I’ve always considered Bacardi to be a brand of spirits that works best in a cocktail: something to provide alcohol content and a smidge of flavor, but not really something
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I’ve always considered Bacardi to be a brand of spirits that works best in a cocktail: something to provide alcohol content and a smidge of flavor, but not really something
Continue readingIf you’ve been looking for a gift for your dog loving friends and loved ones, you may have stumbled across some toys that look oddly similar to famous brands of
Continue readingLast week, we reviewed a straight bourbon whiskey from Copper Still. It had some good levels of rye spice (apple, black pepper, etc) and made for a fine cocktail spirit.
Continue readingI’m always intrigued by no-name brands, especially from regions that aren’t widely known as whiskey-producing areas of the United States. Whiskey is an insanely crowded market where brand identity is
Continue readingDan in Chicago, 6’2” and 240 pounds… *ding* If you’ve ever listened to the Dan Patrick Show on radio or streaming, you’ll recognize the common introduction by most callers. While I
Continue readingThere are a growing number of distilleries in the Austin area, and the newest one to open its doors is Fierce Whiskers. We visited them a little over a year
Continue readingThe Balvenie distillery is one of the last holdouts in the industry doing pretty much everything in-house (what we could call a “grain to glass” distillery in other parts of
Continue readingPicking up a bottle of no-name bourbon off the liquor store shelf is a little bit like pulling the lever on a slot machine. On occasion, this approach has been
Continue readingThe folks up north at Balcones Distilling have a pretty good track record with whiskey collaborations. We reviewed their Shiner Bock collaboration Balcones Texas Bock about two years ago and
Continue readingA few months ago I was in the Florida Keys, browsing the bourbon selection at a local store on Summerland Key. Unsurprisingly, I saw a lot of the larger brands
Continue readingTo the benefit of every tourist to Key West, there is no shortage of places to get a good drink. Having spent some time there recently, I came across the
Continue readingYou’d think that the oldest continuously operating gin distillery in the world would be a bit more flashy and ostentatious with their packaging, but in fact you are looking at
Continue readingIf the photo above isn’t exactly what you picture when you think of Bombay Gin, you’re probably not alone. While the blue bottle of their Sapphire label might be the
Continue readingI am a big fan of the standard edition Tanqueray London dry gin — I mean, there’s a reason it was (reportedly) the first spirit served in the White House
Continue readingThere are plenty of new bourbons on the market these days, but not all of them come from actual distilleries. Some of them source their spirits elsewhere, do something interesting
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