Rowan's Creek Bourbon Review & Mint Julep Recipe

By Wendell Brock at 1:28 PM on April 30, 2013

Rowan’s Creek is perfect for an intense, straightforward, gentlemen’s julep.  read more

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Maker's Mark to Decrease Its Alcohol Content Due to Rise in Global Popularity

By Logan Lockner at 10:15 AM on February 12, 2013

Southern writer Walker Percy once said, “The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the [alcohol] on the cortex but rather the instant of the whiskey being knocked back and the little explosion of Kentucky U.S.A. sunshine in the cavity of the nasopharynx.” For drinkers of the famously red wax-sealed bourbon brand Maker’s Mark, that little explosion just got a little smaller, as Quartz points out. The brand has announced that it will be reducing the alcohol content in the bourbon in order to compensate for the rising international popularity of the beverage....  read more

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Small-Batch Bourbon Review: Belle Meade

By Wendell Brock at 12:25 PM on February 4, 2013

Belle Meade is the handiwork of Charles and W.A. Nelson, great-great-great-grandsons of one Charles Nelson, a pre-Prohibition legend who, according to his progeny, made the first Tennessee whiskey.  read more

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Watershed Distillery Four Peel Gin

By Josh Jackson at 3:10 PM on January 9, 2013

The gin, made with a eight botanicals including juniper is sharp and flavorful. The juniper jumps out but so do other more floral and pine notes.  read more

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11 Great Microdistilleries on The Brooklyn Spirits Trail

By Jonah Flicker at 9:39 AM on January 8, 2013

Over the last decade, New York has passed several bills that have engendered the first distilleries in the state since Prohibition.  read more

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A $5,000 Whiskey? We Had To Taste It.

By Lane Wood at 5:26 PM on September 28, 2012

On the rooftop of the super-trendy Nomad hotel in NYC's Flatiron District, a few lucky whiskey enthusiasts gathered to get a taste of The Glenrothes Extraordinary Cask. If you want to get your hands on one, prepare to hand over a cool $5k.  read more

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Whiskey in a Can

By China Reevers at 2:53 PM on January 21, 2011

What could be better than whisky? Whisky in a can!...  read more

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