Complete Set Of The Macallan Anniversary Malts For Sale
A complete set of The Macallan Anniversary Single Malt Collection – 19 bottles in all – is set to go on sale and could be the only complete collection [not counting those at The Macallan distillery itself] in the world. The first bottle of The Macallan Anniversary Single Malt Collection was released in 1983 and […]
Garrison Brothers Brings The Heat With Cowboy Bourbon
Austin, Texas-based Garrison Brothers Distillery has released the 2025 edition – the 11th installment – of their annual Cowboy Bourbon. Garrison Brothers 2025 Cowboy Bourbon was matured for a minimum of eight years before being bottled at a mind-watering 73.2% alcohol by volume [146.4 proof] and after burning off your taste buds, is said to […]
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The Story Of The Spaniard Being Told By Compass Box
Compass Box is bringing The Story of the Spaniard to light. The Story of the Spaniard contains 48% ex-Sherry cask-aged whisky and 25% ex-red wine cask-aged whisky that has been bottled at 43% alcohol by volume – however, future batches will have the types of cask vary from year to year “based on availability and experimentation” – though either Sherry or Sherry-style wine casks, will always be used. The Story […]
Heineken Is The Only Beer For The Formula One Afterparty
If you are drinking Heineken beer, maybe you are at a Formula One afterparty?
Bud Light Has A Royal Affair
Bud Light is unveiling their new advertisements as the 2018 National Football League season gets underway – including “A Royal Affair” (below), in which the king has invited the neighboring nobles over for a party and some subtle subterfuge. Bud Light has also renewed their popular NFL team-specific cans for the 2018 season, updated to include the slogans and logos of the 28 teams. Anheuser-Busch InBev [Bud Light’s corporate overlord] […]
Ncn’ean Has Whisky Spirit
Scotland’s Ncn’ean Whisky Company has launched a new single malt called Botanical Spirit that is said to combine flavors typically found in whisky and gin. Ncn’ean’s Botanical Spirit is distilled twice at Ncn’ean’s whisky distillery, then once more at their gin distillery, where 10 botanicals are added, including such lively additions as coriander, juniper, sorrel, fresh heather grapefruit and wild bog myrtle. Ncn’ean’s Botanical Spirit is the first spirit launched […]
Benromach Releases Whisky For Their 20th Anniversary
The Benromach Distillery is celebrating their 20th anniversary with the release of Benromach Cask No 1 – a limited-edition expression taken from the first cask that was laid down when the distillery reopened after many years of closure – and all profits from the sale of Benromach Cask No 1 will be donated to charitable causes. Benromach Cask No 1 1998 vintage was bottled at The whisky, which was bottled […]
Dos Equis – 12 Fluid Ooouuunnnces!!!
Dos Equis keeps it “interesante” as football season begins…
Stella Artois Has Haute Pockets
Stella Artois is preparing for the upcoming New York Fashion Week (September 6-14, 2018) by rolling out their Haute Pockets – yet new places where you can put your smartphones. Alas, none of the items depicted are actually available for sale or as giveaways…
Gordon & MacPhail Goes Single Malt Crazy
Gordon & MacPhail will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of their “Connoisseurs Choice” range, and they are doing so properly – by adding a series of single malts aged 30 years and above to the range. Gordon & MacPhail’s new series of ‘Connoisseurs Choice’ releases are all aged to a minimum of 30 years and features single malts from various distilleries such as Mortlach, Caol Ila and Linkwood. In addition […]
BrewDog Network Turns To Streaming
The BrewDog Network has launched a $5-a-month subscription streaming service that promises to introduce a lineup of cocktail, craft beer, culinary and travel shows — but from a brand marketing perspective -since BrewDog is a craft beer maker with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. BrewDog co-founders James Watt and Martin Dickie previously had their own show on the now-defunct Esquire Network until NBCUniversal pulled the plug. The BrewDog Network has launched […]
Kingsbarns Has A Whisky
Kingsbarns used to provide their whisky only for members of their exclusive Founders’ Club [sorta like King Arthur’s Round Table] but now the Lowland distillery is offering their whisky to the peasantry, even if they are an Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune. Kingsbarns’ “The Founders’ Reserve”, a single malt, consists of several casks filled in 2015 using first-fill Bourbon barrels [provided by Kentucky’s Heaven Hill Distillery]. Kingsbarns’ The Founders’ Reserve will be made […]
Hall & Oates Makes Maltsmiths’ Dreams Come True
With an assist from Hall & Oates, UK brewer Maltsmiths can make their dreams come true… Maltsmiths, 'When You Love What You Do from Smoke & Mirrors on Vimeo.
La Aroma De Cuba Mi Amor: A Cuban-Ecuadorean-Nicaraguan Menage A Trois
The cigar with the long name – La Aroma de Cuba mi Amor [“the smell of Cuba, my love”] is the result of a ménage a trois between the Nicaraguan binder and filler with a wrapper originating from Cuban seed and grown in Ecuador. The culmination is a delight that may remind you of spice or chocolate or possibly some other long-repressed but favorable tasting memory from your youth. There […]
Constellation Buys Some Pot
Constellation Brands – owner of mega-popular Corona beer – has entered into a deal with Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth to invest a whopping $4 billion and take Constellation to 38% ownership in the company. Constellation already handed over $200 million to Canopy last year in the hopes of producing a non-alcoholic cannabis-based beverage but this investment is intended to take advantage of the worldwide trend of cannabis legalization with […]
Carlsberg Takes You To The River With Waterfall-Powered Pub
Danish brewer Carlsberg is enticing you to enjoy their beer in their ‘Carlsberg Cabin’ – your personal pub powered by hydro and solar power technology and built using only sustainable materials that comes complete with a Carlsberg Expørt DraughtMaster beer pump. Of course, you do not have to, but it would help if you already reside in the UK because the Carlsberg Cabin is located at Kudhva camping tripod experience […]
The Balvenie Fifty Marriage 0962
The Balvenie has released a 50-year-old they call “The Balvenie Fifty: Marriage 0962” – but you will have to have quite a bit of cash on hand to purchase said whisky. The Balvenie Fifty: Marriage 0962 has been matured in four American oak casks for 50 years before being bottled at 41.6% alcohol by volume [83.2 proof] resulting in a whisky that is said to contain notes of brown sugar, […]
Glenlivet Goes Back To 1943
Not much good news was coming out of the world in 1943 but in one corner of Scotland, whisky, amazingly, was still being distilled in the midst of all the chaos that was World War II – and the Private Collection Glenlivet 1943 single malt whisky will be available at auction McTear’s Rare & Collectible Whisky Auction in Glasgow this week. The Private Collection Glenlivet 1943 has been matured for […]
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