Liquid Brands Distillery, built in a 7500 square foot renovated warehouse in East Spokane Washington. They currently produce 22 spirits including several whiskey’s, vodka’s, and gins. The whiskey base is made from locally sourced corn grown in Palouse Hills Washington. Once distilled in their custom build still the whiskey rests in new American white oak barrels. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Foggy Mountain Peanut Butter Whiskey
Foggy Mountain Peanut Butter Whiskey was launched August 2020. It is one of five flavored whiskeys produced by the Foggy Mountain Spirit Company in Boyne Falls Michigan. The others include Salted Caramel, Bonfire Cinnamon, Peach, and Coffee. They also produce Latitude 45 Vodka, Gin, and Rum. Foggy Mountain Peanut Butter is made with natural peanut extract. Read more
Review: Jameson Orange
Jameson Orange Irish Whiskey was just released in the US. It was first released in the UK August 2021. Jameson Lime & Ginger was recently launched in Russia. Seems like a curious place to kick off a new spirit from one of the worlds largest whiskey producers. It is made with Jameson Irish Whiskey and natural orange flavor. Jameson Original Irish Whiskey is made from 3 ingredients, barley, both malted and unmalted grown within 100 miles of the distillery, non GMO maize grown in the South of France, and water sourced from the Dungourney River. Jameson is a blend of pot still and fine grain whiskey. Both are triple distilled and aged for a minimum of four years in both used bourbon barrels and Spanish sherry casks. Read more
Review: Ballotin Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream
Ballotin Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream was released April 2021. It is one of eight chocolate flavored whiskies flying the Ballotin banner. The others include Bourbon Ball, Caramel Turtle, Chocolate Cherry Cream, Chocolate Mint, Chocolate Mocha Cream, and Original Chocolate. Paul Tuell a former brand manager for Brown-Forman founded Saloon Spirits April 2015 in Louisville Kentucky. Each bottle of Ballotin starts with a sourced whiskey made from a traditional Bourbon mash with at least 51% corn. Wheat and barley make up the balance. The whiskey is aged for three years in previously used oak barrels. Chocolate peanut butter cream liqueur made from real dairy cream is blended before bottling at 34 proof. Read more