Matthew Evans — Founder
Hi, I'm Matthew Evans
Whiskey Consensus started in February 2017 as an Instagram account — just me, a bottle, and a camera. I was working in digital marketing and technology and wanted a creative outlet that combined my eye for photography with a growing obsession with whiskey. What I didn't expect was for it to become one of the most-followed independent whiskey platforms in the country.
Over the years, a community of contributors has helped build the review library into what it is today — hundreds of bottles across every major whiskey style, each one evaluated using the same five-category scoring system. The methodology has never changed. That consistency is what makes the scores mean something, and what makes every review directly comparable to every other one in the library.
No brand deals influencing scores, no shortcuts, no paid placements — just honest evaluations scored the same way every time. That's what gave Whiskey Consensus the credibility to build an audience of 250,000+ followers, and it's what makes every score on the site worth trusting — each one directly comparable to every other in the library.
Whiskey Consensus has always been more than just reviews. Alongside the scored bottle library, the site publishes recipes, industry news, press releases, and in-depth articles covering everything happening in the whiskey world. If it matters to whiskey enthusiasts, it belongs here.
Outside of whiskey, I'm an ultra distance runner, a car and watch enthusiast, and someone who takes community involvement seriously. The same drive that gets me through a 50-mile race is what keeps this platform running to the standard it was built on.
