By Richard Thomas Last month I finally got the opportunity to catch up with the Netflix and Marvel superhero show Jessica Jones, thereby feeding my superhero entertainment craving. Much to my surprise and amusement, I discovered the show is literally soaked in whiskey. Jessica Jones is the dark and stylish interpretation of the Marvel comic character, a minor superhero turned ...

By Richard Thomas Diageo’s Gimli, Manitoba plant, primary supplier for Crown Royal Canadian Whisky, was at least partially closed after 53 production workers voted unanimously to go on strike this past weekend. These workers are members of UFCW Local 832. According to Radio Canada International, the workers are demanding health and welfare benefits, wage increases and more vacation time from ...

Updated April 28, 2016 By Father John Rayls Average Rating: B+ Lot 40 Canadian Rye Whisky is a product of Hiram Walker & Sons, the former parent company of Canadian Club and now part of Pernard Ricard. The namesake, Hiram Walker, was one of Canada’s pioneering whisky distillers in the early 1850s, along with fellow luminaries J.P. Wiser and Henry ...

How Murray’s Tome Became More About Courting Controversy Than Highlighting Worthy Whiskeys By Richard Thomas Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2016 has been released, and the only thing more reliable for spawning strife in whiskey circles and splaying it onto mainstream headlines is the annual announcement from Buffalo Trace that they are short on stock and continuing to ration it. This ...

By Richard Thomas Whisky Bible author and noted expert Jim Murray named a Canadian whisky as the world’s best in the 2016 edition of his book. In awarding Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye a score of 97.5 and the 2016 World Whisky of the Year crown, he not only gave the title to a Canadian whisky for the first time, but ...