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Review: Darroze Armagnac (12 Year)

Posted in Armagnac, Brandy, Whiskey Reviews on May 7, 2015 | 5 Comments »

The online retailer Rueverte sent us this little sample of Darroze – Les Grands Assemblages 12 ans d’age over a year ago, and it just sat on the shelf the whole time because I didn’t really know what to do with it. It wasn’t a large enough of a sample to make cocktails with, and if […]

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Experimenting with Bluecoat Barrel Finished Gin

Posted in Creole Bitters, Getreide Kummel, Gin, Sage, Whiskey Reviews on May 7, 2015 | 2 Comments »

  Last week, we decided to get together with a few of our friends from Rocks or Neat and Whiskey Club to do some tasting and experimenting with the backlog of samples we’ve been sent by people. We just gathered up the booze and went out to buy a bunch of generic cocktail ingredients to have […]

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Bluecoat Barrel Finished Gin: A Teaser

Posted in Gin on April 29, 2015 | 1 Comment »

This week in gin: Philadelphia Distilling, one of our personal favorite distilleries (we may be a little biased) has released a limited edition barrel aged gin, and now they have the unenviable task of selling out of product in PLCB stores in order to stay on the shelves. We’ve got a whole load of things […]

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Review: SIA Scotch Whisky

Posted in Scotch, Whiskey Reviews on November 20, 2014 | 1 Comment »

New kid on the block and recent Kickstarter success SIA Scotch Whiskey is creator Carin Luna-Ostaseksi’s attempt to create a blend (50% Speyside, 40% Highland, 10% Islay) to appeal to a “modern palate,” or as I take it, people who think they don’t like Scotch because it smells like their grandfather. It is an interesting […]

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Philadelphia Magazine’s Whiskey Festival

Posted in Bourbon, Canadian Whiskey, Irish Whiskey, Rye, Scotch, Single Malt, Whiskey Club on October 24, 2014 | 6 Comments »

If I had to sum up last night’s Philadelphia Magazine Whiskey Festival at Lincoln Financial Field, it was a well-attended trade show for assorted alcohol. There was a smattering of solid whiskeys, and a few people there genuinely interested in talking about what they made, but for the most part, there was one trade show […]

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Our Man in Havana

Posted in Coconut Cream, Pineapple Juice, Rum, Spodee on October 6, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Our Man in Havana 1 oz Spiced Rum 1 oz White Rum 2 oz Pineapple Juice 1 oz Spodee 1 tbsp Coconut Cream Pour over crushed ice Shave nutmeg on top, garnish with mint NOTES: The folks over at Spodee sent us a bottle of their new white version to try out, so we thought we’d […]

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Whiskey Trip part 4: Four Roses Distillery

Posted in Bourbon, Rye, Whiskey Club on October 6, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The final distillery we visited was Four Roses. I’ve been a fan of the Single Barrel for a while (and unsuccessfully tried to get my hands on the 2014 special release all year long), so this was another I was looking forward to. Somewhat disappointingly, Four Roses doesn’t age on-site, so we got to see […]

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Whiskey Trip part 3: Buffalo Trace Distillery

Posted in Bourbon, Rye, Whiskey Club on July 8, 2014 | 5 Comments »

The third stop on the trip was to Buffalo Trace, producer of several of my favorite bourbons. We called in advance and were set up with a pretty great private tour of the inner workings of the distillery. It happened to be a Sunday and no one was actually working, which turned out to be fortunate for us in terms of […]

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Whiskey Trip part 2: Willett Distillery

Posted in Bourbon, Rye, Whiskey Club on June 25, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Next up, and just down the road from Heaven Hill was one I’d been really looking forward to: Willett Distillery. Occupying a strange middle ground between craft microdistillery and large producer, Willett places their emphasis on very specific small-scale methods that can only really be this closely controlled when making a more manageable amount of product. […]

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Whiskey Trip part 1: Heaven Hill Distillery

Posted in Bourbon, Whiskey Club on June 24, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Our first stop was the Heaven Hill Distillery. The largest family-owned, and second-largest holder of barreled bourbon in the world, clocking in at 1.5 Million 53-gallon barrels. According to Heaven Hill, bourbon came about when Elijah Craig had a barn fire that charred the inside of his barrels. After deciding to use the barrels anyway […]

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