The new numbers are out from the number crunchers and they are essentially saying the same thing as they have been saying for the last couple years – whiskey/whisky has become everybody’s best liquor friend these days, replacing the vodka boom of last decade. All the largest distillers have reported whopping increases in their whisky/whiskey […]
The Portsoy Distillery in Scotland produced its first whisky since being taken over by BenRiach Distillery in March – a 30-year-old Glengassaugh single malt – that promises a first wave full of fruit [peach, mango, banana are most often mentioned] followed by a finishing wave of toffee, ginger and oak spiciness. The new 30-year-old Glenngassaugh […]
Labor Day Weekend is rapidly approaching – it may already have arrived for some of you – and that means you may be put under pressure to come up with some quirky recipe that deviates from the norm of BBQ burgers, hot dogs, potato salad and whatnot [it’s that whatnot that always gets you]. If […]
If you live in the upper Midwest portion of the United States of America, then you probably already had access to 2 Gingers whiskey – but only if you lived in the right cities in the 10 states where it was available before June. But now nine more states were added to the 2 Gingers […]
Jameson is already a well-known Irish whiskey brand but it is about to be even more well-known in at least eight cities around the world after the company unveiled their City Editions this month that feature labels for eight worldwide cities – Amsterdam, Bangkok, Dublin, London, Moscow, Paris, Singapore and Sydney. These limited edition Jameson […]
Finding moonshine in the state of Nebraska – or roughly the 900-mile radius thereabouts – is rarely a problem, finding single malt whiskies, however – that is more problematic. Mostly because Nebraska happens to be located amidst cornfields in the USA and not in Speyside in Scotland. But Nebraskans are nothing if not resilient and […]
Actor Phil Morris in his Jackie Chiles character [a parody of famed O.J. Simpson lawyer, Johnnie Cochran] is representing the bees in a fake lawsuit brought against the bears for wasting honey by eating it when it should be saved to go into Jim Beam Honey whiskey…
Whether or not you choose to believe it, it makes for a good story around the whiskey-drinking table. As Wild Turkey master distiller Eddie Russell tells it, the WT distillery crew “mistakenly” combined rare 22% four-year-old rye with 78% six-year-old bourbon and the resulting newborn was a 91 proof [45.5% alcohol] small batch bourbon-rye whiskey […]