With St. Patrick’s Day getting ever closer, one of the most important drinks of the day will be Irish Coffee – not your mass-produced, whipped, lady-drink version of the classic, but rather a proper Irish Coffee using Teeling Irish Whiskey, an Irish Whiskey from Dublin’s famed Golden Triangle of distilleries. WC would have you have […]
St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, inching closer and closer each day, and the more recipes you have, the better prepared you are for the luck of the Irish. WC presents you with today’s St. Patrick’s Day recipe – the Caraway Cocktail… Caraway Cocktail Simple Syrup Concoction: 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 1 […]
There can be [mostly] universal agreement that whisky is good, but beyond that, there is typically whisky-fueled debate on how to go about drinking said whisky. Eastside Distilling from Portland, Oregon, is not taking sides but they do have a few twists to add to the traditional whisky cocktail recipes with some of their signature […]
The 86th annual Academy Awards occur this weekend and while you can’t be there on the red carpet, you can at least consume cocktails as if you were there. The official champagne is the Champagne Thierot Brut from Reims and that’s for toasting the winners. Johnnie Walker is the official Scotch whisky of the Oscars […]
American snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg won a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in slopestyle snowboarding and now has a whisky cocktail named after him in a Park City, Utah ski resort where he grew up – this, despite the fact that the ski resort itself is one of the last few […]
2014 is right around the corner – only a few more hours now – and that means there is some heavy pressure to ring in the new year correctly when it comes to cocktails. The wrong cocktail on New Year’s Eve can spell doom for the rest of the year. Fortunately, WhiskyCritic is here to […]
1963 was a very good year – and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise – and that’s how Glenmorangie feels about it as well, when they announced the unveiling of 50 bottles of Glenmorangie 1963. Encased in a leather strapped “time capsule” package, the whisky was bottled in 1987 at 23 years of age. Only […]
You know somebody who either already likes the brown liquor or – you heavily suspect – wants to like it and now all you need is a proper holiday gift to match the enthusiasm. Probably the first step is determining how they spell it – whisky or whiskey? Whisky is generally spelled that way if […]