Author: Nick Leghorn

I was hanging out with the folks at Still Austin a few weeks ago (a great local Austin distillery) talking about whiskey, and specifically talking about the good work that

Now that I review whiskey for a (pseudo) living, I try to keep an eye on when new brands come out. This one seemed to slip my notice until my

One of my favorite spirits is the Mother Pepper from Still Austin. It was a solid, spicy, unaged whiskey that worked amazingly well in cocktails, but unfortunately Still Austin has

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some interesting changes to the travel and hospitality industries. Especially for airlines, where small enclosed spaces where people are in close contact for multiple hours

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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