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Pairing With Big Peat
The smoky, peaty whiskies of Scotland invite cigar pairings.
Cigar Pairing: Glen Grant 18 Year Old Scotch
Glen Grant, the Speyside single malt that is among the most popular of Scotch whiskies worldwide, now makes an expression old enough to buy itself a drink—at least in its homeland …
Cigar Pairing: Booker's Off Your Rocker Bourbon
It was the mid-1980s. The Bourbon industry had been on the skids since vodka's popularity overtook it in the 1970s. Single-malt Scotch was becoming the emblem of connoisseurship …
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 …