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By Debbie Shocair Rating: B Crown Royal, sometimes simply “CR,” has long been the number one selling Canadian whisky in the United States and one of the top selling whiskies in the world. I’m sure nearly all of us have at some point had one of their signature purple felt bags at one time or another. This Canadian whisky whose ...

By Richard Thomas Thanks to the bourbon boom and its attendant increase in tourism, most of Kentucky’s distilleries have become more than just whiskey factories. All but the most industrial sport attractive visitors centers, and some have positioned themselves as events venues as well. That some Kentucky distilleries would take advantage of their own events facilities to host evening entertainments ...

By Richard Thomas Late last month, our Cooking With Whiskey beat brought a feature on the virtues of using bourbon as an ingredient for cooking out on the 4th of July, along with some suggestions on how to do it from our inventory of recipe plus a pair of well-known barbecue chefs. There is still plenty of summer left, though, ...

Arizona’s Hamilton Distillers is gearing up for the release of “Distiller’s Cut” cask strength American single malt whiskey, a first for the Grand Canyon State. “We’re excited to offer a cask strength single malt whiskey that allows us the opportunity to be more playful in our blending, which ultimately results in some very special batch-to-batch variation,” says Nathan Thompson Avelino, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B One of the great traditions in Southern style moonshine is the apple pie flavor, a classic recipe for making white lightning more palatable. Most purveyors of legal moonshine have a version. So, it only follows that one of the biggest legal moonshine distilleries would too, and especially so considering it is located outside Great Smoky ...