Like so much of the United States, my city of Austin, TX mandated shelter in place rules a few weeks back. With that order, a number of things changed, but one important legal change was that the state of Texas changed their laws to allow restaurants to deliver alcoholic beverages for delivery and to-go. It sounds like that might have been a smart move, because demand for alcohol is booming these days.
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There’s no shortage of great things to do in Austin, Texas. Between the never ending live music and the delicious local food and drinks, there’s rarely a good reason to leave downtown… but I think one specific event this coming weekend should be enough reason to get every whiskey drinker in this part of the state out into the hill country: the Texas Whiskey Fest.
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One of the most popular articles we’ve written is about this butane lighter insert for Zippo lighters. People love the form factor of Zippo lighters, but especially for cigars, having a butane flame is a far superior heat source than the oily lighter fluid. It used to be that you needed third party aftermarket parts to fill that need, but starting this week Zippo is announcing that they are making both a butane and an electric arc lighter insert.
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News broke overnight that one of the massive warehouses where Jim Beam stores its whiskey during the aging process caught fire and continues to burn. The warehouse, containing roughly 40,000 barrels of whiskey, was said to be about the size of a football field and six or seven stories high.
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