Corona Showcases Huanchaco Furniture For Bars
Corona has collaborated with the northern Peruvian community of Huanchaco to showcase authentic, handcrafted furniture originating from artisans in that community. The Peruvian artisans from Huanchaco are renowned for creating small reed boats – known as caballitos de totora – for more than 3,000 years. The canoe-like boats, constructed from totora reeds – found primarily […]
Aberargie Debuts Single Malt Scotch
Aberargie Distillery has released their inaugural single malt Scotch – a barley-to-bottle single malt. Aberargie’s single malt Scotch has a mash bill of 52% Golden Promise heritage barley and 48% Laureate barley, was matured in both first-fill ex-bourbon and first-fill ex-sherry casks, bottled at 48.2% alcohol by volume [96.4 proof] and is said to contain […]
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The Macallan Reveals Exceptional Single Cask 50
Do you have $55,000 under your mattress or lying around the house somewhere? Then perhaps, if you are lucky, you can purchase a bottle of The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask 1950 single malt whisky. The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask 50 was aged in a first-fill sherry butt cask, bottled at 53.4% alcohol by volume [106.8 proof] and is said to contain notes of ginger, peaches, vanilla and “polished antique oak” […]
Gordon & MacPhail Release Their 2019 Summer Collection
There are only a few weeks left of summer 2019 but Gordon & MacPhail is making the most of them with their release of their Summer Collection featuring three whiskies from now-closed distilleries. The 2019 Gordon & MacPhail Summer Collection consists of Gordon & MacPhail 1966 from Longmorn Distillery, Gordon & MacPhail 1969 from Dallas Dhu Distillery and Gordon & MacPhail 1982 from St. Magdalene Distillery. Only 398 bottles of […]
Coors Light Is Made To Chill
Coors Light goes straight for the Millennial/Gen Z jugular with a new campaign with their new “Made to Chill” campaign. The sales of Bud Light and Coors Light — the two biggest beer brands in the U.S. — are both down this year, Bud Light slumping at 5.7% and Coors Light not much better with their minus 2.5%. But Coors Light is attempting to stop that slide with a trio […]
Parker’s Heritage Collection Has A Rye
Parker’s Heritage Collection has added a rye – Parker’s Heritage Collection Heavy Char Rye Whiskey – to their collection dedicated to supporting ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] research and patient care. Parker’s Heritage Collection Heavy Char Rye Whiskey has been aged in charred barrels for nearly nine years, bottled at 52.5% alcohol by volume [105 proof]. Parker’s Heritage Collection Heavy Char Rye Whiskey is being made available for $150 per 750ml […]
Teeling Debuts Chinkapin Oak Cask-Finished Whiskey
Teeling has released Irish whiskey finished in chinkapin virgin white oak casks from Eastern and Central North America. Chinkapin oak is also known as yellow chestnut oak, rock oak or yellow oak and its straight wood was used by early pioneers to make thousands of miles of fences in the states of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana as well as fuel for the steamships that ran from Pittsburgh to New Orleans […]
SDCC 2019 – The Walking Dead Get Their Own Whiskey
The Walking Dead will receive their own whiskey by Spirits of the Apocalypse [a collaboration between lumbering spirits behemoth Diageo and Skybound Entertainment, the company responsible for producing the comic book of the television series]. The new whiskey – The Walking Dead Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey – was announced at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con. The Walking Dead Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has been bottled at 47% alcohol by […]
Woodford Reserve Brings Wheat Whiskey To The Party
Woodford Reserve is introducing Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey to their array of popular Bourbon spirits. Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey is made with 52% wheat, 20% malt, 20% corn and 8% rye, bottled at 45.2% alcohol by volume [90.4 proof] and is said to contain notes of cinnamon, coconut and spicy apple. Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey is being made available worldwide for $35 per 750ml bottle.
Dadgum! Oak & Eden Has Beer-Finished Whiskies
Oak & Eden Ale Series features a pair of beer-finished whiskies – Rahr Soaked Malted Oak and Rahr Soaked Hopped Oak – with beer supplied from Texas-based Rahr & Sons Brewery and each whiskey bottled with a five-inch spiral piece of American oak. The Oak & Eden Rahr Soaked Malted Oak consists of Bourbon bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof] with a heavily toasted American oak spire soaked […]
Jameson Showcases Triple Triple
You have heard of a double-double? Well, Jameson is releasing their Triple Triple – a triple-distilled and blended Irish whiskey derived from a combination of ex-Bourbon and Sherry casks, along with fortified wine casks from Malaga, Spain. Jameson Triple Triple has been bottled at 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and is said to contain notes of cinnamon, citrus, pear and spice. “Jameson Triple Triple is being made available for […]
Copper & Kings Brings Bourbon Barreled Brandy
Copper & Kings has released a limited edition brandy they have called Way Up West – which has spent 30 months in both a bourbon and American single malt whiskey barrel. Copper & Kings Way Up West is derived from a blend of Chenin Blanc, French Colombard and Muscat brandy grapes grown in the Pacific Northwest and bottled at 54% alcohol by volume [108 proof]. Copper & Kings Way Up […]
The Macallan 72 Goes On The Block
The Macallan 72 Years Old – a 72-year-old single malt bottled in a Lalique crystal decanter – is on the auction block from Just Whisky auctioneers in Scotland. The Macallan 72 Years Old in Lalique – The Genesis Decanter was released last year to celebrate the June 2019 opening of the new Macallan distillery and is limited to 600 decanters worldwide. Just Whisky is recognized as the top auction for […]
Eric Cantona Returns From Space
Former French footballer Eric Cantona was sent to space to prove that Kronenbourg 1664 was ‘le taste supreme’ in the universe and he has returned from space…or more accurately, the famous dance party haven of the Space nightclub in Ibiza…
Jack Daniel’s Does The Beer Barrel Whiskey Polka
Jack Daniel’s adds to their limited edition Tennessee Taster’s Series with the release of Barrel Proof Rye and Reunion Barrel #2. Jack Daniel’s Barrel Proof Rye – the first rye in the series – has been bottled at 63.8% alcohol by volume [127.6 proof] (63.8% abv) with a 70% rye grain bill and is said to contain notes of fruit and toasted oak. Jack Daniel’s Reunion Barrel #2 has been […]
Westward Goes East
Portland-based Westward has gone east – Singapore, specifically – with their newest American single malt whiskey. Westward Whiskey is bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof]. After a successful launch in Australia, Westward Whiskey is being made available in selected restaurants and bars in Singapore.
Tomintoul Celebrates Ronnie’s Jazz Club With Special Edition Whisky
Tomintoul is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Ronnie’s Jazz Club in London with a special edition 12-year-old Scotch whisky blend. Ronnie’s Tomintoul blend uses single malt from Tomintoul, was aged in a sherry cask, bottled at 43% alcohol by volume [86 proof] and is said to contain notes of dried fruit, peat and smoke. Only 1,000 bottles of Ronnie’s Tomintoul Scotch is being made available worldwide for $95 per bottle.
Idris Elba Meets Stella Artois For A Summer Vacation
Stella Artois has employed Idris Elba to talk about summer vacations…
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