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 […]
Bushmills Brings Out 46-Year-Old Single Malt In Time For St. Patrick’s Day
If you would like to put your Jameson-swilling brethren to shame on St. Patrick’s Day – March 17, 2025 – then Bushmills Distillery has the answer for you, releasing their oldest-ever Irish single malt whiskey, the Bushmills 46 Year Old ‘Secrets of the River Bush’. Bushmills 46-Year-Old “Secrets of the River Bush” is so named […]
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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 […]
Out Of The Irish Mist Comes Whiskey
The newest kid on the honeyed whiskey liqueur block is not a liqueur but a whiskey – Irish Mist Whiskey. The new 80 proof [40% alcohol content] whiskey is a blend of four-year-old whiskies that have been triple-distilled and aged in American oak casks, said to deliver aromas ranging from vanilla to raisin to pear and spice to accompany the honey and toffee palate. Irish Mist Whiskey will be available […]
Some John Barleycorn Whisky With Your Haggis On Burns Night?
If you reside in Scotland, portions of Ireland, UK or New Zealand, chances are you have already planned your Burns Night activities when you will be employing the whisky and haggis ploy as a means to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns. If, by chance, you haven’t procured your whisky of choice yet, then the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has you in mind when they announced the release of an 11-year-old […]
Scot Rockers Get Their Own Whisky-A-Go-Go
It used to be just getting a recording deal with a major studio was a big deal but now, apparently, you have to do a bit more to make yourself known in the musical industry and Scottish rockers, Mogwai, have done just that – getting their own whisky. The new RockAct81W Scotch Whisky is a 114.2 proof [57.1% alcohol content] single cask, nine-year-old from the Glenallachie Distillery in Speyside, Scotland. […]
Martell Millesimes Is Asia-Bound
If you play polo or fancy cognac, then Asia is where you want to be right now. Just a few days after the announcement by Pernod that a special batch of blended Scotch whisky will be made available for Asian markets comes news that a special cognac – Martell Millesimes 1971 – will be made available for Asian markets as well. The MM71 was created using three of the rarest […]
Pernod Whips Up The Polo Batch
Polo is recognized as “the sport of kings” and apparently the sport is missing a suitably royal blended Scotch Whisky, so Pernod Ricard took the liberty of mixing up a special batch to enjoy when the ponies are polo-ing about the field – they call it Royal Salute: The Polo Batch – and it’s a 21-year-old blend. Because polo is big in Asia, Royal Salute: The Polo Batch will only […]
Constantine Attracts Big Money
As expected, people threw big money at Constantine and after the flurry of money was over – Constantine went for $631,850 to the highest bidder [and no, we don’t imply the usage of marijuana]. Constantine, as you may recall from WC’s article a little over a week ago, is the name of one of the largest ever crystal decanters containing Macallan whisky. Only four six-liter crystal decanters of this size […]
Aarrrgh – New Blended Scotch Whisky Dunadd
Although the actual Castle Aaarrrggghhh from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was the much newer [13th century] Doune Castle – it bears a spittin’ image to Dunadd Castle [first century], the castle depicted on the label of Dunadd, the newest blended Scotch Whisky brand emerging from Scotland. Dunadd is named for the medieval site where Scottish kings were likely crowned and the new blended whiskies will be a three-year-old […]
Fill Up With TinCup
Distiller Jess Graber was enjoying success with his master creation, Stranahan’s Whiskey, but then one day he mixed corn, rye and malt with pure Rocky Mountain water and – voila! – TinCup American Whiskey was born. The whiskey is said to carry aromas of citrus, black pepper and ginger snaps along with palate notes of rye spice, cinnamon and caramel. TinCup American Whiskey will be available in Arizona, California, Colorado, […]
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