Cask finishing is a process that has been used widely in Scotland for their spirits, but here in the United States, it’s a pretty new concept. Take an aged whiskey,
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Cask finishing is a process that has been used widely in Scotland for their spirits, but here in the United States, it’s a pretty new concept. Take an aged whiskey,
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During a recent trip to New York, I paid a visit to the Kings County distillery in Brooklyn. It was a great experience, and naturally at the end of the
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While I may have been born and raised in New York, my mother’s side of the family is all in Minnesota. I’ve probably spent more time visiting in that state
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My wife and I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole recently. We started watching a YT channel called How To Drink, and while I don’t always agree with the host
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I saw a whiskey available on Amazon.com the other week. Which is strange — Amazon doesn’t sell whiskey. (I’m sure that’s somewhere in their future plans to take over the
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I like whiskey, and I like tea. So when I heard that Few Spirits was producing a whiskey that incorporated an interesting black tea in the production process, I was
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Kings County Distillery in New York seems to focus heavily on experimental bottlings: different finishing techniques, unique grains used in the process, all sorts of oddness. But before you start
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There are a few bourbons that really stand out for one reason or another. There could be an interesting production process, or an interesting aging location, for example. For this
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Jefferson’s is a brand that made their start bottling a blend of bourbons without doing much of the production or processing themselves. Usually, I’m not that thrilled about a company
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Despite the majority of the whiskey market focused on cranking out bourbon, there’s a slow but steady trickle of newer distilleries that are focusing on other expressions to make their
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Before I fell down the tequila rabbit hole, I had already started wandering off the straight and true path of the whiskey drinker and had found myself investigating rum. It’s
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Austin, Texas is currently one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. With its booming tech and tourism industry (and near constant influx of new residents), it makes
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The folks at Still Austin have been putting out new and interesting versions of their whiskey multiple times a year now — but usually, these releases are limited to only
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It isn’t often that you see a new name on the liquor shelf, and even less frequently that the same new face claims a heritage over 200 years in the
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Barrel aging is a pretty safe bet for taking something good and making it great. Start with something delicious, shove it into a barrel, and conveniently forget about it for
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