Blade and Bow
For our third installment, we’re reviewing Blade and Bow, because honestly, is there a more manly sounding name for a bourbon than Blade and Bow? Maybe Slit the Throats of Your Enemies and Drink Their Blood from Their Dried Skulls Bourbon or Crush Your Enemies, See Them Driven Before You, and Hear the Lamentations of Their Women Bourbon, but that’s about it. And I don’t even think those are real bourbons. But if they are, we’re gonna review them. And soon. In any event, Blade and Bow is produced by the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. The distillery was opened on Derby Day in 1935 by the legendary Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle, and continued to produce bourbon, though under different names, until 1992. The distillery reopened in 2014 with Blade and Bow as its product. The name comes not from weaponry, but from the two parts of a skeleton key: the blade and the bow. Now, that’s not quite as manly and cool as a sword and a hunting bow, but still pretty cool. Even cooler is that the name was picked to honor the history of the distillery, which is legendary in the bourbon world. In the original distillery, five keys hung on the door, each representing a different step in the creation process: grains, yeast, fermentation, distilling, and aging. [Read more…] about The Regular Guy Bourbon Review: Blade and Bow