The Macallan Melds With McCartneys For Meadow Whiskies
The Macallan has collaborated with sisters Stella and Mary McCartney to create The Macallan Harmony Collection Amber Meadow and Green Meadow – a pair of single malt whiskies inspired by the McCartneys’ shared memories of the Scottish countryside. The Macallan Harmony Collection Amber Meadow was matured in a combination of sherry-seasoned oak and bourbon casks, […]
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Lob Your Knob Into The Creek Sweepstakes
As long as you are over the age of 21 and do not reside in Washington, D.C., you are eligible to enter the Knob Creek National Summer Sweepstakes which began earlier this month. The grand prize is a chance to tour the Knob Creek distillery at the Jim Beam American Stillhouse in Clermont, Kentucky with Master Distiller Fred Noe on September 27-29, 2013 and afterward, enjoy a personal grill-out session […]
Whiskey Has A New Flavor
It used to be, back in the day, you could tell the whiskey drinker in the crowd. He – and it had to be a “he” because if it was a “she” you probably had some additional things to worry about besides your garden variety whiskey addiction – would most likely be an older fellow and be sporting a beard or, at the very least, a very professor-like persona which […]
Kevin Spacey Gets First Shot
If you already like Kevin Spacey then you will probably like him even more when you find out that he has teamed with fellow actor Willem Dafoe in an indie film project sponsored by the Jameson Whiskey. The way it works is this – Spacey’s film production company accepts entries for short films that must star his friend Dafoe and not include explicit product placement nor excessive drinking. Spacey selects […]
Whiskey Has Little Effect On Your John Thomas
So this is what it has come to in our society, eh? The recent prevalence of whiskey/whisky as the liquor du jour [replacing vodka, we can only presume] has brought us to the next logical step in the guy brain – specifically, how will whiskey imbibing affect the rigidity of my penis when it comes time for the big show? Yes, there are people – men, usually – who want […]
Whiskey Discovered By Vegas, Baby!
Whiskey or whisky or bourbon or whatever you want to call it and however you want to spell it has always been easily found in Las Vegas from bottom of the barrel varieties to the well-aged, exquisitely coddled high end brown alcoholic liquids. The difference now during the whiskey boom is the relative shortage of fine whiskies coupled with the fact that the casinos have discovered they can now charge […]
It Is Always Beer Hunting Season
When Michael Jackson first stepped on the floor with his brothers Tito, Marlon and …oh, wait a minute, wrong Michael Jackson. The Michael Jackson who shares his name with with that “other” Michael Jackson is noted for his beer hunting ability rather than his ABC’s…unless it is the ABC’s of beer. Michael Jackson of “Beer Hunter” television series fame has several other things in common with that other Michael Jackson […]
Whisky And E3
In case you may have been wondering how whisky and coverage of E3 collide – here is your answer. In case you are wondering what E3 stands for, it is Electronic Entertainment Expo and it is held in Los Angeles during the next three days. That means you have to like video games – a lot. If you like whisky and video games – a lot – then you have […]
Beer And The Pool
Father’s Day is rapidly approaching and if you haven’t already devised what your plans will be for dear old Dad, then SpaNautica – the spa at the swanky Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey, California – has a Plan B option for you. Relaxing poolside with a beer after a therapeutic massage delivered by Kate Upton and other members of Maxim’s Hot 100. Okay, so that last part was our […]
Wash, Rinse, Repeat For Maker’s Mark
First, Maker’s Mark wants to begin adding water to their bourbon in a desperation attempt to capture as much of the whiskey boom as possible in an industry that typically requires time [not looking at you, Cleveland Whiskey] to properly age bourbon. The backlash from that bright idea was so harsh that it forced MM to back off their plans. That went so well that MM has now decided that […]
Week Whiskey From Cleveland
According to tradition, bourbon whiskey should be aged in charred American oak barrels for at least nine years, preferably 10-12 years – at least the really good stuff, like Woodford Double Oaked or Knob Creek. But in Cleveland, Ohio – not far but far enough from the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky – entrepreneur Tom Lix is busy pumping out 1000 bottles of Cleveland Whiskey a week and selling out. Lix […]
Arts And Crafts
Twenty years ago – has it been that long already? – the big beer giants of the world were knocked on their collective asses by what started out small and what would be destined to become all the rage – the now much-ballyhooed craft beer brewery [or microbrewery, if you so desire] movement. The popularity of home-brewing in the 1980s turned thousands of people – mostly males who didn’t have […]
Maker’s Mark Madness For Louisville
Back in April, the University of Louisville Cardinal defeated Michigan 74-68 and won the 2013 version of March Madness – the NCAA national championship – and the accolades and tributes began pouring in and have yet to stop as it was announced earlier this month that famed Kentucky bourbon label Maker’s Mark will make Louisville Cardinal head coach Rick Pitino the honoree of a special limited bottling of Maker’s Mark […]
Nectar of the Gods – Sinatra Select – Availability Increases
Frank Sinatra had a sponsorship contract with Chivas scotch in the latter portions of his long and famous entertainment career – but it was a flask of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 – which he referred to as “nectar of the gods” – with which he was buried when he passed away 15 years ago. Although Sinatra was never an official spokesman of the brand, he was a hefty unofficial […]
Manhattan Rolls Out The Red Carpet For Cocktails
If you can’t get to Tucson for BaconFest, there’s always Manhattan for the fifth annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic. It’s too late for tickets to the main events but there’s still time to snag tickets to the first two sessions of Mandarine Napoleon’s Double Buzz: Coffee and Cocktails as well as sessions in schnapps, mescal and lemon vodka. But what about the whisky, you cry? Well, as can be expected, all […]
Bacon Cures All That Ails Ya
Whether it’s strangling some grilled asparagus or has wrapped itself around hot dogs or scallops or embedded itself in meat loaf or brownies or simply adorned itself atop some maple bars, bacon is one of life’s greatest guilty pleasures. Yeah, sure, we know consuming pounds of it will hasten your death by 14 years. Whatever. It tastes so good! No matter where you put it…even in beer and whisky – […]
Try Dry Fly
When you first saunter upon the Dry Fly Distillery collection of whiskies, there is nothing about the packaging that either oozes old school dignity nor screams brazen young whippersnapper superficial taunts. It looks rather nondescript with a rather stodgy [if you ask me] fly-fishing fly as a logo. But this mostly belies what is held within the confines of their glass coffins. Some of it is mediocre, some of it […]
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