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Hosting A Whiskey Tasting Party

Putting Together Interesting, Affordable Whiskey Flights For Home Tastings By Richard Thomas With whiskey trendier than ever before, more whiskey fans are introducing friends to their drink of choice in their own homes, taking the bar concept of the whiskey flight and building a tasting party around it. The problem every tasting party host confronts is the painful pouring a ...

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The Old Taylor Distillery

Old Taylor Distillery

By Richard Thomas Come this summer, the whiskey news should be full of stories about the grand reopening of the Old Taylor Distillery, heretofore the prettiest distillery ruin in America, what with its fantasy castle facade and decadent, decayed gardens. If the restoration of a lovely old ruin into a functioning distillery. If that weren’t enough, former Brown-Forman Master Taster ...

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Best Eat & Drink American Whiskey Bars

Jack Rose in Washington, DC

Where To Go For Fine Food And Finer Whiskey By Richard Thomas For even the most diehard and devoted whiskey enthusiast, actual whiskey travel is the exception rather than the rule. Whether it be due to competing interests, family or necessity, entire vacations spent in Speyside, Islay or the Kentucky Bourbon Trail are far from the norm for most whiskey ...

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Elijah Craig 12 Versus Elijah Craig NAS

Elijah Craigh 12 YO

Many Are Saddened And Angered, But How Does The New Elijah Craig Measure Up? By Father John Rayls Poor Elijah Craig 12. Alas, I knew him well. Heaven Hill Distillery has been at the very top of my list of favorite producers ever since I first discovered Elijah Craig 12 Year Old many years ago. I became an unpaid and ...

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