Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead? Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) to Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid), “Christmas Vacation” (1989)
U.S. distilled spirits exports topped $1 billion in 2011 for the fourth straight year. Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey made up more than $700 million of that amount. Statistic from a Kentucky Distillers’ Association report cited in a Business First…
If you’re getting tobacco or grapefruit or whatever in my bourbon, I must be doing something wrong. Good bourbon should taste like good bourbon! Parker Beam, master distiller for Heaven Hill
People come to Woodford Reserve and Jim Beam and Evan Williams because these are brands that their family has enjoyed for generations, and they want to ‘come home’ – to see where it’s made and walk in the footsteps of…
The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…
I am quite sure that we are the only store in America where you can buy a gun, country ham, beer, and a pound of C4 plastic explosive. With the proper credentials, of course. Patrick Hayden, owner of Keene’s Depot…
The literary critic and language expert H.L. Mencken put together his own list of synonyms for the word ‘drunk.’ They included: snooted, stewed, jugged, jagged and pifflicated. From “Our Longing for Lists,” an op-ed piece in the Sept. 2 New…
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) Dorothy Parker, writer and poet born this day in 1893.
