Recent Rickhouse Articles

Does Barrel Placement Really Change Your Whiskey? Most guys crack open a bottle of good bourbon and think about the grain, maybe the char on the barrel, or how many years it spent aging. What almost nobody thinks about is where that barrel was sitting inside the warehouse while those years ticke

Does Your Bourbon's Warehouse Actually Matter? Picture this: two bottles of bourbon, same distillery, same mashbill, same recipe, aged the same number of years. You pour them side by side, take a sip of each, and — wait, what? They taste completely different. One is rich and dark with deep oak and