May 2023

OHLQ Announces Whiskey Gold Rush Event at Select Stores

The Ohio Department of Liquor (OHLQ) has announced what they are calling the Whiskey Gold Rush event which is a lottery to win the chance to purchase a bottle of Blanton’s Gold Edition Bourbon Whiskey. This event started at 9:00 A.M. on May 24, 2023 an…

Book Review: Noir Bar

By Richard Thomas I’m often surprised when trends and fads don’t carry more people down what should be obvious path. For example, many say that the TV show Madmen helped drive the modern cocktail renaissance. Keeping that in mind, one wonders why this pairing didn’t spark more interest in film noir. True, the TV show …

Podcasters Release Second Batch Of Bourbon

Pursuit Spirits has announced the re-release of its Pursuit United Oak Collection Bourbon Finished with Toasted American and French Oak with Batch #4CD. The formula was developed by Master Blender Ryan Cecil, who perfectly balances the flavors of the oak finishes through a double blending process. The Oak Collection is an ongoing series of curated …

Isle of Harris To Release Inaugural Malt This Autumn

Isle of Harris Distillers Ltd. is proud to announce the release date for its long-awaited Single Malt Scotch Whisky, The Hearach, named after the Scottish Gaelic name for a native of Harris. A private event to celebrate ‘the first dram’ at the distillery in Tarbert will be live-streamed at harrisdistillery.com/behere on Friday 22nd September 2023 at …

Betty Buzz Flies To Wrexham

Tonic and mixer brand Betty Buzz has flown across the pond and “officially” been named as an official sponsor of the popular Welsh-based Wrexham Association Football Club (AFC) for the 2023-24 season. Wrexham was a team in the UK’s National League that gained worldwide notoriety after being purchased by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney […]

Tommyrotter Bourbon Review

Tommyrotter Bourbon, from Tommyrotter Distillery in Buffalo, NY, is a blend of 3 MGP bourbons finished in cabernet barrels for 3 months. So what’s it like, and what about that name? Read on to find out!
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Bunnahabhain Feis Ile and others

Bunnahabhain ‘Toiteach A Dha’ (46.3%, OB, +/-2022)Bunnahabhain ‘Feis Ile 2023’ (51.2%, OB, Canasta Cask Matured, +/-2023)Bunnahabhain 10 yo 2012/2022 ‘Monuments’ (43%, Signatory Vintage, Kirsch Import, 1st fill sherry butt, cask #900778)Bunnahabhain 13…

Another New Distillery for Campbeltown (Episode 1006: May 28, 2023)

At one time, Campbeltown was Scotland’s whisky capital with more than 35 distilleries. That number dwindled to just three over the years, but now, planning approval is being sought for up to three new distilleries. The latest project is the Witchburn Distillery to be built on the former RAF Macrihanish site, and we’ll talk with project manager and master distiller Andrew Nairn on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. We’ll also hear from Beam Suntory’s Daryl Haldane following the auction Friday of a one-of-a-kind Bowmore single malt to raise money for projects on Islay. In the news, Stirling Council has rejected plans Read More »

Remus Gatsby Reserve Bourbon Review

By Andrew Graham Rating: B I have become quite a fan of most of what’s in the George Remus portfolio. We’ve talked about Remus here before, but in short, it is one of two in-house brands of MGP, the distillery on the Indiana-Kentucky border that’s more commonly associated with large-scale contract distilling. What’s easy to …

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