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List of whisky brands

A selection of Bourbons and Tennessee whiskeys offered at a liquor store in Decatur, Georgia

This is a list of whisky brands arranged by country of origin and style. Whisky (or whiskey)[1] is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and corn. Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, made generally of charred white oak.

American whiskey

Main article: American whiskey

Thirteen large distilleries owned by eight companies produce over 99% of the whiskey made in the U.S.[2]

Of the thirteen, ten are in Kentucky, two are in Tennessee, and one is in Indiana. The three states are grouped together in the east-central mainland region of the United States.

Bourbon

Main article: Bourbon whiskey

Kentucky bourbon

The production line at the Maker's Mark distillery

Brands are listed alphabetically by brand ownership and the name and location of the distillery. The brand owner is included if different.

A bottle of Heaven Hill "Black" Bourbon
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve bourbon whiskey
  • Pappy Van Winkle (an Old Rip Van Winkle / Sazerac joint venture[4] brand, wheated)
  • Rock Hill Farms Single-Barrel (single barrel)
  • W. L. Weller (wheated)

Tennessee whiskey

Main article: Tennessee whiskey

Other bourbon

Corn whiskey

Main article: Corn whiskey

Rye whiskey

A bottle of American Old Overholt rye whiskey
Main article: Rye whiskey
  • Beam Suntory brands:
    • Alberta Rye Whiskey Dark Batch[8]
    • Jim Beam Rye
    • Knob Creek Rye
    • Old Overholt
    • (ri)1
  • Heaven Hill brands:
    • Pikesville Supreme
    • Rittenhouse Straight Rye
    • Trybox Series, New Make Rye
  • High West Distillery brands:
  • Kentucky Bourbon Distillers (KBD) brands (and brands exclusively bottled by KBD):
    • Black Maple Hill Rye
  • Black Button Empire Rye
    • Classic Cask Kentucky Rye
    • Michter's Rye Whiskey
    • Red Hook
    • Willett Family Reserve (single barrel)
  • Sazerac brands (and brands produced exclusively by Sazerac):
  • Wild Turkey Distillery (also called Austin, Nichols Distillery):
    • Russell's Reserve Rye
    • Wild Turkey Rye
  • Other brands
  • Independent
    • Thistle Finch Distillery Straight Rye Whiskey – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    • Copper Fox Rye
    • Dad's Hat Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey – Bristol, Pennsylvania
    • Elias Staley Rye Whiskey, New Carlisle, Ohio
    • George Washington's Rye Whiskey, Mount Vernon, Virginia[9]
    • Gunpowder Rye Whiskey – New England Distilling, Portland, Maine
    • Hirsch Vintage – unknown distillery
    • Hudson Manhattan Rye Whiskey – Tuthilltown Spirits, Gardiner, New York
    • James E Pepper 1776 Straight Rye
    • Kinsey Rye Whiskey – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Leopold Bro's Maryland-style Rye -Denver, Colorado
    • Old Potrero (Anchor Distillery)
    • OYO Rye Whiskey, Middle West Spirits, Columbus, Ohio
    • Town Branch Rye – Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company, Lexington, Kentucky
    • Ranger Creek .44 Rye - Ranger Creek Distilling, San Antonio, Texas
    • RoughStock 100% Rye (RoughStock Distillery), Bozeman, Montana
    • Roundstone Rye – Catoctin Creek
    • Sagamore Spirit Rye American Whiskey – Baltimore, Maryland
    • Whistlepig Straight 100% Rye, Vermont
    • James Oliver Straight 100% Rye – Indio Spirits Distillery – Portland, Oregon
    • Ghost Owl Rye – Pacific Northwest Whiskey, Indio Spirits Distillery – Portland, Oregon
    • Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey – Stoll & Wolfe Distillery – Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
    • Wigle Whiskey Pennsylvania Rye, Deep Cut Rye, and Straight Rye – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Montana 1889 Rye Whiskey - Bozeman Spirits Distillery, Montana

Malt whiskey

Wheat whiskey

  • Breuckelen Distilling77 Whiskey, Brooklyn, New York
  • Bernheim Original – Heaven Hill Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey, Cedar Ridge Distillery, Swisher, Iowa
  • Dry Fly wheat whiskey, Dry Fly Distilling, Spokane, Washington
  • OYO Wheat Whiskey, Middle West Spirits, Columbus, Ohio
  • RoughStock Spring Wheat Whiskey (RoughStock Distillery), Bozeman, Montana
  • TOPO Organic Distillery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Montana 1889 Wheat Bourbon Whiskey - Bozeman Spirits Distillery, Montana

