The 50 best american whiskeys and bourbons you can buy right now

insidehook | kirk miller | june 27, 2023

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Whiskey is not an American invention, but the best domestic iterations certainly have their own fanciful backstories and flavor profiles (we can claim bourbon and Tennessee whiskey as our own). Without spending too much time on a history lesson — … — we simply wanted to profile 50 of the best American whiskeys and bourbons we appreciate.

Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The Fort Collins, Colorado-based Old Elk is under the guidance of Greg Metze, a 40-plus-year vet of the whiskey world. The distillery utilizes a slower (and proprietary) Slow Cut method to craft its high-malt bourbon.

Drink: That said, it’s the wheated releases by Old Elk that’ll really turn your head; the Wheated Bourbon features the notes of vanilla, caramel and oak you’d expect in a bourbon, with hints of toffee, leather and amaretto. 

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