By Father John Rayls

Rating: A

Elijah Craig 12 Single Barrel.
The “single barrel” and age
statement are on the back
of this private barrel bottling

One of the great things about enjoying whiskey is that it’s a very personal thing, and I really enjoy all things Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Yet I strayed from this camp after Heaven Hill abandoned the 12 Year Old Bourbon for a no age statement (NAS) version of their economical small batch whiskey.

That was up until about two weeks ago, when a friend of mine started telling me about…