Blended whiskey

Australian whisky

Main article: Australian whisky

Australia produces a number of single malt whiskies. Tasmanian whiskies in particular were the first to receive global attention. Australian whiskies are winning an increasing number of global whisky awards and medals, including for example in the World Whiskies Awards and Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 'Liquid Gold Awards'.[10][11] Mainland Australian whiskies are also obtaining global recognition, in particular a West Australian whisky.[12][13]

Australian whisky distilleries include:[14][15]

  • Archie Rose Distilling Co., Sydney
  • Bakery Hill Distillery, Victoria
  • Belgrove Distillery, Tasmania
  • Black Gate Distillery
  • Booie Range Distillery
  • Castle Glen Australia
  • Corio Whisky Distillery, (closed 1989)
  • Corowa Whisky Distillery
  • Cradle Mountain Whisky (Cradle Mountain Malt Whisky), Tasmania
  • Craft Works Distillery, Capertee NSW
  • Hellyers Road Distillery, Tasmania
  • Hoochery Distillery, (Raymond B Desert III Corn Whiskey), Kununurra, Western Australia
  • Lark Distillery, Tasmania
  • Limeburners Single Malt Whisky, Great Southern Distilling Company, Albany, Western Australia
  • Mackey's Distillery (still in maturation, no whisky released yet), Tasmania
  • Margaret River Distilling Co, (owned by Great Southern Distilling Company), Margaret River, Western Australia
  • Nant Distillery, Tasmania
  • New World Whisky Distillery (Starward Whisky)
  • Old Hobart Distillery, Tasmania
  • Redlands Distillery
  • Samuel Smith & Son (Smith's Angaston Whisky).
  • Small Concern Whisky Distillery (Cradle Mountain Whisky), Tasmania
  • Sullivans Cove Distillery, Tasmania
  • Tiger Snake Distillery (Tiger Snake Whiskey and Rye, Owned by Great Southern Distilling Company) Porongurup, Western Australia
  • Tin Shed Distilling Company, (Iniquity Whisky), Adelaide, South Australia
  • Tasmania Distillery (Sullivans Cove Single Malt Whisky), Tasmania
  • Timboon Railway Shed Distillery, Timboon, Victoria
  • Triptych Distillery
  • Wild Swan Distilling Company, (closed 2016)
  • Wild River Mountain Distillery Queensland
  • William McHenry & Sons Distillery, Tasmania

British whisky

English whisky

Main article: English Whisky
  • The English Whisky Co.
    • 3 year old
  • Lakes Distillery (Setmurthy, Lake District National Park)
    • 3 year old single malt

Scotch whisky

Dalwhinnie whisky
Main article: Scotch whisky

Single malt scotch

Main article: Single malt Scotch
Campbeltown single malts
Main article: Campbeltown single malts
Highland single malts
Island single malts
Main article: Island single malts
Islay single malts
Lowland single malts
Main article: Lowland single malts
Speyside single malts
Main article: Speyside single malt

Grain Scotch whisky

  • Cameron Bridge distillery
  • Girvan
  • Invergordon Grain Distillery
  • North British
  • Starlaw Distillery
  • Strathclyde

Blended Malt Scotch whisky

Main article: Blended malt whisky

A blend of two or more Single Malt Scotch Whiskies, with no Grain Whisky.[17]

Blended Scotch whisky

Independent bottlers of Scotch whisky

  • Adelphi
  • Arcanum Spirits
  • Blackadder
  • Compass Box Whisky
  • Douglas Laing & Co
  • Duncan Taylor
  • Gordon & MacPhail
  • Murray McDavid
  • The Scotch Malt Whisky Society
  • Vintage Malt Whisky Company

