Sep 21, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
Buffalo Trace gets into the RTD game, MGP finally steps out of the shadows with its own bourbon, and Pappy season is officially upon us. Plus, I’ve got an update on that Trails End 10-year bourbon, a…
John StarkHost
You know, I gave you all my kind of a micro review of that Trails End 10-year bourbon.

And for me, transparency, that's a word I think it's getting better in some cases in the whiskey world, especially in the last year or two.

But in many cases, and this trails end is one of them, I feel like you have to dig and dig and dig.

I do wish these cats at trails and along with what's got to be dozens and dozens of other NDPs out there, I just wish they would tell us the truth up front.

I wanted to know more about this Trails End 10 year that I was sipping on at Timberland Lodge in Oregon up on Mount Hood.

So the speculation on Al Gore's amazing internet was it was a Heaven Hill distillate.

You know, I gave you all my kind of a micro review of that Trails End 10-year bourbon.

And for me, transparency, that's a word I think it's getting better in some cases in the whiskey world, especially in the last year or two.

But in many cases, and this trails end is one of them, I feel like you have to dig and dig and dig.

I do wish these cats at trails and along with what's got to be dozens and dozens of other NDPs out there, I just wish they would tell us the truth up front.

I wanted to know more about this Trails End 10 year that I was sipping on at Timberland Lodge in Oregon up on Mount Hood.

So the speculation on Al Gore's amazing internet was it was a Heaven Hill distillate.
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