By Richard Thomas Rating: C Whiskey-based barbecue sauces have gone from being a niche product found in distillery gift shops to a supermarket fixture, Jack Daniel’s line of barbecue sauces are a big part of why. The thing is that a barbecue sauce like the one I review here merely bears the Jack Daniel’s name, and doesn’t have even so ...

By Richard Thomas My wife adores duck, so I’ve been on the lookout for and inventing useful marinades for that particular brand of foul for a few years now. As I cook with whiskey in the same way some people cook with sherry or wine, coming up with an effective whiskey marinade for duck was a priority. After a handful ...

Which Liquor Mixes Best with Coke? By Richard Thomas The recipe is a classic—one part liquor, three parts Coca Cola—and requires nothing more than the two ingredients, ice, and a tall glass to mix them in. The complication comes in with what whiskey to put into that mix, with as many or more whiskey-based variations on the list of highballs ...

The Ultimate Spirits Challenge (USC) was held this year from March 5 to 9 in Astor, New York. This annual event assembles panels of qualified experts to rate a variety of spirits on a 100-point scale. This includes whiskey, which is divided into several categories: American Whiskey, Bourbon, Rye, Tennessee Whiskey, Blended Irish Whiskey, Pot Still Irish Whiskey, Single Malt ...

Updated December 7, 2023 By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ The Kentucky boy’s disdain for Tennessee whiskey once to came easily to me, so much so that when I was younger (and much more foolish), I labeled Tennessee whiskey a bastard offspring of bourbon and yet another classic example of how Kentucky’s southerly neighbors made a mess of aping everything we ...