Welsh whisky

Main article: Welsh whisky
  • Penderyn

Canadian whisky

Main article: Canadian whisky
Bottles of Canadian Club Whisky for sale at a liquor store in Iizaka, Fukushima, Japan
  • Beam Suntory brands
  • Brown-Forman brands
  • Caldera Distilling, River John, Nova Scotia brands
    • Premium Whisky
    • Hurricane 5 Whisky
  • Diageo brands:
  • Forty Creek, Ontario (a part of Gruppo Campari)
  • Glenora Distillers, Glenville, Nova Scotia (independent)
  • Heaven Hill Black Velvet distillery, Lethbridge, Alberta
  • Hood River Distillers
    • Pendleton Whisky
  • Pemberton Distillery (independent)
  • Pernod Ricard brands via Corby Distilleries, produced at the Hiram Walker Distillery, Windsor, Ontario
    • Corby Royal Reserve
    • Hiram Walker Special Old
    • Lot 40
    • McGuinness Silk Tassel
    • Pike Creek 10 Year Old
    • Wiser's
  • Sazerac Company brands
    • Barton's Canadian
    • Canadian Host
    • Canadian Hunter
    • Canadian LTD
    • Canadian Supreme
    • Caribou Crossing
    • James Foxe
    • Legacy Canadian Whisky
    • Mr. Boston Five Star
    • Mount Royal Light Blended Canadian Whiskey
    • Northern Light
    • Rich & Rare
    • Royal Canadian Small Batch Canadian Whiskey
    • Seagram's 83 Canadian Whisky
  • William Grant & Sons, Windsor, Ontario
    • Gibson’s Finest Canadian Whisky

Finnish whisky

Main article: Finnish whisky
  • Panimoravintola Beer Hunter's
  • Teerenpeli
  • Kyrö Distillery Company

French whisky

Main article: French whisky
  • Armorik Single Malt – Warenghem Distilleries, Brittany
  • Bastille
  • Glann Ar More Distillery Brands (Brittany)
    • Glann Ar Mor Single Malt
    • Kornog Single Malt
  • P&M – Domaine Mavela, Corsica
  • Rozelieures Single Malt – Distillery Grallet-Dupic, Lorraine
  • Vicomte Single Malt
  • Vercors Distillery
  • Wambrechies Distillery (Northern France)

German whisky

Main article: German whisky
  • Schlitzer Destillerie
    • Glen Slitisa
    • Schlitzer Burgen
  • Bellerhof
    • Danne's Schwäbischer Whisky vom Bellerhof, formerly Bellerhof-Whisky
  • Blaue Maus Whisky-Destillerie
    • Blaue Maus Vintage 1993
    • Grüner Hund Vintage 1991
    • Krottentaler Vintage 1994
    • Schwarzer Pirat Vintage 1995
    • Spinnaker 1997
  • Coillmór
    • Coillmór Single Malt Whisky
  • Gruel
    • Gruel Single Grain Whisky
  • Höhler
    • Whessky, Bourbon Style
    • Whessky, Irish Style
    • Whessky, Rye Style
    • Whessky, Scottish Style Single Malt
  • Home of The Glen Els – Hammerschmiede 1250
    • The Alrik, 100% Woodsmoked
    • The Glen Els,
  • Rabel
    • Schwäbischer Whisky
    • Whisky von der Alb (Spelt Whisky)
  • Reiner Mösslein
    • Fränkischer Whiskey
  • Slyrs
    • Slyrs Bavarian Single Malt
  • Sonnenschein
  • Volker Theurer
    • Black Horse Original Ammertal Malt & Grain Whisky

Indian whisky

Main article: Indian whisky
  • Royal Green
  • After Dark
  • Antiquity
  • Bagpiper
  • Blenders Pride
  • Director's Special
  • DSP Black
  • Imperial Blue
  • McDowell's No.1[23]
  • Peter Scot
  • Red Knight
  • Rowson's Reserve
  • Royal Challenge
  • Rampur
  • Royal Stag
  • Signature
  • Officer's Choice

Indian single malts

  • Amrut
  • Paul John
  • Rampur

Irish whiskey

Three Irish whiskeys
Main article: Irish whiskey

Irish single malts

  • Brogan's Legacy Irish Single Malt
  • Bushmills Single Malt
  • Cadenhead's Peated Single Malt
  • Clonmel Single Malt
  • Clontarf
  • Connemara
  • Dingle Whiskey
  • Dunville's VR (historically a pot still, relaunched as a single malt)
  • A Drop of the Irish
  • Erin Go Bragh
  • Inish Beg Turk Single Malt
  • The Irishman Single Malt
  • Kinahan's Single Malt
  • Knappogue Castle
  • Locke's Single Malt
  • Merrys Single Malt
  • Michael Collins Single Malt
  • Powers
  • Preston Millennium Malt
  • Shanahans
  • Slaney Malt
  • Suir Peated Malt
  • Teeling Single Malt
  • Tipperary Boutique Selection
  • Tullamore D.E.W. Single Malt
  • Tyrconnell
  • Waterford
  • West Cork 10yr

