My Tales Of Whisky By Nick Offerman – Yule Log
Just in case you required it to help you celebrate the holiday season – actor Nick Offerman sips Lavagulin Scotch whisky for 45 minutes in front of a crackling yule log…
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Corona Holiday Ad – 25 Years And Counting…
For the 25th year in a row, Corona will be running its annual holiday advertisement featuring a palm tree strung with festive lights while the tune “O, Tannenbaum” is whistled throughout. The advertisement debuted in November 1990 and Corona has run it every year since then, making it one of the longest continually-running advertisement of […]
The Royal Salute Age Collection
Normally, spouting off about one’s age is not considered to be a good thing, but in the case of The Age Collection from Royal Salute Scotch whisky, it is most definitely a good thing. Royal Salute has put together 10 whisky blends varying in age from a 21-year-old whippersnapper to a 30-year-old geezer. Each whisky […]
Crown Royal Crowned World Whisky Of The Year
Canadian blended whiskey Crown Royal has been crowned as the World Whisky of the Year for 2016 by noted whisky expert, Jim Murray. Specifically, Crown Royal’s Northern Harvest Rye was the whisky that caught Murray’s eye as Murray awarded 97.5 out of a possible 100 points to the whisky from Manitoba. Joining Crown Royal Northern […]
Ballantine’s Gets All Oaked Up
Ballantine’s is offering two oaked-up whiskies – Ballantine’s 21-Year-Old Signature Oak Edition [European Oak] along with an American Oak Oak Edition to follow later on – exclusively for the travel retail sector. Ballantine’s 21-Year-Old Signature Oak Edition [European Oak] will have been matured in European oak casks that have previously held sherry. Bottled at 40% […]
Chattanooga 100 Choo Choo Steams Out Of Tennessee
A new white whiskey – named Chattanooga 100 to celebrate 100 years of prohibition in Chattanooga – has emerged in Tennessee. The limited edition white whiskey has a mash bill containing more than 51% corn. Only 100 cases of Chattanooga 100 have been produced.
Diageo Creates Whisky Union With Smoky Goat And Boxing Hares
International spirit industry giant, Diageo, has created the whisky equivalent of the craft brewing industry in beer with the formation of what they are calling Whisky Union – an “experimental craft whisky offshoot” that aims to promote various whiskies from a collection of small distilleries. First up on the promotion board are two whiskies called […]
Dramatically Improve Bad Whiskey
The best way to dramatically improve bad whiskey is, of course, to have the gul’darned good sense not to buy it in the first place! Barring that, well, there is always the pet rock idea of the whiskey industry as represented by Whiskey Elements and lampooned [we think…well, we hope] by VAT 19…