Quarantine Bottle Kill #7: Drouin Pomme Prisonnière
I think the biggest thing people feel they have lost from this whole quarantine is time. Time lost on their […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Blood Oath Pact #5
A couple of months ago I was graciously sent a sample of the new release of Blood Oath Bourbon. Between competitions, menu flips, leaving a job, and much needed vacation travel after leaving said job the sample unfortunately fell by the wayside. But with Halloween nearly upon us I figure it would be appropriate to crack open a little Blood Oath and see what it was about.
Whiskey Wednesday: Nikka From The Barrel and to the US
One of the best things about traveling is seeing what is out there in the world that can’t be seen […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Four Roses Al Young’s 50th
Almost every shift I get asked what has to be one of my least favorite questions, “What’s your favorite whiskey?” […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Darkest (Bowmore) Timeline
Remember when the regions of Scotland were a thing? Highlands, Lowlands, Islands, Campbelltown, Speyside, and Islay? For years brand ambassadors […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Tyrconnell’s Long Odds
Every now and then I like to remind myself that Irish Whiskey isn’t spelt “Jameson’s.” I’ve talked about the explosive […]
Drinking Poetic: West of Brooklyn
I’m sentimental in my head. I say head because I’m less emotionally sentimental and more intellectually sentimental, meaning that I […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Unicorns, Whales, and Narwhales
Unicorns are all around. You can see them prancing through the Instagram forest, taunting you with delicious rivulets running down […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Islay Barley
When you think of whisky and what gives it it’s flavor what springs to mind? Is it the mashbill, the […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Art of Kavalan
If the Scots are the craftsman of the whisky world, passing down tradition and technique year after year because it […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Knob Creek 25th Anniversary
Bourbon is an old tradition, dating back hundreds of years to our rugged frontier forefathers and foremothers who proved their […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Compass Box Directions
There are things that I love and there are things that I intellectually love. There’s a Venn Diagram where these […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Traditional Yoichi Changes
After taking a look at what could be classified as one of the old school classics of Japanese Whisky, the new […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Baller American Single Malt
It’s a distinctly American thing to look at a creation of another group or country and say, “Yeah, I can […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Ichiro’s Global Plan
If the Yamazaki and Suntory represent the old school powers that be in Japanese Whisky, than the Chichibu and Ichiro Akuto represent […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Yamazaki Price
What would you do with $130,000? Buy a house? A Tesla? Travel the world? Or maybe you decide screw it […]
