Redbreast Collabs With Toronto Film Festival
Single pot still Irish whiskeymaker Redbreast collaborated with the popular Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to become their official whiskey partner, signing a two-year agreement for the 2025 and 2026 TIFF festivals. Redbreast will promote themselves and so-called hidden cinematic gems with their ‘Redbreast Unhidden’ promotional campaign showcasing films at TIFF 2025 and 2026. Redbreast’s […]
Chivas Touts Tour
Chivas Brothers, along with Midleton Very Rare are hosting a five-day Grand Whisk(e)y Tour, which takes 10 guests via private jet to Ireland and Scotland [with accommodations] from October 6-10, 2025. The Grand Whisk(e)y Tour takes the guests to three distilleries that produce Royal Salute, Chivas Regal, The Glenlivet, and Midleton Very Rare. The tour […]
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Distillery Gives Birth To Glengassaugh 30-Year-Old
The Portsoy Distillery in Scotland produced its first whisky since being taken over by BenRiach Distillery in March – a 30-year-old Glengassaugh single malt – that promises a first wave full of fruit [peach, mango, banana are most often mentioned] followed by a finishing wave of toffee, ginger and oak spiciness. The new 30-year-old Glenngassaugh single malt brings 89.6 proof [44.8% alcohol] to the table and will be released to […]
Guinness Outs The Red Harvest Stout
Summer is not over but Guinness is getting a jump on autumn with the upcoming release of their Red Harvest Stout seasonal beer. The non-pumpkin flavored beer features a deep red hue and is said to fondle caramel and toffee aromas before emerging in a barley, sweet malty taste. The each four-pack of the 14.9-ounce cans [4.1% alcohol each] comes with a story of the Celtic tradition of the Samhain […]
Lobster Meets Maple Whisky Halfway
Labor Day Weekend is rapidly approaching – it may already have arrived for some of you – and that means you may be put under pressure to come up with some quirky recipe that deviates from the norm of BBQ burgers, hot dogs, potato salad and whatnot [it’s that whatnot that always gets you]. If you have access to Cabin Fever Maple Whisky and your pockets are deep enough to […]
2 Gingers Adds Nine States
If you live in the upper Midwest portion of the United States of America, then you probably already had access to 2 Gingers whiskey – but only if you lived in the right cities in the 10 states where it was available before June. But now nine more states were added to the 2 Gingers distribution list – thanks to the new whiskey label being owned by Beam – and […]
Jameson Goes On Holiday
Jameson is already a well-known Irish whiskey brand but it is about to be even more well-known in at least eight cities around the world after the company unveiled their City Editions this month that feature labels for eight worldwide cities – Amsterdam, Bangkok, Dublin, London, Moscow, Paris, Singapore and Sydney. These limited edition Jameson City Editions will highlight each city in a postage stamp-like format with Amsterdam’s becoming the […]
From Moonshine To Single Malt
Finding moonshine in the state of Nebraska – or roughly the 900-mile radius thereabouts – is rarely a problem, finding single malt whiskies, however – that is more problematic. Mostly because Nebraska happens to be located amidst cornfields in the USA and not in Speyside in Scotland. But Nebraskans are nothing if not resilient and after two year of aging in American oak barrels, Cut Spike Distillery has produced their […]
Bees Or Bears – It’s All About The Honey
Actor Phil Morris in his Jackie Chiles character [a parody of famed O.J. Simpson lawyer, Johnnie Cochran] is representing the bees in a fake lawsuit brought against the bears for wasting honey by eating it when it should be saved to go into Jim Beam Honey whiskey…
Wild Turkey’s Mistake Produces WTF!
Whether or not you choose to believe it, it makes for a good story around the whiskey-drinking table. As Wild Turkey master distiller Eddie Russell tells it, the WT distillery crew “mistakenly” combined rare 22% four-year-old rye with 78% six-year-old bourbon and the resulting newborn was a 91 proof [45.5% alcohol] small batch bourbon-rye whiskey that he named “Forgiven” [after what he supposedly says he told the crew after the […]
Herman’s Bourbon
If you are either from Texas, have been to Texas or have heard about Texas from your friends, it is likely that you know about the premier whiskey from that state, Balcones. However, as Texas is quite a large state – by American state standards – there is bound to be another premium brown spirit that would come along if only to avoid having to say or type Waco [where […]
Remy Martin Douses GQ Men of the Year In 2013
Remy Martin Cognac is the iconic so it makes perfect sense for Remy Martin to be the official spirits sponsor of the GQ magazine Men Of The Year contest for 2013. As official spirits sponsor of the fashionable manly contest [won last year by Channing Tatum in the USA, like you didn’t know] it means Remy Martin is the main spirit being served at the award ceremony and also gives […]
…And In This Corner – Angel’s Envy
Imagine if you will, that old decision-making scenario popularized in “Animal House” where an angel pops up on one shoulder and the devil pops up on the other and each provides the pros and cons as to the current decision that must be made. Well, when it comes to the new Angel’s Envy bourbon, the name says it all – the angel has already sided with the decision that is […]
Go West, Young Man, For Marionberry Whiskey
There are all sorts of flavors of whiskey popping up these days so, Marionberry Whiskey? Why not? This newest flavor of whiskey comes from Eastside Distillery in Portland, Oregon, flirts with your nostrils in the expected fruity aromatic wily ways [but with a touch of spicy citrus] and while you would not expect it to pack the punch of a Woodford Reserve, you would be right, it doesn’t. Marionberry Whiskey […]
Mumford Whiskey In The Barrel
What is going on here!? First there was Selena Gomez taking a shot of Jack and now here is Mumford and Sons – the popular bluegrass, alt-folk or whatever you want to call them [just don’t call them rock-and-roll, Alice Cooper says real rock-and-rollers can’t be vegans and have to eat steak] musicians jumping on the whiskey train. The Mumfords, rather than subtly sponsor a particular brand by admitting they […]
Live True, Preferably With Dewar’s
It’s not certain if this is how John Dewar Sr. would have done it or perhaps it is just how they do things in Spain – but either way it seems odd that there would be an entire advertisement for Dewar’s Scotch Whisky in Spain showing many younger people not only not playing soccer but also not actually possessing a glass containing Dewar’s – never mind being seen drinking said […]
Selena Gomez Meets Jack Daniels On Her 21st Birthday
Normally, pop princess Selena Gomez and Jack Daniels whiskey would not be two names you expect to see in the same sentence, but such is the popularity of whiskey these days that it has come to this – Gomez admitting to talk show host Jay Leno that she did indeed meet Jack Daniels -and took some shots at him – on her 21st birthday for her first legal drinks. Of […]
100-Year-Old Whiskey Evaporates Into Man’s Mouth
John Saunders, a 62-year-old caretaker in Pennsylvania, was officially charged this week with stealing nearly half of the 104 bottles of Old Farm Pure Rye whiskey that was found in his landlord’s house and which he was supposed to be safeguarding. Well, he kept it safe alright – Saunders kept the contents of nearly 50 of those bottles safely residing in his mouth over the past few years until landlord […]
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