Scotch maker Glenfiddich recently announced that they’ve selected the lucky barrel for this years vintage reserve release. The barrel, cask #4414 for those keeping score are home, was put away on March 7th, all the way back in 1977. For the past three decades it’s been developing the hints of malt cereal, smokiness […]
Filed under: whisky, scotch on June 20th, 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 »
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 »
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 »
The Beer Blog blogger muses about the authenticity of the stuff in Scotch bottles.
Filed under: whiskey, whisky, scotch on July 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
Welcome to part two of this very occasional series, What’s In a Name, wherein we are exploring the precise meanings of the words on our booze labels. Today we’re going to look at American whisky including bourbon, rye, wheat malt, rye malt, corn whisky, straight whisky, and blended whisky.
Filed under: Bourbon, whisky, Wine, What's In a Name? on July 5th, 2007 | 3 Comments »