Every whiskey drinker has that one store. The one where you know the shelves by heart, where you trust that the person behind the counter has actually tasted the stuff,
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Every whiskey drinker has that one store. The one where you know the shelves by heart, where you trust that the person behind the counter has actually tasted the stuff,
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I was standing in a duty-free shop in Cancun, bags checked, with some time to burn before boarding. I turned to the woman working the tequila section and asked her
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This has been a holy grail bottle for me for years. I started this website in 2018, and in the entire time since, Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch has been
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I absolutely love a good hefeweizen. My all-time favorite is the Live Oak HefeWeizen from Live Oak Brewing in Austin, Texas – it’s that perfect combination of crisp, refreshing, citrus-forward
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In case you haven’t been following our latest reviews, I bought several holiday / winter themed bottles last November with every intention of writing them up as a proper Christmas
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During the summer in Chicago, I fire up the Traeger as often as humanly possible. I mean, who doesn’t love smoked meats? And it doesn’t hurt that it gets me
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I bought this bottle last November, along with a couple of other seasonal spirits, fully intending to write the whole batch up as a Christmas feature. Then I procrastinated. Around
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One hundred reviews. When I wrote my first review for Thirty-One Whiskey, I was a freshly minted Chicagoan who didn’t yet know what he was getting into with the bottle
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I bought three holiday themed bottles of alcoholic liquid last November with every intention of doing a proper Christmas feature. Then I procrastinated too much, and missed the holiday. So
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There’s a particular kind of decision you make when you’re about to leave town for a few days — the kind where you’re standing in the liquor store with a
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I’m generally not a “beach person” — I can only manage a few hours of doing nothing before I get antsy. Which is one of the reasons I enjoy a
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When I moved to Raleigh, North Carolina a couple of years back, I made myself a quiet promise: I’d work my way through the local distilleries, one bottle at a
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There’s a hierarchy of coolness among pilots — a level of adoration and envy that comes as one climbs the ranks and looks at those still above them on the
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When I picked up four bottles from Distillery 291 on that hiking trip through Colorado Springs this spring, this was the one I bought with someone else in mind. My
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Of the four bottles I picked up from Distillery 291 during a hiking trip to Colorado Springs in May 2026, this is the one that made me do a double
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