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 ...

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 ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: A I am a long time fan of Booker’s Bourbon, and even with so many options around it remains one of my regular “go-to” whiskeys. It’s big and bold and full of flavor, uncut and straight from the barrel. Named for Booker Noe, a Beam Master Distiller for over thirty years who certainly knew a ...

By Richard Thomas Where does the line between Scotch enthusiast, someone who enjoys a dram of fine single malt and knows something about it, and the Scotch geek, or the person who devotes a large and probably growing segment of their lives to the “Water of Life,” lie? To borrow a page from Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a Scotch ...

Hot Whiskeys To Watch For Later This Year By Richard Thomas January has come and gone, so we’re not only already well into 2016, but we’re also out of the “whiskey doldrums” that follow the big U.S. autumnal release season and the Holidays. Now is the time for enthusiasts to wonder what the coming year has in store for them. ...