There’s a dizzying array of glasses on the market available to serve your various cocktails. But which of these is the “right” glass for your drink? Even just keeping within whiskey-based cocktails, there are quite a few options… and as always the answer is “it depends.”
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The folks at the Woodford distillery have been tinkering with the formula, creating different varieties of their delicious spirit. Today we’re looking at another version they’ve concocted: the Double Oaked Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
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When you say Champagne, there are some brands that come to mind immediately. Moet, Tattinger, Veuve… The list goes on. The same thing is true for scotch whisky. In this case, topping the list of brands synonymous with scotch is Macallan and their flagship double oaked 12 year aged version.
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The Sazerac Cocktail is one of my favorite whiskey cocktails. The simple yet potent cocktail is one of the, if not the oldest cocktails in the United States. The mystery, intrigue, and sophistication of the cocktail will make a Teetotaler curious.
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Over the last few years we’ve seen more and more states legalizing the use of recreational drugs like marijuana and pushing towards national legalization… which just goes to show how far we come. Only 100 years ago, the United States was in a much different place. On this date, January 17th, in 1920 the dark period for whiskey aficionados known as Prohibition started in the United States.
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There are precisely two major distilleries that produce Tennessee whiskey using the time honored Lincoln County process. The first is Jack Daniels, a rather famous whiskey you may have heard of. The other, George Dickel Classic No. 8 Tennessee Sour Mash, I had never heard of — and certainly never tried — an oversight I decided needed fixing.
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When I came back from Lima, Peru, I noted that it’s not exactly a cigar-friendly place. That’s not to say that tobacco isn’t a thing in the whole country — in fact, there’s at least one cigar manufacturer who grows their own tobacco, ages it in their own warehouses, and fabricates cigars locally all within the country of Peru. Today we’re looking at one of their creations, the San Martin by Tabacalera del Oriente
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Half of the enjoyment of drinking a fine spirit is the spirit itself, and the other half is the experience of preparing and consuming. The interesting bottles, the fine glassware… all of the accouterments that go along with the spirit. One of those accessories that seems to be common (especially in movies and TV shows) is the whiskey decanter. But is it a good idea to use a whiskey decanter to store your spirits?
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I was looking through the list of whiskey reviews we’ve done and noticed that there are a lot of states that are missing from the list. Craft distilling is happening all over the United States and I feel like I need to branch out a little more beyond just Texas, New York, Kentucky and Indiana. So when I saw a bottle from the state of Utah I knew that I needed to give it a try.
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Two Stars… it’s an unfortunate name for a bourbon. Even on a three star system, it’s like they’re saying that their bourbon is sub-par. Name aside, today we put this bottle to the test and see just how many starts it gets on our five-point scale.
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