By Richard Thomas One of the slew of accessory products that came out as a result of the Bourbon Boom were home-aging kits. Many of these were nothing more than oak sticks, with variations adding textured surfaces, charring or toasting. There have also been miniature barrels and, strangest of all, twirling whiskey sticks. The usual advised method for using the ...
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A Year of Whiskey in Calendar Form
By Michael Cervin The idea of the calendar goes back millennia. Obviously we need to keep track of time in some capacity, otherwise we miss work, make late payments and life pretty much goes to hell rather quickly. But for us lovers of brown spirits, why not make a calendar that’s at least interesting and allows us to read about ...
Read More »New Whisky Glassware For Christmas
By Richard Thomas In my book, a hallmark of an insufferable snob is insisting that only certain glasses (worse, just one type of glass) is suitable for drinking whisky. My stock response is “tell that to Jimmy Russell and Booker Noe, who used to drink their stuff out of Dixie cups.” I could just as easily point to the numerous ...
Read More »Bourbon Barrels Now Used To Make Coolers
By April Manning Bourbon and Beyond invited several vendors to the festival and FirstBuild used this opportunity to show off their bourbon related products. FirstBuild is a co-creation community that is subsidized by GE Appliances, giving them access to world-class engineering and design talent. Among their products, the creators at FirstBuild have designed an affordable icemaker for the nugget ice ...
Read More »The Maple Guild Bourbon Barrel Syrup Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Maple syrup and Bourbon are so intertwined nowadays that there are maple-flavored whiskeys made from Bourbon and maple syrups aged in Bourbon barrels. Most often the latter are either made by the Bourbon brand, either in-house or under license. The Maple Guild has gone the other way, and it’s not surprising given how much effort ...
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