Single pot still whiskeys

Midleton Very Rare with box
Main article: Single pot still whiskey

Blended Irish whiskeys

  • Avoca
  • Ballygeary
  • Brennans
  • Bushmills
  • Cassidy's
  • Clontarf 1014
  • Coleraine
  • Concannon
  • Crested Ten
  • Donegal
  • Dunville's Three Crowns (historically a pot still, relaunched as a blend)
  • Dunphys
  • Erin's Isle
  • Feckin Irish Whiskey
  • Finian's Five Provinces
  • Golden Irish
  • Grace
  • Hewitts
  • Inishowen
  • Jameson Irish Whiskey
  • John L. Sullivan Irish Whiskey
  • Kinahan's Small Batch Irish Whiskey
  • Kilbeggan
  • Locke's
  • Michael Collins Blend
  • Midleton Very Rare (now also available in a single pot still variant)
  • Millars
  • Murphy's
  • O'Briens
  • Old Dublin
  • Old Kilkenny
  • O'Neills
  • Paddy
  • Portmagee Whiskey
  • Powers Gold Label
  • Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
  • Slane Castle
  • Strangford Gold
  • Tullamore D.E.W.
  • West Cork
  • Writers Tears

Single grain Irish whiskeys

  • Greenore
  • Egan's Irish Whiskey
  • Flying Tumbler Irish Whiskey
  • Teeling Single Grain

Japanese whisky

A bottle of Japanese Yamazaki whisky
Main article: Japanese whisky
  • Akashi
  • Chita
  • From The Barrel
  • Fuji Gotemba
  • Hakushu
  • Hibiki
  • Kaku-bin
  • Miyagikyo
  • Nikka
  • Suntory
  • Taketsuru
  • Toki
  • Yamazaki
  • Yoichi

New Zealand whisky

  • 45 South[24]
  • Lammerlaw[24]
  • Milford[24]
  • The Oamaruvian[25]
  • Thomson Whiskey
  • Wilson's[24]
  • The Cardrona Distillery

South African whisky

  • Three Ships Whisky
  • Boplaas Whisky
  • Bain's Whisky

Spanish whisky

Other whiskies

A bottle of Mackmyra Den första utgåvan (first edition) and boxes

See also

References

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition: "In modern trade usage, Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey are thus distinguished in spelling; whisky is the usual spelling in Britain and whiskey that in the U.S."
  2. ^ Albala, Ken, ed. (2015). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781506317304.
  3. ^ "Takara Shuzo Group Companies". Takara Shuzo International Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Old Rip Van Winkle Archived 2011-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, Joint venture description on company web site. (Accessed January 2011)
  5. ^ Whisk(ey) Archived 2013-05-04 at the Wayback Machine brand list at Diageo web site
  6. ^ Crumbie, Trey (January 26, 2017). "'Super-premium' Kentucky Owl bourbon bought, to be available nationally". Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  7. ^ Patton, Janet (January 26, 2017). "New lakeside bourbon complex will cost $150 million. See what it will include". Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  8. ^ a b Olmsted, Larry (May 19, 2015). "A Bold New Rye Whisky From Canada's Rye Expert". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  9. ^ "George Washington's Mount Vernon Distillery & Gristmill". Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  10. ^ Colquhoun, Steve (21 March 2014). "Tassie whisky named world's best single malt". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  11. ^ "Tasmania Distillery's Sullivans Cove takes world whisky title for single malt". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  12. ^ Brammer, Jenna (6 April 2017). "WA Drop named 'Best International Whisky in the World'". West Australian Newspaper. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  13. ^ Adsti, Saskia (2 November 2017). "Peat the Secret to Winning Drop". West Australian Newspaper. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  14. ^ "Australian whisky distilleries". Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  15. ^ "Closed Australian whisky distilleries". Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  16. ^ "Craigellachie – Scotch malt whisky distillery profile". maltmadness.com.
  17. ^ 2009 No.2890 Food - The Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009
  18. ^ "Angels Nectar". angelsnectar.co.uk.
  19. ^ a b c d Jim Murray's Whisky Bible
  20. ^ a b c d e "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  21. ^ "Johnnie Walker Green Label | Scotch Whisky | Johnnie Walker". www.johnniewalker.com.
  22. ^ "Johnnie Walker Island Green". Master of Malt.
  23. ^ "Officer's Choice, McDowell's No1, Celebration, Honey Bee and Old Tavern top global liquor chart". timesofindia-economictimes.
  24. ^ a b c d "The History of New Zealand Whisky", New Zealand Whisky Company website. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  25. ^ "The Oamaruvian | The New Zealand Whisky Collection". Thenzwhisky.com. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  26. ^ Malt Whisky Yearbook 2014
  27. ^ Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2020

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