Kavalan Unveils Grand Reserve Whiskies
Taiwan-based Kavalan Distillery has released a pair of new whiskies – Kavalan Grand Reserve No.1 and Kavalan Grand Reserve No.2 – but both will only be available in Lotte Duty Free travel retail venues. Both Kavalan Grand Reserve whiskies were initially aged in shaved, toasted and re-charred Vinho wine casks as well as being bottled […]
New Look Budweiser Clydesdales Set To Join Eagles And Chiefs In Super Bowl
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are set for Super Bowl LIX on February 9, 2025, and they will be joined by the new-look Budweiser Clydesdales. Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch announced several of their brands will air commercial spots during the big game – including Michelob Ultra, Busch Light, Bud Light, Stella Artois and, of […]
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Arts And Crafts
Twenty years ago – has it been that long already? – the big beer giants of the world were knocked on their collective asses by what started out small and what would be destined to become all the rage – the now much-ballyhooed craft beer brewery [or microbrewery, if you so desire] movement. The popularity of home-brewing in the 1980s turned thousands of people – mostly males who didn’t have […]
Maker’s Mark Madness For Louisville
Back in April, the University of Louisville Cardinal defeated Michigan 74-68 and won the 2013 version of March Madness – the NCAA national championship – and the accolades and tributes began pouring in and have yet to stop as it was announced earlier this month that famed Kentucky bourbon label Maker’s Mark will make Louisville Cardinal head coach Rick Pitino the honoree of a special limited bottling of Maker’s Mark […]
Nectar of the Gods – Sinatra Select – Availability Increases
Frank Sinatra had a sponsorship contract with Chivas scotch in the latter portions of his long and famous entertainment career – but it was a flask of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 – which he referred to as “nectar of the gods” – with which he was buried when he passed away 15 years ago. Although Sinatra was never an official spokesman of the brand, he was a hefty unofficial […]
Manhattan Rolls Out The Red Carpet For Cocktails
If you can’t get to Tucson for BaconFest, there’s always Manhattan for the fifth annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic. It’s too late for tickets to the main events but there’s still time to snag tickets to the first two sessions of Mandarine Napoleon’s Double Buzz: Coffee and Cocktails as well as sessions in schnapps, mescal and lemon vodka. But what about the whisky, you cry? Well, as can be expected, all […]
Bacon Cures All That Ails Ya
Whether it’s strangling some grilled asparagus or has wrapped itself around hot dogs or scallops or embedded itself in meat loaf or brownies or simply adorned itself atop some maple bars, bacon is one of life’s greatest guilty pleasures. Yeah, sure, we know consuming pounds of it will hasten your death by 14 years. Whatever. It tastes so good! No matter where you put it…even in beer and whisky – […]
Try Dry Fly
When you first saunter upon the Dry Fly Distillery collection of whiskies, there is nothing about the packaging that either oozes old school dignity nor screams brazen young whippersnapper superficial taunts. It looks rather nondescript with a rather stodgy [if you ask me] fly-fishing fly as a logo. But this mostly belies what is held within the confines of their glass coffins. Some of it is mediocre, some of it […]
Whisky F. Scott Might Have Drank
Baz Luhrmann’s rendition of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic,“The Great Gatsby”, is loud [thanks to a Jay-Z soundtrack] and ostentatious – which may or may not be what Fitzgerald had in mind – Luhrmann tends to make his own showy look-at-me interpretations of classics. But Macallen jumps on the Gatsby bandwagon along with UK-based retailer, Harrods as the posh department store has set up a Great Gatsby-themed cocktail bar from […]
The Muscles From Russell’s
Some of you may have more pleasant memories than this, but when we catch a glimpse of a bottle of Wild Turkey, it sends me either into a catatonic trance with murmurs of “the horror, the horror” a la one of Marlon Brando’s best scenes from “Apocalypse Now” or fits of collegiate convulsions in a more direct re-enactment of the last time I had Wild Turkey – in college. So […]
Evan Williams Single Barrel 2002 Black Sheep Of The Family
800 casks were said to make up the 2002 vintage of Evan Williams Single Barrel, so WC must have won the lottery and received the black sheep of the cask family. The not-so-clever acronym for Evan Williams Single Barrel is EWSB and, coincidentally, that is akin to the first sound that emanated from our mouths upon tasting the 2002 vintage. It went something like “Eewww, splfftbb!!! What was that!?” Turns […]
Give Me Lexington Or Give Me, Well, Some Of That Other Bourbon
Let us approach this review of Lexington Bourbon from a positive perspective rather than a negative angle – it’s not that the bourbon that proclaims to receive a 95 from the experts at The Tasting Panel magazine is bad, nor are we in any lofty position to challenge the TP experts’ taste buds to a bourbon duel or their organization’s corporate schmoozing skills – it’s merely that Lexington is most […]
Bulleit 10 Chars Nostril Follicles
At first, the fluorescent green color of Bulleit 10 – the new 10-year aged bourbon from Bulleit – threw me off, but maybe that was just the hallucinations of Ferdinand Magellan talking or Theodor Geisel or some combination of the two. Okay, all joking aside, Bulleit 10 is not really fluorescent green – though I do think it would be an excellent marketing ploy to grab that uber-millennial, short-attention spanned, […]
What Are You Willing To Do For Whiskey?
The emergence and continued existence of reality shows on television seems to prove rather conclusively that people will do just about anything if they deem the carrot dangled in front of them to be delicious enough for their tastes. Working on this premise, the humans working for the Label 5 whiskey brand have decided they would like to make people jump through a variety of hoops and promote their whiskey […]
Cigars? Whiskey? BBQ? What’s The Catch?
If somebody told you that you could go to an all-you-can-eat BBQ, smoke four Rocky Patel cigars and wash it down with all the Glenlivet, Jameson and Chivas Regal whiskey samples you want, what are the odds you would claim that “somebody” was crazy? Well, consider WhiskeyCritic as your new crazy best friend because we are that somebody telling you about “Smoke” – the BBQ/Cigar/Whiskey fest that will be occurring […]
Every Whiskey Tells A Story, Don’t It?
Most people used to have whiskey for drinking, but if you lived in Akron, Ohio a hundred years ago [or whatever measurement of time the millennials and sub-millenials and uber-millennials use to describe the 1950s] then you came to a realization that whiskey could only carry you a certain distance and at that distance, something else had to be done. What had to be done turned out to be painting. […]
The Whiskey Wedding
Your brother, best friend, college buddy or cousin twice removed – after all, it’s not really going to matter by the end of the reception – is getting married and you’re invited. This means several things, many of them itchy and uncomfortable – but it also means that you will undoubtedly be submitted to the curse of the open bar whiskey. The poison you pick will surely be […]
Smell Ya Later
Admit it, you have always wanted to smell like you crawled out of a whiskey – and perhaps, many times you have – but now, through the magic of science and whiskey, you can smell like the inside of a whiskey bottle all the time and without the hangover – and probably the ladies, because we are not sure if the whiskey scent is going to be a chick magnet […]
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