Brown-Forman Shuffles Jack Daniels Facilities
USA’s Brown-Forman spirits company is shuffling their Jack Daniels facilities – making the 80,000-square-foot Pinnacle warehouse facility, the manufacturing site for Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails, available for super-premium American whiskey production – and moving their ready-to-drink (RTD) products to an undisclosed external manufacturing facility. The Pinnacle warehouse is located on the same Louisville, Kentucky campus […]
Angus Dundee Whisky Distillery Opens in China
Another popular whisky distillery has joined the China bandwagon that has seen whisky giants such as Pernod Ricard, open distilleries, Angus Dundee Distillers is constructing a new whisky distillery and a visitor experience center in Ghan’un, China. Diageo and Camus already hold constructions in China. As part of its expansion plan, Angus Dundee Distillers, which […]
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Tamdhu Rolls Out Batch Strength Whisky
In a new foray for the distillery, Tamdhu has revealed a Batch Strength version of its Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. The Tamdhu Batch Strength whisky was aged in sherry oak casks before being bottled at 58.8% alcohol content [117.6 proof]. Tamdhu whiskies use water from the Tamdhu spring and are known for their highly peated barley.
Kavalan Named World’s Best Whisky
Kavalan – or by its full name, Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique – whisky was named as the world’s best single malt Scotch whisky at the World Whisky Awards this week. What makes it unique is not so much its distinctly non-Scottish name but rather its dinstinctly non-Scottish distillery location – in Taiwan. This Taiwanese-produced single malt Scotch whisky was praised by the judging panel with having notes of fruitcake, clove, […]
The Tipperary Cocktail For St. Patrick’s Day
Courtesy of Distinguished Spirits – the recipe for the “Tipperary” cocktail, an ideal cocktail for St. Patrick’s Day…
Jameson Goes All 3D On Us For St. Patrick’s Day
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and Jameson is going to sell plenty of Irish whiskey worldwide today – but just in case they might have missed somebody who doesn’t know about their popular brand – they have released a 3D advertisement on their Instagram page [see link below] that features a disembodied hand sliding a shot of presumably Jameson Irish whiskey down the bar for another waiting disembodied hand to […]
2 Gingers Founder Shares St. Patrick’s Day Recipe
Kieran Folliard, founder of 2 Gingers Irish whiskey and native Irish person, shares a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail recipe using, of course, 2 Gingers Irish whiskey…
Grand MacNish Gives You The Best Of Scotland
There are six touted whisky regions in Scotland and each has its own distinct identity which is usually confined to one bottle at a time – but what if you could get the best qualities of each of the regions in a single bottle? That is the reasoning behind Grand MacNish Six Cask Edition, a Scotch whisky blend composed of whiskies from each of Scotland’s signature whisky-producing regions – Campbeltown, […]
Macallan 50-Year-Old Sells At Auction
A bottle of Macallan 50-Year-Old sold for $31,875 at the Bonhams auction in Edinburgh, Scotland today. The Macallan 50-Year-Old was stored in a custom Lalique crystal decanter.
Isle Of Arran Releases 18-Year Old
Isle of Arran Distillery has officially released their 18-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky – the third of a single malt trilogy, following releases of 16-and 17-Year Old single malts. Isle of Arran 18-Year-Old was aged in ex-sherry Hogshead casks and bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof]. Only 9000 bottles of Isle of Arran 18-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky will be released beginning on March 16, 2015.
A New Restorative Beverage For Invalids And Convalescents
Independent Scottish brewery, BrewDog, has announced their new Restorative Beverage for Invalids and Convalescents. The Restorative Beverage for Invalids and Convalescents is an old-school India Pale Ale based on IPA’s brewed in the mid-1800s and uses Amarillo, Centennial and Citra hops – hops known for their bitterness – in producing an 8.7% alcohol content IPA. The catchy name is based on an entry from pharmacologist Jonathan Pereira in a medical […]
Bastille 1789 Takes You On A Strange Adventure
There’s a new French whisky in town, see? It’s called Bastille 1789, see? So you want to know something about it, see? Then you may find that difficult after watching “A Strange Adventure”, see?
A St. Patrick’s Day Option – Midleton Dair Ghaelach Irish Whiskey – If You’re In Ireland
The Irish whiskies will be coming out of woodwork the next seven days – but that is a good thing – and the latest arrival for your drinking consideration on St. Patrick’s Day next week is single pot still Irish whiskey Midleton Dair Ghaelach. This particular Irish whiskey was finished in virgin Irish oak Hogshead casks after first having been matured for between 15 and 22 years in traditional ex-Bourbon […]
Mullets And Musical Beers
Chris Hemsworth and Hugh Jackman donned mullets and joined host Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” for a game of musical beers….
The St. Patrick’s Day Alternative To Guinness – Innis & Gunn
St. Patrick’s Day is next week and if beer is your drink of choice on the day when everybody is Irish, then soon you will find yourself inundated in everything Guinness wherever you go. That is not necessarily a bad thing but if you would like to consider alternatives to the popular Guinness, you could do worse than Innis & Gunn’s Irish Whiskey Stout, released especially for St. Patrick’s Day. […]
Forget The Root – It’s Guinness Beer Float For St. Patrick’s Day
If you happen to find yourself in The Lobby Lounge of the JW Marriott Hotel in Chicago [provide you can get there through the snow] on St. Patrick’s Day, then you might want to consider a drink they will be offering to guests specifically for the occasion – a root beer float subbing out the root beer and replacing it with Guinness. The resulting concoction comes with vanilla bean ice […]
Proper Irish Coffee For St. Patrick’s Day
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 nothing less for the big day [which is less than two weeks away now]. So, […]
Get Carawayed On St. Patrick’s Day
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 teaspoon Caraway Seed , coarsely crushed Caraway Stout Cocktail: 2 tablespoons Caraway Simple Syrup 1 […]
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