Have you noticed a change in the look of Jim Beam’s bottles? Well, if you haven’t yet you will soon.
I usually have a bottle of Jim Beam somewhere in the house. I like bourbon and, while JB isn’t my favorite, it’s certainly affordable and very decently palatable. It’s my ‘every day’ whiskey.
For […]
Filed under: whiskey, Bourbon on May 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
Yep, it’s March which means stout, Irish whiskey, corned beef and cabbage and lots and lots and lots of green. Whether you like your green on a tee shirt, a pair of flip-flops or beer there will be plenty of it as we get closer to St. Patrick’s Day.
As far as I’m concerned, though, […]
Filed under: whiskey, st. patrick's day, irish on March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Malt Advocate, a whisky magazine, has named its pick for the microdistillery of the year. Before I tell you who the honoree is, take a guess where it’s located. Scotland? Ireland? Kentucky? Nope. Nope. And Nope.
The big winner for 2008 is Penderyn Distillery in Wales. Who knew there was […]
Filed under: Beer, whiskey, whisky, microbrew, microdistillery on November 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
For most Scotch lovers the art of the thing is what’s inside the bottle. Since Scotch is on the pricier end of the booze spectrum I haven’t had the chance to taste a lot of really fine bottles. But the few that I have tried left indelible sense memories that are as strong […]
Filed under: whiskey, whisky, scotch on October 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 | 3 Comments »
Got a spare $30K lying around? You might want to head to Christie’s in New York this weekend for some pretty interesting old and rare bottles of booze are going on the block.
Filed under: whiskey, scotch, cognac, auction, madeira on December 7th, 2007 | No Comments »