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By Richard Thomas My personal preferences lead me to trot out the Scotch whisky only once I can exert myself outdoors and not become drenched with sweat. It’s a style of whisky I prefer to avoid putting on ice, and thus better suited to mild and cold weathers in my book. So it was that… Continue reading Q&A With Balblair’s John MacDonald
By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor I handed out a personal record of six A grades in 2020, but not a single A+, which makes both Best New Whiskey and Best To Pass My Lips hard calls to make. Frankly, my choices are easily interchangeable. Both were wonderful and both were released during 2020. Just… Continue reading Top Picks Of 2020
Support Your Favorite Craft Distillers Through Their Canned & Bottled Cocktails By Richard Thomas The covid-19 vaccine may be in distribution, but like a case of Pappy van Winkle, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to get any anytime soon. We’re all set for a long pandemic winter, and if your state hasn’t already… Continue reading Stay At Home With These Canned, Crafty Cocktails
By Richard Thomas One of the more interesting features of the American craft whiskey boom is the regional spins it has put on what had been, during the second half of the 20th Century at any rate, an industry of the Upper South. When this 21st Century phenomenon brought commercial whiskey-making to the Southwest for… Continue reading Q&A With Stephen Paul, Arizona’s Hamilton Distillers
Sampling Prime Choices From The Biggest Single Whisk(e)y Auction Lot Ever By Andrew Graham Whisky Auctioneer, a Scotland-based platform for buying and selling whisky and other spirits on the secondary market, held a private tasting October 15th call attention to the the auction of “Pat’s Whiskey Collection,” billed as the largest private gathering of bottles… Continue reading Taking Tastings From A Whiskey Auction
