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 […]
Michter’s Hauls Out 20-Year-Old Bourbon
Louisville, Kentucky-based Michter’s Distillery is releasing Michter’s 20 Year – a re-release of their 20-year-old bourbon. The 2024 release of Michter’s 20 Year is bottled at 57.1% alcohol by volume [114.8 proof]. The 2024 release of Michter’s 20 Year is being made available for $1,200 per bottle.
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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 […]
Two New Beers To Consider For St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner – only a mere two weeks away – and that means it might be a good idea to start narrowing down your beer choices for the big night. Well Salt Lake City-based Squatter’s Craft beer is way ahead of you and they have released a pair of beers before the big occasion – Takeout Rye IPA and the possibly more appropriate Wellied […]
Becks Launches Haig Club
English footballer-turned-whisky investor David Beckham has officially launched his single grain Scotch whisky Haig Club…
Second Cu Bocan In Cask Series Released
Tomatin Distillery has released the second of their three Cu Bocan single malt Scotch whiskies using different cask types. The first Cu Bocan release used a sherry cask and the most recent release is Cu Bocan from a virgin oak cask. The lightly peated single malt combined with the virgin oak cask imbues the resulting 46% alcohol content [92 proof] liquid with smoky spice notes. Only 6000 bottles of Cu […]
Somersby Adds Three New Cider Flavors
UK cider brand, Somersby, has added three new flavors to their portfolio – Apple Burst, Blackberry and Cranberry. Apple Burst is a sweeter version of its Somersby Original and comes in at 4.5% alcohol content while both Blackberry and Cranberry provide a 4% alcohol content kick. All three of the new Somersby cider flavors will be offered in the UK beginning in March 2015.
Tomatin Goes Full Cask Strength
Tomatin has added a cask strength edition to its Highland single malt Scotch whisky lineup. Tomatin Cask Strength Edition was matured in former Bourbon and Oloroso sherry casks before being bottled at 57.5% alcohol content [115 proof] to produce spice and sweet notes. 15,000 bottles of Tomatin Cask Strength Edition have been released worldwide – with the exception of the USA – at a cost of $70 per bottle.
Portland Leading National Cider Boom
A mere five years ago, the only places you could get cider on an easily accessible basis in North America were Canada and, well, Canada. That all changed in 2011 when several cideries [as opposed to breweries] began their high profile march into national prominence. Ciders have long been staples in the proper English-speaking Commonwealth nations but due to Prohibition and lack of traditional cider apples, its growth in the […]
Steak And Whisky Opens in LA
A new restaurant called, simply, Steak and Whisky, has opened in the beach community of Hermosa Beach near Los Angeles [see link below]. The 50-seat restaurant features a large whisky collection – though primarily focusing on Japanese whiskies – as well as many signature steaks such as porterhouse, rib-eye and Wagyu. Customers can rent whisky lockers to store their favorite whiskies for their next visit to Steak and Whisky. Source: […]
Smart Whisky Set To Challenge Consumers
Johnnie Walker has created the first so-called “smart whisky”, a whisky embossed with electronic stickers which will respond to smartphones and allow the manufacturer to send targeted communications [i.e. ads] to the consumer’s smartphone. Diageo, the spirits giant behind Johnnie Walker will debut the new technology on their Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label To Bring Out Cities Collection
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is following up their popular skyline Collection of 2013 with a Cities Collection that will feature recognizable landmarks of various cities on their labels as designed by artist Jeff Nishinaka. The first city to get the treatment will be Dubai. A limited bottling of 1500 bottles of the Dubai Edition of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities Collection will be produced and made available for $258 per […]
Annandale Distillery Puts Its First Cask On The Block For $1.54 Million
The newly reborn Annandale Distillery in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, has put their first cask of whisky – which was filled on November 15 last year – up for sale for a whopping $1.54 million. Cask No.1 is dubbed “Man o’ Words” in reference to the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who has strong heritage in the whisky industry, and the whisky is said to have fruit and peaty notes. The Annandale Distillery […]
The Macallan Reveals 1824 Master Series
The Macallan has released a pair of blended whiskies to its 1824 Master Series – Macallan Reflexion and Macallan No. 6 – both encased in Lalique crystal decanters. The Macallan Reflexion emerges from first fill sherry-seasoned oak casks and later matures in hogshead casks before being bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof] and emitting notes of apple, apricot and vanilla. The Macallan No. 6 is also bottled at 43% […]
Mortlach Special Strength Single Malt Released
A limited edition of Mortlach Special Strength single malt Scotch whisky has been released upon a suspecting public. Typically used as a blending whisky, Mortlach has finally allowed their single malt to stand alone, bottled at 49% alcohol content [98 proof] and featuring vanilla notes. Mortlach Special Strength single malt Scotch whisky is available at travel retail outlets for $120 per bottle in March 2015.
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