By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor I handed out a personal record of six A grades in 2020, but not a single A+, which makes both Best New Whiskey and Best To Pass My Lips hard calls to make. Frankly, my choices are easily interchangeable. Both were wonderful and both were released during 2020. Just a hair behind the two ...
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Stay At Home With These Canned, Crafty Cocktails
Support Your Favorite Craft Distillers Through Their Canned & Bottled Cocktails By Richard Thomas The covid-19 vaccine may be in distribution, but like a case of Pappy van Winkle, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to get any anytime soon. We’re all set for a long pandemic winter, and if your state hasn’t already tightened its restrictions, that is ...
Read More »Q&A With Stephen Paul, Arizona’s Hamilton Distillers
By Richard Thomas One of the more interesting features of the American craft whiskey boom is the regional spins it has put on what had been, during the second half of the 20th Century at any rate, an industry of the Upper South. When this 21st Century phenomenon brought commercial whiskey-making to the Southwest for the first time, it incorporated ...
Read More »Taking Tastings From A Whiskey Auction
Sampling Prime Choices From The Biggest Single Whisk(e)y Auction Lot Ever By Andrew Graham Whisky Auctioneer, a Scotland-based platform for buying and selling whisky and other spirits on the secondary market, held a private tasting October 15th call attention to the the auction of “Pat’s Whiskey Collection,” billed as the largest private gathering of bottles ever put on the block. ...
Read More »Six New Whiskey Books For Christmas
By Richard Thomas The 2020 Holiday Season has a quite different vibe to it that years past, due in large part to the covid-19 pandemic. With infection numbers spiking around the world, but nowhere worse than in (what is still Donald Trump’s) America, people are looking at the coming of winter and the end of patio and sidewalk drinking and ...
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