Crown Royal Redesigns Reserve Blend into 12YO Whisky
Crown Royal has revamped its Reserve bottling, which now comes with an age statement. The Canadian whisky has revamped its Reserve recipe and redesigned its bottle. “Crown Royal Reserve Aged 12 Years stays true to the tradition of the original Crown Royal Reserve offering while elevating the flavor profile with more pronounced fruity notes,” master […]
Living Souls Joins Whisky Market with 40YO Blend
Living Souls is a new distillery specializing in small batch and single cask releases. The brand’s first collection, Batch No 1, introduces four whiskies and sets a new standard for quality and craftsmanship. Jamie Williamson, whose whisky industry experience spans 15 years, said: “Our main goal with Batch No 1 was to create a range […]
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Camus Coming Your Way
There were only 990 bottles of Camus 1983 Fins Bois cognac produced and it is officially part of the House of Camus’ Rarissimes range – reserved for those cognacs distinguished as a rare or unusual cognac. In this case, the 1983 harvest which originally giving birth to the Fins Bois was marked by a hot summer preceded by heavy hailstorms, producing the nutmeg nose as well as fruit, spice and […]
Tennent’s Sponsor A Whisky And Beer Party In A Bottle
You like whisky, you like beer, so the natural logic would be that a combination of these two fine liquids might be something you would also like, right? Maybe. Maybe not. But Tennent’s is going to go ahead and give it a shot with their Whisky Oak beer – a 6.2% alcohol whisky-flavored beer that is hoping to capture the interest of those who like both the malted barley and […]
Highland Park Adds Love To The Valhalla Collection
With Thor and Loki already in the house, Highland Park added the third of its intended four-whisky, Norse god-themed Valhalla Collection with Freya, a 51.2% alcohol content [102.4 proof] whisky that HP is expecting people to fall in love with – being that it is named after the Norse goddess of love. Freya is a 15-year-old whisky said to have a white chocolate nose with tropical fruit and smoky finishes. […]
London Hotel Has Coutanseaux 1767 – The Super Bowl Of Cognac
After you are done dropping a couple hundred sampling the Michter’s Sour Mash in Florida, you might want to step up to the big boy table for a sampling of the world’s oldest available cognac – Coutanseaux 1767 – at the Wellesley Hotel in London. The hotel purchased the 70 cl bottle of rare cognac from a French collector last year and is making the liquid gold available to its […]
Fancy A Shot Of Michter’s Sour Mash? Head To St. Petersburg
There were only 273 bottles – each bottle costing $5000 – of Michter’s celebration Sour Mash Whiskey ever produced. That’s not quite in The Macallan “M” in a Roman emperor-nicknamed Lalique decanter territory but it is pretty spendy for a sour mash and you’ll be hard-pressed to find some – unless you find yourself at the Cask and Ale in St. Petersburg, Florida…
Hoellinger Back At Glenmorangie
After a short stint with parent company Moet Hennessy, Marc Hoellinger is back – this time as chief executive – at Glenmorangie Distillery. Why is this important to you as a whisky drinker? Because it was Hoellinger, in his role as marketing director at Glenmorangie from 2008-11, who oversaw the distillery’s rapid growth in the American market, particularly for the namesake Glenmorangie Scotch whisky label. Hoellinger has spent the last […]
Louisiana Brings LA1 To The Table
Louisiana is known for spicing things up and now the state has spiced up the American whiskey market by producing its first legal barrel-aged whiskey ever – LA1 – from the Donner-Peltier distillery in Thibodaux. LA1 is unique in originating from Louisiana but is also unique as a four-grain whiskey, tossing rice – locally-produced rice – into the mix along with the standard barley, corn and rye [or wheat]. LA1 […]
Mila Kunis About To Make History With Jim Beam
Do you like Jim Beam? Do you like Mila Kunis? Maybe not in that order? Well then, as the professor in “Futurama” would say – “good news everyone!” – Mila Kunis is all set to become the official spokeswoman of the famous Bourbon brand now owned by Japanese spirits company, Suntory, who purchased Beam earlier this month for $13.6 billion. Kunis went to the Clermont, Kentucky home of Beam this […]
Johnnie Walker’s Odyssey
Johnnie Walker has a new Scotch whisky called Odyssey, but don’t take our word for it, let Johnnie Walker’s Global Scotch Whisky Ambassador [don’t you wish you had that job?] tell you all about it.
Newcastle Brown Ale’s Super Bowl Ad
Newcastle Brown Ale would like to show you their swanky, sexy Super Bowl ad designed to sell thousands of beers – but alas, they can’t – because Budweiser has a deal with the NFL and that deal prevents any other beer company from running an ad during the big game as well as even saying the words “super” and “bowl” in conjunction with their beer. So if you want to […]
Jay Z’s New Comador – She’s A Brick House
Jay Z is in cahoots with Cohiba to produce the Comador, a premium cigar composed of leaves from five countries – Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and the USA and not Cuba – the Comador’s creation process is showcased here. A box of 14 Comadors with humidor will cost you $999 while a non-humidor set of seven Comadors will run you in the neighborhood of $210…
Miller Has A Fortune
One of the new beers on the American block in 2014 comes from Miller and is called the Miller Fortune. Encased in a jet black bottle designed to look like a bottle of vodka but evoke an image of a guy in a business suit or a fit athlete, the new beer is a golden lager brewed with cascade hops and caramel malt to give it a stronger citrus-y bitter […]
Glengoyne Whisky Released From Captivity
After waiting around 25 years maturing in 100% first-fill European oak sherry casks, Glengoyne finally relinquished some of its single malt whisky for the world. Using the unique method of drying their malted barley only with warm air – to persuade subtle flavors from the barley – Glengoyne whisky process takes longer from start to finish than most other single malts and generally results in toffee and spice palates. Glengoyne […]
Cocktail Bottles Of Joy
What if you went to your favorite bar and wanted to take your drink home with you – but in a responsible and feasible way? Aside from purchasing an entire bottle of alcohol and mixers – which may or may not be practical, depending upon the circumstances – there is now the, albeit limited, opportunity to take your bottled cocktail drink with you. Some restaurants bars – mostly high-end establishments […]
Creek Becomes River In Oregon
In the wake of the whisky world-altering purchase of Jim Beam by Suntory, everything is small in comparison but Hood River Distillery’s purchase of Clear Creek Distillery brings together McCarthy’s Single Malt of Clear Creek with the popular Pendleton brand owned by Hood River Popular and puts their production all under the same roof. Terms were not disclosed in Hood River Distillery’s purchase of Clear Creek Distillery but we can […]
Iceland Produces Whale Beer For True Vikings
Steoji, an Icelandic brewery, has teamed up with Hvalur, an Icelandic whaling company, to produce a beer containing whale meal – the heated then dried up remnants of dead whales – which they say, once imbibed, makes the beer drinker “true Vikings”. The “true Viking” beer is not that strong – only 5.2% alcohol content – but has no sugar and is said to be low-fat and high protein due […]
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