Do you know who Ernest Shackleton was? After Columbus, he might be the most famous explorer who didn’t find what he was looking for. In 1909 he and his team attempted to go to the South Pole. When supplies ran out they had to turn back before making it. Now we know that they left [...]
Filed under: scotch, whisky on November 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
Have you been to the liquor store lately? The holiday booze has definitely arrived. The most noticeable of the lot are those spirits gift packs. They usually consist of a distiller’s most popular product and a couple of old fashioned glasses. Sometimes, especially with spirits like gin that are primarily mixed there will be a [...]
Filed under: whisky on November 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
For a few months, I lived in a small apartment in Kansas City. It was a quiet neighborhood not far from the business district. I worked in the suburbs and when I left for work in the morning, the air was heavy with the smell of coffee. This wasn’t your typical “cuppa Joe before I [...]
Filed under: whisky on September 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
I love Knob Creek. I’m by no means an expert in whiskey but I know what I like and Knob Creek is easily my favorite bourbon. That’s not to say that I won’t drink other whiskeys – I will and here lately I’ve had to do a lot more of that. It hadn’t really occurred [...]
Filed under: whiskey, whisky on August 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think it was George Carlin who neatly divided all other drivers on the road between idiots and morons. The idiots are anyone who is driving faster than you as in “Would you look at that idiot go?” Morons are anyone who is driving slower than you, especially if they are in your way as [...]
Filed under: scotch, whisky on February 24th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is the first I’ve heard of a distillery turning to alternative energy sources. Admittedly I pay more attention to the beer industry so I’m familiar with breweries from Anheuser-Bush Inbev and Molson Coors to New Belgium and Brooklyn Brewery using energy produced from wind, spent grains, spilled beer and waste water. Chances are Maker’s [...]
Filed under: whisky on December 29th, 2008 | 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 good whisky made in Wales? [...]
Filed under: Beer, microbrew, microdistillery, whiskey, whisky 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 as the [...]
Filed under: scotch, whiskey, whisky on October 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 and leather [...]
Filed under: scotch, whisky 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: scotch, whiskey, whisky on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »