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Cigar Pairing: Dogfish Head Bière de Provence
What happens when a brewer adds herbs usually found in southern French cuisine to a malt-forward farmhouse ale with a higher-than-usual alcohol content? You get a brew that's not …
Cigar Pairing: Glengoyne Cask Strength
Glengoyne, the Scotch distillery that has long touted itself as "The authentic taste of malt whisky untainted by peat smoke," can now claim to be uncorrupted by added water, …
Cigar Pairing: J. Henry Patton Road Reserve Cask Strength Bourbon
While the craft movement has brought us novel takes on whiskey, most have fallen into two categories. The first is the distiller who procures a still and makes their own spirit. …
Cigar Pairing: Four Roses Elliott’s Select Barrel Strength Bourbon
Another whiskey release signals the inevitable changing of the guard among distilleries as Four Roses Bourbon presents its first limited-edition whiskey under master distiller …
Cigar Pairing: Bruichladdich Octomore 7.4 Scotch Whisky
The single malt with the ominous-sounding sobriquet "the world's most heavily peated whisky" is back. This time Bruichladdich's Octomore presents its oldest whisky to date and …
Cigar Pairing: Bulleit Bourbon Barrel Strength
Bulleit Bourbon is introducing its fourth variation since its high-rye mash bill was first distilled almost three decades ago. For this one the recipe is unchanged, but the …
Cigar Pairing: Crown Royal Noble Collection—Cornerstone Blend Whisky
Few are the whisky blenders who reveal much about the components that go into their final products. They either choose not to or can't because the mixture changes as they chase an …
Cigar Pairing: Laphroaig Lore Scotch
It's a tall order to compress 200 hundred years of know-how into a bottle of whisky, but that was the task for Laphroaig master distiller John Campbell as the Islay malt continues …
Cigar Pairing: Zafra 30 Master Series Rum
Zafra, the Panamanian superpremium rum with a name that means "harvest," is now reaping another milestone with a 30-year-old bottling, little more than a half decade after it …