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The Good Life : Drinks
Bowmore Leaves the Naming to You
Drinkers are used to naming their brand at the bar, but not often do they get the chance to actually put a name on the bottle. Yet that’s what the...more
Posted: April 27, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Burgeoning Bitters
A decade ago, the joke in the bartending community was that your bottle of Angostura Bitters would outlast your marriage. Flash forward 10 years, and...more
Posted: April 20, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Wild Turkey Brings a New Rye to the Flock
Wild Turkey’s associate master distiller Eddie Russell has weighed in with Wild Turkey 81 Rye, a counterpart to the Wild Turkey 81 Bourbon he...more
Posted: April 13, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Rhône Whites
Red wine and steak. Red wine and cigars. Red wine and just about anything grilled. It seems hard to beat red wine. Heck, some even say that “all...more
Posted: April 6, 2012 By James Molesworth
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Oh, Canada! A Look at Whiskies from The Great White North
All you have to do is flip on the tube to see that yesteryear adored Canadian whisky. On HBO’s "Boardwalk Empire," a series set in Prohibition,...more
Posted: March 30, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Unibroue’s Grand Reserve 17—A Beer for the Ages
When Unibroue first released the beer that would ultimately become Grand Reserve 17 back in 2007, beer connoisseurs, citing the brew’s complexity...more
Posted: March 23, 2012 By Andrew Nagy
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Whisky with a French Accent
The country that gave us Cognac and Armagnac has made some notable forays into foreign-sounding spirits of late: vodka (Grey Goose and Ciroc) and gin...more
Posted: March 9, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Knob Creek Comes Through the Rye
Jim Beam’s superpremium Knob Creek is branching out with a new expression—this time a rye—fashioned by the seventh-generation distiller Fred...more
Posted: March 2, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Wine-Barrel Matured Irish Whiskey Debuts
Nobody ever accused Ireland of making great wines, but one product for which it is renowned—whiskey—just got a little more interesting with some...more
Posted: February 24, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Woodford's New Bourbon Doubles the Oak
How do you make an already excellent Bourbon better? According to Chris Morris, the master distiller at Brown-Forman’s Woodford Reserve Distillery,...more
Posted: February 17, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Courvoisier's Bold Cognac Statement
Most of us are not in the habit of describing Cognac as bold, but if C by Courvoisier is any indication, we may want to get used to it. The...more
Posted: February 10, 2012 By Jack Bettridge
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Dogfish Head Turns Wine into Beer
Sam Calagione and the folks at Dogfish Head Brewery are once again defying beer logic, this time with Noble Rot, a beer brewed with spicy Belgian...more
Posted: February 3, 2012 By Andrew Nagy
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