Thirty One Whiskey

✈️ Can you make a decent old fashioned in a hotel room with zero bar tools? We tested four TSA-friendly cocktail kits to find out.

We bought every travel old fashioned mix we could find on Amazon — powders, tea bags, infusion kits — and ranked them from worst to best.

Ratings ranged from 2/5 to a perfect 5/5 — and the best option is the one you’d never think to search for.

Full breakdown and rankings at ThirtyOneWhiskey.com 🔗

🌾 From seed to sip — Heaven Hill wants you to know exactly what’s in your glass.
New review up: Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey — the first edition of a new series where they put everything on the label. The corn seed varietal. The distillation year. The rickhouse floors where it aged. It’s a level of transparency you almost never see from a distillery this size.
Here’s what matters:
🥃 This is NOT your usual Heaven Hill bourbon. The mash bill runs 35% rye — compare that to the 10% rye in Elijah Craig and Evan Williams. It’s a completely different animal. 🧊 Excellent on ice — caramel, black walnut, a hint of chocolate. This is the move. 🍸 Makes a rock-solid old fashioned you’ll want on repeat 💰 But at $110... let’s talk about that price tag
We gave it a 4/5 — it’s genuinely well-made and delivers across the board. But we’ll be honest: if you just want a great bourbon and don’t care about the backstory, you can save $70 and grab an Elijah Craig from the same distillery.
Full review (and the wild story about the fire that destroyed 90,000 barrels and lit a creek ablaze for two miles) at ThirtyOneWhiskey.com 🔗

🥃 A bourbon that gets better the less it tries.
We just dropped our review of Journeyman Distillery Featherbone Bourbon — a craft bourbon out of tiny Three Oaks, Michigan, distilled in a building that used to manufacture stays for women’s corsets. (Yes, really.)
Here’s the highlight reel:
🍫 The nose smells like a Reese’s cup — and we mean that as a compliment 🧊 On the rocks is where this bourbon finds its groove 🍸 Makes a solid old fashioned, but go easy on the sugar ☠️ The mule was so bad it got poured down the drain
At $50, we wanted a little more personality for the price. It landed at a 3/5 — solidly middle-of-the-road, but a genuinely good rocks pour for a summer evening by the fire.
The good news? We left the Journeyman gift shop with a lot more bottles, and those reviews are coming soon.
Full review at ThirtyOneWhiskey.com 🔗