For the past decade, bourbon fans have eagerly awaited the annual fall release of Buffalo Trace’s Antique Collection. This year’s Antique release comes with a new (and permanent) twist: Eagle Rare 17-Year-Old Bourbon will now be 101 proof, rather than…
What do you think women like to drink? I suppose I’m aiming this question at all men, but I’m mostly interested in responses from the men in R&D at distilling companies — and my question is prompted by the release…
This week (June 6-12) is the third annual Negroni Week (#NegroniWeek), a celebration started in 2013 by Imbibe magazine and Campari to celebrate the iconic cocktail and to raise money for charity. Click here for more information and venues near…
Bourbon innovation moves forward with a nod to the past as Brown-Forman announces its first new bourbon brand in 20 years: Coopers’ Craft. The name reflects Brown-Forman’s more than 70 years of making barrels as the only major distiller to own…
Our long national nightmare may soon be over: Starting next year, there may finally be an emoji for whiskey drinkers. The Unicode Consortium, which standardizes characters and emojis across operating systems, announced this week that this glass of whiskey on…
(SPOILER ALERT: DON’T READ UNTIL YOU’VE WATCHED “SOUNDINGS.”) Ava, Ava, Ava. Slow down, girl. I can understand how much she wants out of the perilous situation in which she finds herself, but her method tonight aplexed me. She’d have been…
(SPOILER ALERT: DON’T READ UNTIL YOU’VE WATCHED EPISODE 4, “THE TRASH AND THE SNAKE.”) As far as whiskey goes, this week’s episode of “Justified” left us dry and high: Bourbon was abandoned in favor of marijuana and the cocaine under…
90 proof; 7 years old $29.99/750ml The story: Heaven Hill has changed the label on its Bernheim Wheat Whiskey to carry an age statement – the exact opposite of what some brands have done recently. When Bernheim was launched in…
With the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby just one day away, it’s time again to share my favorite mint julep recipe, attributed to Henry Watterson, the colorful and sometimes controversial editor of The Courier-Journal: “Pluck the mint gently from…
Last night was last call for Season 5 of “Justified.” From a Whiskey Watch perspective, the best sighting during “Restitution” was the Elmer T. Lee in my own personal glass, above; otherwise, we were limited to two Maker’s Mark commercials….
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