Updated August 28, 2022 By Richard Thomas Rating: C Fireball Cinnamon Whisky has received a lot of attention lately as the red hot (pun intended) flavored whisky commodity, gulped down by college kids by the quart and inspiring a legion of imitators. Until 2012, it was an obscure product available mostly in Canada. Yet a little slick marketing and some ...

A. Smith Bowman Distillery announces the last release in its Abraham Bowman line for 2014, the Abraham Bowman Limited Edition Vanilla Bean Infused Whiskey. This new whiskey was aged a total of seven years and six months in the barrel. Barrels of A. Smith Bowman bourbon were infused with chopped up Madagascar vanilla beans in October of 2012. Beans were ...

By Richard Thomas On Tuesday, Sazerac, makers of the trendy Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, insisted that Fireball was safe to drink and denied rumors that there had been a product recall in North America. It also explained the origin of the misunderstanding. Late last week Sazerac, the makers of Fireball, was contacted by its European bottler regarding a small recipe-related compliance ...

By Richard Thomas If you have a bottle of cherry-infused whiskey laying around, such as Jim Beam Red Stag, and don’t know what to do with it, I have a suggestion from DYC in Spain: the Green Temptation. Like a lot of my mixing recipes, this one doesn’t require anything you aren’t likely to have around the house in the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: D+ I’ve always thought one of the odder trends in the burgeoning sector of flavored whiskeys and liqueurs is the emergence of the maple whiskey. Honey whiskey liqueurs have been around for decades, and most of the others follow one of the many ways people used to put some flavor into their corn whiskey and/or moonshine. ...