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• 5 Whiskey Sour Recipes for National Whiskey Sour Day
  on Aug 25, 2016 in Cocktail Recipes Featured Whiskey Whiskey Sour
  August 25 is National Whiskey Sour Day, so that seems like a fine occasion for rounding up a five-pack of whiskey sours. The traditional cocktail is comprised of either three or four ingredients, depending who you ask. Those would be whiskey, lemon,...
• Jim Beam Double Oak Review
  on Aug 24, 2016 in Bourbon Featured Liquor Reviews Whiskey Jim Beam Liquor Review
  Jim Beam Double Oak is a new release that, as the name implies, is aged twice. Four year old Jim Beam bourbon is taken out of its charred American white oak barrel, the standard wood for maturing bourbons, and then moved to another charred oak barrel...
• Spiced Banshee Cocktail Recipe
  on Aug 19, 2016 in Cocktail Recipes Rum
  The Painkiller is a fine, fine cocktail. Itself a riff on the Piña Colada, the Painkiller is composed of rum, pineapple, orange juice and cream of coconut and gets a dusting of nutmeg on top. Well, here comes a riff on the Painkiller. From Charlesto...
• William Wolf Coffee Whiskey Review
  on Aug 17, 2016 in Liquor Reviews Whiskey Liquor Review William Wolf
  Coffee and whiskey are both liquids with a knack for making life a little more tolerable. So it seems only natural that they’d join forces at one point. Whether in your glass as separate entities, or as a bottled alliance. In this case, as William...
• The Golden Medal Cocktail
  on Aug 11, 2016 in Cocktail Recipes Featured Vodka Olympics
  One week in, and the world’s best athletes are putting on a fine show at the Olympics, with swimmers, gymnasts and beach volleyball players reminding us why we’re here on the couch. Watching, cheering, drinking… And while much of ou...
• Blue Lake Vodka Review
  on Aug 9, 2016 in Liquor Reviews Vodka Liquor Review
  Blue Lake Vodka comes from Humboldt Craft Spirits in California. The independently-owned craft distillery produces and bottles everything on site. In this case, everything consists of that vodka, plus a rye whiskey that’s currently resting in b...
• Three Caipirinhas to Drink During the Olympics
  on Aug 5, 2016 in Cachaca Cocktail Recipes Featured Caipirinha Olympics
  The whole world will diving into the 2016 Summer Olympics tonight as the games kick off with the Opening Ceremony. For better or worse, the next few weeks in Rio will be interesting to watch. We’re hoping for the best, but to hedge our bets, we...
• Making Bitters with Auchentoshan
  on Aug 4, 2016 in Bitters Events Featured Scotch Tales of the Cocktail auchentoshan Hella Bitters
  As the rain poured down on an otherwise lovely afternoon in the Big Easy, a small group of us dipped into the fascinating New Orleans Pharmacy Museum to learn more about bitters and single malt scotch. It was a fitting locale, what with the medicinal...
• Lagavulin 8 Year Old Scotch Whisky Review
  on Jul 28, 2016 in Liquor Reviews Scotch Whiskey lagavulin Liquor Review
  Lagavulin turns 200 this year—but it’s never been younger, thanks to the release of Lagavulin 8 Year Old. This whisky stands out from its elder brothers not just in age statement, but also in price and color. Lagavulin 8 is a delicate light gold...
• Highlights from Tales of the Cocktail 2016
  on Jul 27, 2016 in Events News Tales of the Cocktail
  Another Tales of the Cocktail is in the books, and with it, another productive week spent in New Orleans attending seminars, tasting spirits, meeting distillers and enjoying enough revelry to make us feel fortunate this only happens once per year. It...

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