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 […]
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 […]
Drinking Poetic: The Ship of Theseus
I compete in a lot of bartender competitions. Not only is it a great tool for advancing my career […]
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: Areal Origins
This morning I got off a plane in LAX coming back from Louisville,Kentucky where I was on a trip to […]
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 […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Chivas Brothers
Some things seem so ubiquitous, so omnipresent that they become nearly invisible. All of the work, all of the marketing, […]
