Three years ago, Uber rideshare service app purchased USA-based alcohol delivery service app Drizly for a whopping $1.1 billion. Uber is now experiencing a hangover and closing Drizly as of March 2024. Uber says that, instead, they will integrate alcohol delivery into their homegrown delivery service app, Uber Eats. Since the purchase, Drizly had operated […]
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UK-based actor and comedian Ricky Gervais [“The Office”] has become the latest celebrity to collaborate with a distillery – this time, UK-based [North Yorkshire] Ellers Farm Distillery – to promote products that will include a single malt whisky. With his investment, Gervais becomes co-owner of the distillery. B Corp-certified Ellers Farm Distillery’s current main claim […]
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A pair of popular Australian spirits producers – Mr. Black and Starward – have collaborated to create Double Cacao, a limited edition whisky and coffee-based liqueur. As their contribution to the collab, Mr. Black offers infused cacao nibs from Tanzania along with their coffee liqueur, which is then blended with Starward’s gold medal-winning Peated Finish […]
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Luxco-owned Ezra Brooks has added a pair of products to their line-up – a rye whiskey and a bourbon cream liqueur. Ezra Brooks 99 Straight Rye Whiskey contains a 51% rye mash bill, is bottled at 49.5% alcohol by volume [99 proof] and is said to offer notes of chocolate, leather and vanilla. Ezra Brooks […]
Scotland’s Isle of Islay is known for its distilleries, and construction will begin soon on the island’s 12th distillery near the shores of Laggan Bay. The Islay Boys, Donald MacKenzie and Mackay Smith, plan to build the new Laggan Bay Distillery across from Islay’s airport on the site of a former RAF World War II barracks. MacKenzie and Smith also own the island’s lone brewery, and plan to make Islay Ales part of the Laggan Bay development. We’ll catch up with Donald MacKenzie on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, Kentucky’s Bourbon community is coming together again to help Read More »
Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, even when the healers of history didn’t always know they were distilling alcohol when they made their potions. Some of those potions even sound a lot like today’s cocktails, and drinks writer Camper English has been studying the links between alcohol and medicine for his new book Doctors and Distillers. We’ll explore some of that history with him this week on WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, the American Craft Spirits Association has handed out its annual awards, and we’ll have the details. We’ll also get a preview of this September’s Kentucky Read More »
Bourbon liqueurs … you see them everywhere – cinnamon, maple, peach, cherry, etc. They’re so common and popular, you might think they’ve been around forever. But they haven’t. And little do most folks know, it all started with Jimmy Russell. Whil…
New York City-based Dominique Ansel Bakery has collaborated with Bailey’s Irish Cream liqueur and created a cocktail for the holiday season – the Bailey’s Swirl – Ansel’s recipe for hot chocolate incorporating the liqueur. Bailey’s Irish Cream – made in Ireland – is made with Irish whiskey, cream and cocoa and the Bailey’s Swirl Hot […]
Need inspiration for that special bottle? Looking for a last minute stocking filler? Absolutely no idea what to get for secret Santa? Well fear not, because the always publishable Whisky Exchange Christmas gift guide is…
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Jim Beam Bourbon Cream – a bourbon-based cream liqueur – has arrived in time for the holidays. Jim Beam Bourbon Cream combines cream liqueur with Beam’s flagship Kentucky straight Bourbon whiskey, is bottled at 15% alcohol by volume [30 proof] and is recommended as a lively addition to coffee or hot chocolate. Jim Beam Bourbon […]
