Maker’s Mark Unleashes The Keeper’s Release
Maker’s Mark Bourbon has released The Keeper’s Release – the latest installment in their Wood Finishing Series, a collection begun in 2019 that showcases bourbons using a unique wood stave-finishing technique. Maker’s Mark The Keepers Release was matured for more than six years in hand-rotated barrels, bottled at 54.6% alcohol by volume [109.2 proof] and […]
Kavalan Debuts Lan For The Rest Of The World
Taiwan-based Kavalan Distillery has released Lan, their first whisky created specifically with the rest of the world in mind, as it will be destined for the export market. Kavalan Lán is so named as a nod to Yilan County in northeastern Taiwan where the Kavalan Distillery was born in 2005 and where they released their […]
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Thatchers Cider Planning USA Invasion
The British are coming! The British are coming! UK-based Thatchers Cider are coming to USA supermarket shelves this year. The UK-cidermaker has already shipped its 4.8% alcohol content Thatchers Gold cider to American shores this month and has plans to send over other varieties at later dates. Thatchers Cider will be available for $4 for a 500ml bottle or $9 for a 330ml four-pack with kegged cider to be available […]
Buffalo Trace Sending Whiskey Across The Pond
Kentucky-based Buffalo Trace Distillery is sending its five-bottle 2014 Antique Collection of whiskey across the pond to be made available in the UK. The 2014 Buffalo Trace Antique collection consists of…. George T. Stagg: The 2013 release of this uncut and unfiltered bourbon received the Chairman’s Trophy at the 2014 Ultimate Spirits Challenge in New York. William Larue Weller: The Antique Collection’s uncut, unfiltered, wheated recipe bourbon was distilled in […]
Rare Whisky Up On The Block
A pair of ultra-rare whiskies – Macallan 62-Year-Old and Mortlach 70-Year-Old – will be put up on the block at the upcoming Bonhams whisky sale next month in Scotland. Housed in a Lalique crystal decanter, the Macallan 62 was bottled on November 10, 1950 at 53.1% alcohol content [106.2 proof] and is Number 200 of a limited edition bottling of 400. Notes of fruit, ginger and cigar leaf are said […]
Tomatin Releases Five Sherry-Casked Whiskies
Tomatin Distillery has launched five sherry-casked whiskies in its Highland Single Malt lines. The Tomatin Cuatro Series features four of the sherry-casked whiskies – Fino, Oloroso, manzanilla and Pedro Ximenez – in which each whisky was aged for nine years in American oak casks before being divvied up into four lots according to their sherry type of maturation and then matured three more years in the sherry casks. In addition, […]
BrewDog Launches This. Is. Lager.
The BrewDog brewery has deemed there to be some lager confusion in the world today and in an attempt to clarify the situation, has produced a new product with the very clear name of This.Is.Lager. The new lager has 4.7% alcohol content and is brewed with 100% malt and “10 times the hops” [claims BrewDog] of typical mass-produced lagers on the market today. BrewDog’s This.Is.Lager. is currently available in the […]
The Balvenie Releases Twin 50’s
The Balvenie has trotted out twin 50-Year-Old Scotch whiskies but you better bring a big wallet if you want a taste of this elderly liquor liberated from Cask 4567 and 4570 in The Balvenie Distillery’s famous Warehouse 24, which houses The Balvenie’s rarest whiskies. Both whiskies were put into European oak hogshead casks in May 1963 at 45.4% alcohol content [90.8 proof] for the Cask 4567 and 45.9% [91.8 proof] […]
Drambuie Sold To William Grant & Sons
Whisky liqueur Drambuie has been sold to whisky distiller William Grant & Sons for approximately $160 million. Drambuie is a whisky liqueur with a recipe blend consisting of aged Scotch whisky, heather honey and various spices that was originally created in 1745 and passed along to the MacKinnon family in 1914 before the family sold it to William Grant & Sons. William Grant & Sons own the Glenfiddich and The […]
Groundskeeper Willie On Scottish Independence
Scotland has its whisky to protect when it votes for independence on September 18, 2014 – and who better to protect it than Groundskeeper Willie from “The Simpsons”?
Just In Time For Halloween – Pumpkin Spice Whiskey
The Rhode island-based Sons of Liberty Distillery has released its Pumpkin Spice-Flavored Whiskey upon the masses. The whiskey production will be exponentially larger this year than in 2013 when a mere 4000 lbs. of pumpkins were processed and mixed with single malt for the seasonal whiskey. In 2014, more than 30,000 lbs. of pumpkins were processed for the whiskey. Sons of Liberty Pumpkin Spice-Flavored Whiskey is available primarily in the […]
Kopparberg Gets Spicy
Kopparberg is getting spicy with the introduction of their new Spiced Apple Cider. The cider was spiced with cinnamon and can be consumed cold as a late summer drink or warmed up for a seasonal cool autumn evening relaxer. Kopparberg Spiced Apple Cider is 4% alcohol content and will be available for $4 per bottle in October 2014.
Innis & Gunn Brings Out Rare Oak Pale Ale
Edinburgh brewery Innis & Gunn has brought out their seasonal Rare Oak Pale Ale. At 5.8% alcohol content, the ale was created using ingredients native to Scotland, including Scottish oak and sweet gale. Innis & Gunn Rare Oak Pale Ale is available in the UK for $3 per bottle.
anCnoc Releases The Cutter
There’s a new Highland Scotch whisky on the block and its name is anCnoc Cutter. The malty, peaty whisky boasts a 46% alcohol content [92 proof] is the most peated whisky of anCnoc’s whiskies. anCnoc will make 2000 cases of Cutter available online for $85 per bottle.
Limited Edition Elijah Craig Emerges
A Limited Edition Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old single barrel Kentucky straight Bourbon whiskey has been released upon the masses. The Bourbon, aged in a newly charred white oak barrel, has the traditional 45% alcohol content [90 proof] and is drawn from middle floor rickhouses at the Heaven Hills Distillery. A 750-ml bottle of Limited Edition Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old will retail for $200 and be available only in major metropolitan markets.
Jack Daniel’s Debuts Bar Stories
Everybody has a story but the stories told in bars are usually the best since they’re usually accompanied by liquor and just enough embellishment to make it entertaining rather than boring. Jack Daniel’s volunteers to play the role of whiskey in these stories…and their new ad campaign…
Templeton Rye To Change Tune
After initially marketing itself as a small batch whisky distilled in Iowa and sourced from a Prohibition era recipe, the makers of Templeton Rye are changing their tune and admitting that the liquor is actually distilled in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, before being sent to be blended, bottled and shipped from Templeton. Additionally, the source recipe will be clarified on its label as Prohibition Era recipes would not be allowed under current […]
Johnnie Walker Opens Diamond Jubilee In Australia
As part of an event showcasing its Scotch whisky, Johnnie Walker opened up a bottle of its Johnnie Walker Diamond Jubilee single malt Scotch whisky at an event in Sydney, Australia. Only 60 bottles of the Diamond Jubilee were created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. The whisky was reported to have a nose of fruit and spicy wood with a palate of fruit, smoke, […]
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