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By Richard Thomas Thanksgiving has come and gone, but the Holidays are around the corner now. What is more, wintertime is the season when you want big time sweets to go with hot tea. One idea I had some years back was to take orange cake into “Cooking With Whiskey” territory. This recipe modifies a generic orange cake recipe by ...

Irish Distillers, producer of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys, today announced a new, global extension to the innovative Jameson Caskmates range with Jameson Caskmates IPA Edition, following a successful trial run in Ireland in September 2017. Jameson Caskmates IPA Edition is a triple distilled Irish whiskey finished in craft IPA-seasoned barrels. The result is a whiskey that ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B+ Barton 1792 Distillery was established in 1879 and continues today as the oldest “fully operating” distillery in the Bardstown, Kentucky, which bills itself (with good cause) as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” Nowadays the distillery is owned by Sazerac, so it’s under the same company roof as Buffalo Trace. Their most recent release ...

As whiskey has become more popular, and thus more lucrative, it has attracted more and more thievery. On October 16, thieves in the UK broke into a truck and stole $30,000 worth of Irish Whiskey. The robbers loaded the whiskey into the back and a van before driving away. Several weeks later, the perpetrators remain at large, this despite the ...

Popular independent bottler Barrell Craft Spirits, better known simply as “Barrell Bourbon,” has two new batches of whiskey coming out for the end of 2017: Barrell Rye Batch 002 and New Year’s Bourbon 2017. This second installment in their Rye Whiskey line is a blend of 5 year old, 100% malted Rye distilled and aged in Poland (!!) in new ...