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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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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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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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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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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I have this argument with my wife quite frequently: where, exactly, is the line for “upstate” New York? Growing up in Westchester County, my opinion was that anything north of
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There are some trails that reward you with a view, and some that reward you with sore calves and the kind of tiredness that makes a good drink feel earned.
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Celebrity spirits are a dime a dozen these days — and we’ve reviewed more than a few of them here. Every actor, musician, and retired athlete with a publicist and
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Italy is one of my favorite places to visit, and there are two liqueurs that I associate most strongly with those amazing visits: amaro and limoncello. Now, amaro is unfortunately
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I frequently have a unique problem: I like traveling to new places, buying bottles of local whiskey, and consuming them in the form of a good old fashioned cocktail at
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