On my last post about whisky and aging a fellow by the name of Doug left a comment. He suggested that we check out his community for whisky lovers. Oh boy, another themed myspace clone, right? But no, I think that they’ve really got something here.
Filed under: whiskey, whisky, scotch on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
What does it mean when the label on a bottle of whiskey declares it to be 12 years old?
Filed under: whiskey, Bourbon, whisky, scotch on May 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Whisky Magazine has named their winners for the 2008 World’s Best Whisky awards. For the first time the single malt award didn’t go to a Scottish distiller. The winner this is the twenty year old Yoichi from Japan.
Filed under: whiskey, whisky on April 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
Bushmills turned 400 this week.
Filed under: whiskey on April 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
I tend to go on about this but the variety of silly laws regarding alcohol sales and consumption never cease to amaze me.
Filed under: Beer, whiskey, whisky, Alcohol Law on April 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fred Noe, the seventh generation master distiller at Jim Beam, saw his portrait added alongside his predecessors’ this past week.
Filed under: whiskey, Bourbon on September 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought that I’d worked out the difference between whiskey and whisky. I was wrong. In Ireland and Scotland it’s easy - the Irish make whiskey and the Scottish make whisky. But in the US and elsewhere the lines begin to blur.
Filed under: whiskey, whisky, What's In a Name? on August 29th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The US Senate has declared September to be National Bourbon Heritage month. How does one celebrate National Bourbon Heritage Month? Drink bourbon and go to a bourbon festival.
Filed under: whiskey, Bourbon, whisky on August 7th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Islay Distiller releases the biggest bottle of Scotch whisky in the world.
Filed under: whiskey, whisky, scotch on August 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »