Chemistry of the Cocktail

An ongoing project is to explore blends that mimic the primary malts available to whisky conglomerates in Scotland. Edrington is the owner o...

One of the goals I've had in exploring blends is to see if I can replicate some of the blends that are already out there. While I don...

One of the main goals of in making blends is creating balance - carefully adding more flavorful malts to grain whisky. When that comes to pe...

This blended whisky came about as I was tossing things together. Hazelburn 8 Year Cask Strength and Signatory Tamdhu 8 Year Cask Strength ha...

While, as David D has pointed out , blending single cask releases is closer to how blends are actually made, I like to blend batch releases ...

My birthday whiskies from the last couple of years are just about finished, but I couldn't resist blending a bit of them together, esp...

After writing my post about blending whisky , I decided to try making a blend with a bit more precision. This is a roughly even (a millili...

Since the advent of the patent still in the mid-19th century, blends have reigned supreme in Scotland. While these days they may not always ...

I wasn't particularly fond of either of the whiskies going into this blend, so I ended up futzing around to see if there was a way to ...

After trying some blends made with Russell's Reserve rye and Lemon Hart 151, I decided to see if I could improve them by using a more r...

These blends came out of an experiment I did several years ago with Russell's Reserve rye and El Dorado 12 Year rum. I enjoyed it quite...

In the vein of High West's Campfire whiskey , a blend of bourbon, rye, and single malt whisky, I tossed together a Canadian 100% rye wi...

After trying both Bunnahabhain 12 Year and Ledaig 10 Year , I was very curious to see how they would work together. Bunnahabhain has rich s...

After retasting Glemorangie's line of cask finished whiskies earlier this year, I had a bit left over in each bottle. Since my feeling ...