Many rum enthusiasts seem to fall on one side of the dark rum or white rum line. White rum is aged in stainless steel and generally offers a cleaner, fierier taste. They are the most popular inclusion in fruit cocktails like mai tai, daiquiris, or simple syrup and rum drink…
Finding the best Kentucky bourbon is like finding the best single malt Scotch – it’s entirely subjective and based on a wide variety of factors including flavor, taste, aroma, price, and accessibility. Kentucky is bourbon country, and despite other regions – such as Tennessee, Colorado, and even New York –…
The Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 was a set of legal regulations created by the US Government to standardize and authenticate the quality of American distilled alcoholic beverages, especially bourbon, wheated, and rye whiskey. Prior to the time the Bottled in Bond act was legislated the American whiskey market was being…
Seattle’s Copperworks Distilling Company has released an American Single Malt Whiskey distilled from peated malt that was created with peat sourced from Washington State. The peat, which due to its plant materials offers a markedly different flavor from Scotch peat, was sourced from the only peat bog in Washington that can be commercially harvested. “We’re excited to release a…
Buying gifts for whiskey lovers need not be boring. Sure, a bottle of rye or a cheeky single malt from Islay will never be laughed at knocked back, but you do have plenty of interesting options to impress the whiskey drinker in your life. Here are 20 gift ideas that…
