Jack Daniel’s Feeling Their Age With Series Release
Jack Daniel’s has debuted their 2025 Aged Series releases – a 10-year-old Batch 4, a 12-year-old Batch 3 and a 14-year-old Tennessee whiskey [the most elderly whiskey released in the last 100 years from Jack Daniel’s]. Jack Daniel’s 14-year-old Tennessee Whiskey consists of a mash bill of 80% corn, 12% malted barley and 8% rye, […]
Green River Evokes Spirits For Promotion Of Their Bourbon
Green River Distilling has debuted their new promotional campaign entitled “Raise Your Spirits” which revives a joke-telling ghost as part of the quality control process. Green River Distilling is based in Owensboro, Kentucky, was founded in 1885 and is listed as the 10th oldest licensed distillery in the state. Nearby family-owned Bardstown Bourbon Company purchased […]
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Glen Grant 50-Year-Old Surfaces In Japan Next Month
Ten bottles of Glen Grant 50-Year-Old will be sold in Japan next month. Only 150 bottles of the single malt Scotch whisky were made available worldwide and 10 of those will be sold by Asahi Breweries. The whisky began the maturing process in a single sherry cask in October 1963 and was bottled in November 2013 and is said to have notes of orange and baked apples. When they go […]
Gronk Win Super Bowl, Gronk Drink Fireball
After winning the Super Bowl in dramatic fashion, the New England Patriots held the obligatory celebratory parade during which ardent fans toss alcoholic items to Patriot tight end Rob Gronkowski to drink, or rather, chug. One of these was a mini-bottle of Fireball, ahem, whiskey. Whisky – and even, whiskey – aficionados deplore the cinnamon-flavored, anti-freeze-based liquid but Gronk has no problem tossing it down the gullet before finishing it […]
Prohibition Era Moonshine Whiskey Reincarnated In Manhattan
Jump in your H.G. Wells time machine and travel back to 1930s USA with the introduction of Manhattan Moonshine – a “Prohibition-style” un-aged white whiskey. Manhattan Moonshine uses oats, rye and spelt during the creation of its clear whiskey, uncolored by the standard, typical barrel-aging process, to produce a less-heavily noted spirit that is more suitable for cocktail destinations than straight up imbibing. Manhattan Moonshine is currently scheduled to become […]
Caple Rd Canned Craft Cider Appears Next Month
Weston has launched Caple Rd Cider – a new craft cider in a can. Caple Rd Cider has 5.2% alcohol content, uses the juice of English apples and is matured in oak for 18 months. Caple Rd Cider will be available – mostly in the UK – for $6 per can in February 2015.
Nestdrop Provides Super Bowl Booze Delivery If You Live In Los Angeles
If you plan on watching the Super Bowl and you are lucky enough to live in Los Angeles while doing it then if you – horrors! – run low on alcohol while watching the Patriots and Seahawks maul each other, Nestdrop has your back. The LA-based delivery service will be offering a 15% discount only available to Los Angeles residents from now until the end of the game on Sunday. […]
Cider And Irish Whiskey – Like Peanut Butter And Jelly
Magners has paired Irish Whiskey with traditional cider for a new Irish Whiskey-infused cider with a 5.5% alcohol content. Every 500-ml bottle of Magner’s cider will contain 25-ml worth of Irish whiskey. Magners’ Irish whiskey-infused cider will be available in the UK in February 2015.
Thatcher’s Has Haze From Somerset Instead Of Purple
Jimi Hendrix famously sung about a purple haze but Thatcher’s Cider has switched that to Somerset in launching their two new ciders – Somerset Haze and Red. Somerset Haze is a cloudy cider using Discovery, Falstaff, Gala and Jonagold [the one responsible for the haze] apples to produce its 4.5% alcohol content creation while the Red is a 4% alcohol content concoction that is a result of the Katy and […]
Becks’ Haig Club Whisky Ad Clears UK Watchdog Whiners
English footballer David Beckham participated in an advertisement video for Haig Club Scotch whisky that was directed by Guy Ritchie, only to incur the wrath of a UK watchdog agency that initially proposed the ad was using Beckham’s global icon status to condone drinking for those who were underage. But the agency’s complaints were denied by the UK’s main alcohol advertising organization and was given the green light for the […]
Diageo Opens Up Distillery Doors With Google Business View
Spirits giant, Diageo – owners of many of the world’s most famous and notable whisky brands – has opened up the doors to four of its famous whisky distilleries via Google’s Business View. The unprecedented access for a whisky brand gives a virtual tour of Cardhu Distillery [see link below] along with The Singleton of Glen Ord, Talisker and Lagavulin distilleries. Source: Cardhu Distillery
Bud Light Has Your Super Bowl Commercial
Depending on how you feel about Bud Light, Pac-Man and the Super Bowl – Bud Light’s new Super Bowl commercial can either be a bad or a good thing…
Jameson Debuts Dublin Edition For St. Patty’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is still just under two months away but Jameson is not waiting around as they unveiled their new Dublin Edition Irish whiskey – dubbed “Hello Dublin” – that they will make available for the festivities. The Jameson Hello Dublin Edition whiskey displays an artistic label featuring Dublin landmarks such as Trinity College and Clery’s clock as well as Dublinesque sayings. Dublin was the location of Jameson’s first […]
Kilbeggan 21-Year-Old Comes Out Of The Woodwork
Kilbeggan 21-Year-Old blended Irish whiskey is becoming available this year at European travel retail outlets. The whiskey is the result of selected casks of grain and malt whiskies aged in ex-Bourbon, port, sherry and Madeira casks and bottled at 40% alcohol content [80 proof] to produce the most mature blended Irish whiskey in the Kilbeggan stable. Kilbeggan 21-Year-Old is available at European travel retail outlets only for $115 per bottle.
Glenmorangie Brings Tusail To The Table
Glenmorangie has released another limited edition whisky – Tusail – the sixth release in their Private Edition collection. Glenmorangie Tusail is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky using a specialty variety of barley [Maris Otter winter] that was harvested in 1975 and is said to deploy deeper flavors of toffee, malt, ginger, cinnamon and molasses to complement the usual Glenmorangie peach, orange and pear fruity notes. Glenmorangie Tusail [which is […]
Here’s Some Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Rye In Your Eye
Jim Beam was one of the many American whiskey distributors who were more than happy with the 1933 repeal of Prohibition in the USA and to show how happy they were with this momentous whiskey historical event, they have debuted a “Pre-Prohibition Style” Rye whiskey for your taste buds. The Pre-Prohibition Style Rye has been bottled at 90 proof [45% alcohol content], features black pepper, vanilla and oak notes and […]
Michael Owen Wants You To Keep Spey Whisky A Secret
Former English footballer Michael Owen is a partner in Speyside Distillery’s Spey Whiskey – but he wants you to keep the whisky a secret in this advertisment video geared toward a Chinese audience..
Newcastle Is Looking Forward To The Super Bowl
The Beer Marketing…er, Super…Bowl is mere days aways now and nobody is looking forward to the opportunity to drop $4.5 million on a 30-second advertisement during the game than Newcastle Brown Ale. Nobody. Except perhaps Aubrey Plaza…
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