Glen Grant Reveals Spendy Single Malt
Not having anything to do whatsoever with the impending St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, Speyside’s Glen Grant Distillery has released a 65-year-old single malt whisky as the inaugural release in their Splendours Collection, named after the distillery’s Garden of Splendours and the 65-year-old specifically celebrates the garden’s Himalayan blue poppy. Glen Grant Splendours 65 Years Old […]
Guinness Counts The Days To St. Patrick’s Day
Guinness is in the midst of their “40 Days of Guinness Giveaways” – in which they feature a different prize every day [such as a trip to the new Open Gate Brewery in London] on the way to St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2025. As St. Patrick’s Day draws closer, Guinness will be making […]
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Diageo Rolls Out Orphan Barrel
UK-based Diageo – the world’s largest producer of spirits – has decided to vigorously enter the North American craft whiskey market by creating their Orphan Barrel Distillery and introducing the new distillery’s first two products, 20-year-old Barterhouse Whiskey and 27-year-old Old Blowhard whiskey. Both whiskey stocks were discovered in a Diageo-owned facility in Louisville, Kentucky, and each will enjoy a limited release. The new whiskies will be bottled at the […]
Beer Bracket Madness
March Madness is a mere month away from its annual craziness but beer lovers – particularly those residing in the state of Pennsylvania around the city of Harrisburg – will be able to begin filling out their beer brackets early with their Beer Brackets challenge pitting craft brews against big brands against anything you can think of that can fit in its brackets [that is, a beer that is readily […]
Whiskey Picker? There’s An App For That
If you are a whiskey newbie or merely find yourself embroiled in a temporary brain fart, you might require some assistance in selecting your choice of fragrant brown liquid for the evening and choose to consult your smartphone where you will find the new Distiller app. The app has been designed to help you escape your fog by asking a few questions and then assisting in your selection process for […]
A Hardy Contracts Spring Fever With Lalique Decanter
A Hardy France is looking forward to spring with a limited production of new Lalique crystal decanters filled with Grande Champagne cognac. Designed to resemble a perfume bottle, the decanter has been titled Printemps [“spring” in French] and is the first in a series of four releases spaced out over two-year intervals which will each be named after a season [summer, autumn and winter]. The Grande Champagne cognac [40% alcohol […]
Super Bowl Won, Marshawn Lynch Wants Him Some Fireball
With the Denver Broncos imploding from Play One of the Super Bowl last week, it did not take going into Beast mode or even much effort, really, from Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch as the Seahawks coasted to a 43-8 victory. With loads of energy remaining in the reserve tank, what Lynch really wants now is for a fan at the victory parade to fork over some of his fancy-schmancy […]
Jameson Releases Special St. Patrick’s Day Bottle
St. Patrick’s Day is still more than a month away but who wants to wait that long to begin the celebration? Certainly not Irish whiskey maker, Jameson – who have announced the release of a specially-designed bottle for the festivities on March 17. The limited edition Jameson bottle was designed by Irish illustrator Dermot Flynn and incorporates Dublin’s Stag’s Head Pub on the label as well as famed Irish poet […]
Adelphi Single Cask Collection Coming To America
The Adelphi Single Cask Scotch Whisky collection will be making its American debut this year. The collection of super-premium single malt whiskies from some of Scotland’s most hallowed distilleries will be released four times per year beginning this year. The first Adelphi Single Cask release does not have a date but will include Highland Park 14-Year-Old [$170], Bunnahabhain 21-Year-Old [$220], Glen Grant 23-Year-Old [$285] and BenRiach 32-Year-Old [$475].
Bell’s Scotch Whisky Ad That Should Have Been In The Super Bowl
South African Scotch whisky brand Bell’s has an ad that should have run in the Super Bowl – and we are thinking it would have beaten out the vast majority of the ones that did – about an elderly man who learns how to read and if that wasn’t reward enough, gets some whisky to boot!
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 […]
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