Heaven Hill Rolls Out Chinquapin Barrels
Kentucky-based Heaven Hill Distillery is rolling out the Chinquapin barrels as they release a trio of whiskies in their Grain to Glass Specialty Barrel Series matured in barrels made of the distinctive American white oak species that are native to Central and Eastern North America. The inaugural Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Specialty Barrel Series […]
Kilchoman Unveils Full Fledged Islay Sherry Cask
Kilchoman has released Kilchoman 100% Islay Sherry Cask Matured – an 11-year-old single malt whisky originating from 100% Islay-grown barley and subsequently matured in a sherry cask. More specifically, Kilchoman 100% Islay Sherry Cask Matured were matured in Oloroso sherry casks, bottled at 50% alcohol by volume [100 proof] and is said to impart notes […]
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Two New Distilleries In The Works
Two new whisky distilleries – one for Macallan and one for Teeling – are in the works. The Teeling Whiskey Distillery will be located in downtown Dublin, Ireland, and be a pot still distillery with the capability of producing 500,000 liters of Irish whiskey per year. Meanwhile, the new Macallan distillery will be built from the ground up near the River Spey in Scotland and produce Scotch whisky. The Teeling […]
It’s the Golden Age Of Cider In California
The state of California has officially jumped onto the cider bandwagon – or at least Devoto Orchards in Sonoma has – with the launching of 6.9% alcohol content Golden State Cider. The medium dry cider is made from West Coast USA apples only and no additives. Golden State Cider is currently available in California in bottles but will also be available in cans in September 2014.
Distillery Launches Whiskey For Seattle Seahawks Fans
Blue Flame Spirits, a distillery based in Washington state, has developed a series of spirits called 12 Spirits designed exclusively toward fans of the Seattle Seahawks, winners of the most recent Super Bowl, who have touted some of their success as coming from the franchise’s so-called “12th man” [the fans] on the field. The 12 Spirits whiskey is a wheat whiskey with the wheat coming specifically from wheat grown in […]
Explorer’s Club, The Club, Wins Battle Against Explorer’s Club, The Whisky
Up until last week, The Explorer’s Club was both an actual club as well as an actual whisky. But that was last week and before lawyers got involved. Seems as though The Explorer’s Club, the club, did not cotton to being associated with the Explorer’s Club, the whisky – no matter how high-falutin’ that conceptual connection might be – and brought a court injunction to prevent Diageo, the company owning […]
Ballantine’s Pines Whisky Emoji
Beer, cocktails and wine all have emoji symbols for smartphones associated with them but Ballantine’s Whisky thinks whisky should have its specific emoji and not be lumped in with cocktails [which usually has a martini glass symbol]. So they have decided to do something about it and have created a campaign – with the hashtag #WhiskyEmoji – on social media channels Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to make their case. Ballantine’s […]
Bonhams Hong Kong Offering Full Deck Of Rare Whisky
Bonhams Hong Kong will be hosting the largest Asian whisky auction later this month when they auction off more than 200 of rare and collectible Asian whisky in The Rare Single Malt Whisky Auction. Among the items up for bid on the block include the Karuizawa 21-Year-Old in a crystal decanter along with Karuizawa Geisha Series and non-distilled years of the distillery which shut down in 2001. Alongside the Karuizawa […]
Sharknado 2: The Drinking Game
Now that “Sharknado 2: The Second One” is firmly entrenched in your memories, it’s time to watch it again over the weekend – only this time with the benefit of some liquor lubricant in the form of your favorite whisky [or other beverage, WC are not dictators]. The only way to watch Sharknado 2 again – properly – is via a sophisticated drinking game and that’s where WC comes in […]
Laphroaig Select Released
Laphroaig Select is set to hit the market as the newest expression from the fabled distillery. Laphroaig Select began life in European oak casks before moving to ex-bourbon American oak casks for the final maturation process to give the Islay single malt Scotch whisky a taste of both peat and sweet. Laphroaig Select will retail for $55 per bottle and is currently available in the USA, UK, Germany and Italy […]
Isle Of Arran Deploys The Fiendish Finale
The Isle of Arran Distillery is releasing the final single malt whisky in their Devil’s Punch Bowl trilogy of devilishly-titled single malts. Joining the first two single malts – Devil’s Punch Bowl [2012] and Devil’s Punch Bowl II [2013] – will be Devil’s Punch Bowl III, The Fiendish Finale. Devil number three is matured in Oloroso sherry butts as well as French Barrique casks and bottled at 53.4% alcohol content […]
Budweiser Launches Made For Music Search
Budweiser is searching for the busker band of busker bands to perform at their Budweiser Made in America Music Festival on August 30, 2014 in Los Angeles and have issued a challenge to busker bands in four cities – London, New York, Philadelphia and Rio de Janeiro – to compose a sort of all-star busker band, and…oh yeah, promote their product.
The Perfect Summer Treat: Whiskey Shave Ice
Summer is not normally considered to be whiskey’s best season but there is always room for growth and they found that room at the Soradoko rooftop whiskey garden in Kyoto, Japan. At the Soradoko, their specialties are whiskey highballs but this summer they have added the whiskey shave ice as a special summertime treat for adults visiting their rooftop whiskey paradise. Soradoko uses primarily Yamazaki or Shirasu whiskey for its […]
Glenglassaugh Bringing Five Whiskies To America
Glenglassaugh Distillery will be bringing five of its single malt whiskies to the USA – Revival, Evolution, Torfa [Peated] and both Glenglassaugh 30-Year-Old and Glenglassaugh 40-Year-Old. The descriptions of each are as follows… REVIVAL The Glenglassaugh ‘Revival’ is matured in combination of red wine casks and ex-bourbon barrels, finished in first-fill Oloroso sherry butts for a period of six months. Non-chill filtered and of natural color, a Highland Single Malt […]
Heineken Enlists Fred Armisen To Promote Beer While Calling A Pay Phone
Heineken paid Fred Armisen a boatload of cash for the simple act of calling a pay phone situated across the street from New York City’s Comedy Cellar comedy club and then trying to entice whoever answered the phone to come over to the club. Not surprisingly, many people would not even pick up the randomly ringing phone and even fewer could be coerced by Armisen to come across the street. […]
Aspall Debuts New Bottle For Six Ciders
Aspall Cider used to come in giant nearly wine-bottle sizes for their various ciders – it was an element of design which set them apart from other ciders in stubbier bottles – but the aspect that set them apart also provided a problem for storage as the bottles were too tall to be properly shown in display cases and forced into a lying down position which hid the label. That […]
Cotswolds Distillery Pre-Selling Organic Odyssey For 2017
Cotswolds Distillery in the UK will not be bottling their 2013 Organic Odyssey single malt whisky for another three years but that isn’t stopping them from offering the first-ever Cotswolds-sourced whisky to people a few years early. The distillery has set aside 5000 bottles of the whisky for purchase when it is ready to be bottled in October 2017 [Cotswolds will be producing the batch in September and October of […]
Kininvie Launches 17-Year-Old In Taiwan
Kininvie 17-Year-Old old batch no.1, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky, has been released specifically for the travel retail market in Taiwan. The whisky, which has been aged for 80% of the time in American oak barrels and 20% of the time in sherry casks, boasts a 42.6% alcohol content [85.2 proof] and the fruity aroma of typical Speyside whiskies. For the time being, Kininvie 17-Year-Old old batch no. 1 […]
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