Tag: Bourbon Babe

If you’re heading to the Yum! Center for the Pink concert tonight, consider making a stop before or after at the new Down One Bourbon Bar, 321 W. Main St. Created in a space that was once a parking garage, it’s…

My recent post about which Girl Scout cookie goes best with bourbon drew lots of attention and comment, and many of you have subsequently been busy conducting your own taste tests. Several people noted that Maker’s Mark paired well with…

Cookies and milk? Amateurs. Like many weak people this time of year, the Bourbon Babe is currently overrun with Girl Scout cookies. And the pile of boxes near the bourbon stash got me to thinking: Which cookie(s) would go best…

So I’ve been hearing a lot this week about a new trend on the Chicago cocktail scene: the Vaportini. It’s a device invented by the owner of Red Kiva, a cocktail lounge in the West Loop, that evaporates flavor-infused spirits…

Jimmy and Eddie Russell have cooked up a new product over at Wild Turkey: Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. At 110 proof, it should have a bigger kick than Russell’s Reserve (90) or the Wild Turkey whiskeys,…

Cheers to all the Kentucky winners at the 85th annual Academy Awards: Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence, a Louisville native (nice recovery from that fall, too) George Clooney, one of the producers of Best Picture winner “Argo” (his second Oscar, following…

What a waste of good Scotch. James Bond (Daniel Craig) after bad guy Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) shoots the girl rather than the glass on her head in “Skyfall,” spilling the contents. Hollywood will pay tribute to 50 years of 007 during the…

It has been 40 years since Secretariat swept the Triple Crown, becoming the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby in under 2 minutes (1:59 2/5, still the record), making a last-to-first finish in the Preakness and annihilating the rest of…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJuCR3o0yXw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=375] Leo on ice: In one of those only-for-foreign-markets commercials, Leonardo DiCaprio, who probably hasn’t been this cold since he froze to death in “Titanic,” puts some Jim Beam on ice. A LOT of ice. I mean, that’s a Jim…

The dust is still settling on Maker’s Mark’s decision to reduce the alcohol by volume of its flagship brand from 45 percent to 42 percent and then back again, but before we move on, I wanted to report on the…