Chris Pratt Use Fireball For Acting Lessons
Actor Chris Pratt recently took a break from a GQ modeling session to down some Fireball whiskey and dole out some acting advice in the process…
Whiskey Articles
2015 Women’s World Cup WhiskyCritic Drinking Game
The 2015 Women’s World Cup is officially underway and now all you need to go along with the expanded tournament is a Bud Light Lime….no, just joking….an official WhiskyCritic drinking game. Whether or not you mean to savor or slug your whisky [we are not judging you and your whisky-drinking preferences], you still need a […]
Deutsch Family Finds Redemption
New York-based Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits has officially bought Redemption Whiskey – which is distilled in Indiana and bottled in Kentucky. Deutsch, previously primarily a wine brand owner – whose most notable brand in yellow tail from Australia – purchases a Redemption portfolio which consists of Redemption Straight Rye Whiskey, Redemption High Rye Bourbon, […]
Brown-Forman And Teeling Make Moves As Irish Whiskey Explosion Underway
Not waiting around for the market to soften, both Brown-Forman and Teeling have made moves involving actual and potential Irish whiskey distilleries in Ireland. Brown-Forman – whose bourbon/whiskey brands include Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve – have formally purchased Slane Castle Whiskey Limited with the intent of opening a distillery near Dublin. Meanwhile, Teeling has […]
Bordeaux Casks Hit The Green Spot
For the first time ever, Green Pot Single Pot still Irish Whiskey will be finished in Bordeaux casks. Originally aged in three different casks – consisting of former Oloroso sherry, former bourbon and new bourbon – Green Pot is finished out in the former Bordeaux wine casks for a period ranging between one and two […]
Netherlands Unveils Whisky By X
You got your standard 12-year-old Scotch whisky, good, but Company X in the Netherlands has imported said Scottish whisky, filtered it with both gold and diamonds and since that is so clearly not enough, they then “body-blended” it – by which, they mean they have poured it over the body of one of two porn […]
Happy World Whisky Day!
We have officially – finally – reached World Whisky Day 2015 and events are going on around the world to celebrate the occasion. To find your local event, refer to the official website [see link below] but if there are no official events in your area, there is rule against organizing your own event and […]
Blade And Bow – The Key American Bourbon Whiskey
There are two parts of a skeleton key – the blade and bow – and that is the symbolism used for the new Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey, which uses the skeleton key reference as a way of paying tribute to the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. Blade and Bow will be released […]