Drinking Poetic: Cascading Lines
This is the story of a drink that got away from me. As I’ve said before I tend to turn […]
Drinking Poetic: The Old Fashioned
“I prefer things the Old Fashioned Way!” said every generation ever as things changed around them. The Old Fashioned is […]
Open Bottle: Yamazaki 18 Year Single Malt Mizunara Cask
In today’s edition of things you’ll never get to taste: Yamazaki 50 Year Old!             On Friday August 17th 2018 a bottle […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Early Times Proof of Concept
I’ve talked about it before but I’m really into traveling. Travel opens our eyes to new things, it also shines […]
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: The Declaration of Jim Beam’s 200th Anniversary.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Hibiki’s Resonant Disappearance
Despite being a self avowed fanatic of American whiskey the thing I’ve found myself writing about and drinking the most […]
Whiskey Wednesday: A Bitter-Sweet Hakushu
Life is a bittersweet balance. I’ve been hosting Whiskey Wednesday for going on six years now. It’s exposed me to more bottles […]
Whiskey Wednesday Adjacent: Pick Your Apple Poison
You can always tell what a bar manager’s secret passion is. You’ll look at the backbar and no matter how […]
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 […]
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 […]
Drinking Poetic (on a Wednesday): Highballs
I’m a whiskey purist. Bourbon, Scotch, Japanese, Barrel Strength, it doesn’t matter, I drink it neat. For years I was […]
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: 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 […]
