Spirits industry giant Diageo has revealed plans to build their own distillery in Kentucky. More specifically, Diageo – whose bourbon and whiskey brands include Bulleit, Bushmills and Crown Royal – will be building the new distillery in Shelby County, Kentucky, at a cost of $115 million.The 300-acre facility is expected to produce several hundred thousand […]
Both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are coming up and both occasions might require a fair amount of whisky. The Glenglassaugh Distillery is on the case as they have released a batch of single cask Highland malt whisky bottlings ranging in age from 28 years to 45 years. All were selected by Glenglassaugh Distillery master […]
There’s a new single malt whisky sheriff in town – or rather, the Outer Hebrides in Scotland – and its name is Hearach. That will be the name of the new single malt whisky produced from the new distillery being built on the Outer Hebrides Isle of Harris – only the second distillery to be […]
There is drama afoot in Kentucky as the well-known Buffalo Trace Distillery called their local police department last week and it wasn’t to invite them over for the annual Halloween party – it was to report the abduction of Pappy Van Winkle. More notably, somebody had absconded with 195 bottles [or 65 cases’ worth] of […]
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 […]
As long as you are over the age of 21 and do not reside in Washington, D.C., you are eligible to enter the Knob Creek National Summer Sweepstakes which began earlier this month. The grand prize is a chance to tour the Knob Creek distillery at the Jim Beam American Stillhouse in Clermont, Kentucky with […]
Beginning this week – and provided you can get to Virginia – some of George Washington’s old hooch will go on sale. America’s first president loved his rye whiskey and the George Washington Distillery in Virginia will recreate that liquid using local grain, water and going by Washington’s original recipe and techniques of the time. […]