By S.D. Peters A Moonshine Romance “Moonshine” – a word that’s worth a thousand pictures. Whether sepia-toned, awash in cinematic midnight or muddled with shadows, those pictures evoke a giddy infatuation for Appalachia’s hills & hollers or a longing nostalgia for Chicago’s speakeasies in the hearts and minds of those who have never tasted moonshine, never visited Hazard or Harlan ...

By Richard Thomas Wine Enthusiast, one of the wine industry’s leading lifestyle magazines, stumbled badly this year by naming Michters Whiskey as its 2012 Distillery of the Year. In so doing, the popular magazine named a company without an actual working still as the leading distiller of not just the whiskey trade, but the entire spirits industry. Michters Whiskey isn’t ...

By Kurt Maitland As I have learned more about whiskeys (or “whiskies”), especially how they are made and how each manufacturer can turn what is a simple set of basic ingredients into a staggering array of complex tastes, I have found myself evaluating the individual qualities and factors that each one brings to the table. Over time, my standards and ...