By Richard Thomas The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the trade association for the Scotch whisky industry, reported that fell 2.4% in terms of value in 2015, and 2.8% in terms of volume. Although those numbers indicate Scotch whisky exports are continuing their decline, the rate of decline slowed markedly during the past year compared against previous years. In 2014, the ...

By Richard Thomas As revealed in the New York Times article on Russia’s continued state-sponsored doping program for its premier athletes, one of the methods used to escape detection was to dissolve steroids into alcohol. This both sped up absorption and narrowed the window of detection. The booze chosen wasn’t vodka either. For male athletes, it was Chivas Regal, the ...

How To Extend The Shelf Life Of Opened And Unopened Bottles Of Whiskey By Richard Thomas High on my list of candidates for a FAQ at The Whiskey Reviewer is whether or not a bottle of whiskey can spoil, and if so how long it takes to do so. This question also appears regularly on whiskey internet forums. The simple ...

By Richard Thomas After sampling a variety of store-bought whisky mustards, I finally decided to try making my own. A lot of those whisky mustards were of the sweet variety, so this one is adapted to make it spicy. Ingredients 1/2 cup yellow mustard seeds 1/2 cup black mustard seeds 1 tbsp cayenne pepper 1bsp salt 2/3 cup cider vinegar ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B- Glen Grant was founded in 1840. James ‘The Major’ Grant, born in 1847, inherited the distilleries in 1872 and is the major figure in the distillery’s history and the namesake that GlenGrant’s NAS Major’s Reserve is named after. James Grant was the sort of man people like to make up stories about, the kind of ...