By Emma Briones By the end of the 60s, Red Spot couldn’t be found in the shelves. Fifty years later, Mitchell & Son and Irish Distillers, have decided that it was about time for a comeback. Thus, the original Red Spot has been reimagined and recreated in this new single pot still whiskey. Not so long ago, “The Spots” occupied ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B+ Coffee and coffee houses have been and remain trendy for the “it crowd,” and sometimes beyond. Specialty coffee has awaken millennials all around Europe, hungry for a hot or cold beverage that can be enjoyable and also look great on social media (and thank God we are already past the avocado-coffee trend!). The combination of ...

By Richard Thomas As a Gen Xer guy, I was part of the tail end of the days when people bought actual printed girlie magazines, so I must make a confession/disclaimer in opening this interview: Carrie Stevens, Ms. June 1997, was my favorite from that era. Twenty years later, I tripped over her social media, remembered her, and became a ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: C I am an outlier among Millennials in that I frequently have to Google celebrities to find out who they are, so learning that MMA fighter and boxer Conor McGregor is behind Proper No. 12, a new Irish whiskey, didn’t set me up with any particularly elevated expectation for the spirit. Instead, I gave it an ...

Irish Distillers has unveiled Red Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey. Last seen in the mid-1960s, this spicy new member of the Spot Whiskeys range offers whiskey drinkers further choice in the innovative super-premium Irish whiskey category. Crafted from an old recipe handed down by the Mitchell & Son family of wine merchants, the creators of the original Spot Whiskeys ...