Bushmills Expands Prestige Collection With 26-Year-Old
Irish whiskey icon Bushmills has added a 26-year-old single malt – Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt – to their luxury Prestige Single Malt Collection. The 26-year-old joins three other Irish whiskies [25-, 30- and 31-year-old] in Bushmills Prestige Collection. Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt was created using crystal malt barley [barley in which […]
Johnnie Walker Preps For The Lunar New Year With Blue Label Edition
Blended Scotch whisky icon, Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition label design for their Lunar New Year Blue Label whisky celebrating 2025 as the Year of the Snake. The label was designed by Asian American artist James Jean and is said to symbolize an ‘auspicious ambition for constant progression and self-reinvention’, while featuring three […]
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Liberty Distillery Releases Railspur #3 Spike
Canadian distiller, Liberty Distillery, has released their “newest” whiskey – Railspur #3 Spike – a barley-based aged spirit that is too new to officially be called whiskey. Aged for only a single year in ex-bourbon barrels, “Railspur #3 Spike” is bottled at 45% alcohol content [90 proof] and promises notes of fruit, spice and vanilla. “Railspur #3 Spike” will be available for $40 per 750-ml bottle beginning on October 9, […]
Studebakers Resurface – But Not The Kind You Think
Once upon a time, Studebakers were considered to be the cream of the crop in the automotive world – and that is the sentiment gigantic spirits industry icon Diageo would like to tap into as they launch their line of “Studebaker” whisky-infused cocktail drinks. Two cocktail varieties will debut with the Studebaker line – the venerable Old-Fashioned and the Manhattan – both using blended Canadian whiskies for their whisky parts. […]
Bulleit’s Stitzel-Weller Distillery Offered As X-Mas Gift
Bulleit’s Louisville, Kentucky-based Stitzel-Weller Distillery can be all yours – or purchased as a Christmas gift for somebody – this holiday season. The upscale Neiman-Marcus catalog is offering the bourbon distillery as a “Fantasy Gift” in its annual Christmas Book of high-end giftery [see link below]. The gift is actually part of Bulleit’s Orphan Barrel project. The Orphan Barrel project was started to share long-forgotten barrels of rare whiskey discovered […]
Beam Suntory Releases Hibiki Japanese Harmony Master’s Select Whisky
Beam Suntory has released a new whisky – Hibiki Japanese Harmony Master’s Select – exclusively for the global travel retail segment of the international market. Hibiki Japanese Harmony Master’s Select is a blend of 10 malt and grain whiskies which have been aged in five different casks and bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof]. Hibiki Japanese Harmony Master’s Select will be available for $80 per 700-ml bottle in November […]
The World’s Most Interesting Man On Masquerade Parties And Vampires
With Halloween approaching quicker than you can say sexy post office worker costume, Dos Equis’ World’s Most Interesting Man weighs in on two subjects – masquerade parties and vampires…
Budweiser Gives You a New Bud-E [Fridge]
Budweiser is tired of waiting for you to decide when you need more of its beer so they launched their new refrigerator – the Bud-E Fridge – which tells them when your beer supply is getting too low by game time…
GlenDronach Releases Whisky From Batch 12
GlenDroanch Distillery has released its whisky from its 12th batch of single cask bottlings – in this case, nine whiskies ranging in age from 11 to 43 years – including the highlight of the batch, a 43-year-old whisky with chocolate and nutty notes. The complete contents of GlenDronach’s Batch 12 are as follows… • 1972 cask # 706 / 43-years-old / 51.1% alcohol content . • 1990 cask # 1375 […]
Glenmorangie Offers A Midwinter’s Night’s Dram In The UK
Glenmorangie has released a limited edition Highland single malt Scotch whisky, A Midwinter Night’s Dram. Glenmorangie A Midwinter Night’s Dram is aged in both ex-bourbon American oak casks along with ex-Oloroso sherry casks to produce notes of almond, citrus and vanilla with a spicy finish. Glenmorangie A Midwinter Night’s Dram is bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof] and is available for $60 per 700-ml bottle in the UK beginning […]
Rogue Glows In The Dark For Halloween
Newport, Oregon-based Rogue Ales and Spirits is releasing special glow-in-the-dark bottles of their beer and whiskey for the upcoming Halloween holiday. Bottles of Dead Guy Ale and Dead Guy Whiskey will both be the recipients of the glow-in-the-dark process. 22-ounce bottles and 64-ounce growlers of Dead Guy Ale will receive the glow-in-the-dark treatment along with the 750-ml Dead Guy Whiskey bottles.
Johnnie Walker Releases Select Casks – Rye Cask Finish
Johnnie Walker has released Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish, a blended Scotch whiskey bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof]. Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish is a blend of whiskies aged at least 10 years in first-fill American oak casks and finished in ex-rye whiskey casks to produce notes of vanilla with a spicy finish. Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish is available for $45 […]
Laphroaig Releases 32-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky
Islay distiller, Laphroaig, has released a 32-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky to celebrate their 200th birthday year. Laphroaig 32-Year-Old was aged in first-fill former Oloroso sherry casks and is said to have notes of chocolate, fruit, nuts and spices. Laphroaig 32-Year-Old will retail for $1140 per bottle beginning in October 2015.
Whiskey Specialists Submit Themselves To Cheap Whiskey
Whiskey specialists Rick Edwards and Kat Aagensen submitted to being tortured by cheap whiskies in agreeing to sit down and work their way through five cheap whiskies in this BuzzFeed video. The cheap whiskies they were tortured with were Wild Turkey, Jim Beam, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, Evan Williams and, of course, Fireball – with mostly predictable results…
Finland’s Teerenpeli Distillery Will Release Single Malt Whisky
Finland’s Teerenpeli Distillery will release a 10-Year-Old single malt whisky – made from local barley, glacial water and Finnish peat – and bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof]. Teerenpeli 10-Year-Old Whisky was aged in both ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks. Fittingly, Teerenpeli will launch on the 10th day of the 10th month – October 10, 2015.
Asahi Launches Wild Moose In Australia
Australia, which hasn’t seen a wild moose ever, is about to get their first glimpse at many of them when Asahi launches Wild Moose – their ginger-and-lime flavored canned whiskey drink with 4.8% alcohol content. Wild Moose will be unleashed on Australia beginning in October 2015.
Heineken Leads The Chase
Heineken continues its relationship with the world’s superspy, James Bond, in this latest commercial tying itself to the 007 franchise…
Compass Box Releases This Is Not A Luxury Whisky
Compass Box has released This Is Not A Luxury Whisky – the blended Scotch whisky with the funny name is based on the famous Treachery of Images painting by Rene Magritte entitled “This is not a pipe” – and is a blend of 19-Year-Old Glen Ord malt, 30-Year-Old Caol Ila and 40-Year-Old grain whisky from Girvan and Strathclyde. This Is Not A Luxury Whisky is bottled at 53% alcohol content […]
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