By Richard Thomas When non-Hoosiers think of Indiana whiskey, they usually think of a sourced brand based on the work of that survivor of the Seagram empire, the distillery in Lawrenceburg now known as MGP. However, Indiana is home to a craft distilling scene of its own, and in terms of its scope and vibrancy that scene is every bit ...

A Chat With The Co-Founder And CEO Of San Jose’s Single Malt-Maker By Richard Thomas When asked how he got into whisky, Virag Saksena tells a story of his father letting him try a little when he was just five years old, in hopes of inculcating a lifelong dislike for drinking it. Obviously, that bit of parental psychology backfired badly. ...

By Kurt Maitland Last year, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sukhinder Singh, the co-owner and founder of online retailer The Whisky Exchange, prior to the start of the 2019 Whisky Show. Briefly, Sukhinder is quite the force in the whisky industry. He’s been a collector since the late 1980s, and the bottles in his personal collection that are hard ...

By Kurt Maitland You’ve actually already met Colin Hampden-White in our interview with his fellow Three Drinkers. However, he and I go back a bit (we have a few mutual friends and constantly run into each other at whisky festivals) so I had a few additional questions to ask him about his career in spirits as well his hit Amazon ...

By Kurt Maitland There are a world’s worth of bars – from speakeasies and dives to tourist traps and posh hotel bars, but for me perhaps the most important is the neighborhood bar. A “Cheers” type situation—where the bar owner knows the name of their regulars, the bartenders know what you drink and what’s new on the menu that you ...