By Richard Thomas August is here, usually the most brutal month of the summer. Unless you are sitting in a heavily air conditioned vault, August is also the least palatable month for whiskey for many, what with the finish making things unbearable otherwise. One of my solutions for beating the heat with whiskey is to start making mint juleps, but ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ Back when premium vodka was all the rage, I never quite got into it. Rooted as I was in the mother’s milk of Kentucky bourbon, my interest in “clear stuff” quickly shifted from trendy vodka to decidedly untrendy moonshine and corn whiskey. Given that this was years before the hipsters discovered moonshine, I really do ...