Chemistry of the Cocktail

What more is there to say about this bourbon that hasn't been said before? One of the classics of the American market, it has become eve...

Until pretty recently Henry McKenna Single Barrel went largely under the radar. While other single barrel bourbons flew off the shelves and ...

As most of the revival of scotch whisky focused on the abundant single malts available in the 1990s and early-2000s, blends continued to be ...

Pot stills are the oldest form of distillation and continue to be used across the world, but one of their main limitations is that the maxim...

People who become interested in scotch will invariably discover the seeming multitude of independent bottlers who buy spirit or mature casks...

This bourbon was bottled as part of Four Roses' Private Barrel Program , which allows retailers to select barrels from any of the ten re...

Four Roses has been one of the bourbon geek darlings over the last dozen years or so. There's the heartwarming story about how the disti...

After seeing this recipe , I knew I had to make it (albeit with a couple of tweaks). The Devereaux 1 oz bourbon 0.5 oz St. Germain 0.5 ...

Blanton's holds the distinction of being the first modern single barrel bourbon released as a regular expression. In the depths of the m...

While I feel like this idea has been discussed before, with tales of shortages and projections of exponential growth in sales and prices  ...

One belief that has been gaining ground in the whisk(e)y world over the last five years or so is that higher proofs, especially cask stren...

Rock Hill Farms is one of the single barrel bourbons distilled at Buffalo Trace using their 'high rye' mash bill. I got a sample o...

This drink comes from Tim Stookey of the Presidio Social Club in San Francisco via the 2008 holiday cocktail guide from Imbibe . A bit of a ...

On the heels of my guide to scotch whisky , I thought I would turn to something a little bit closer to home. While rum may have launched th...

This month's Mixology Monday theme is fortified wine , so for my first post I decided to dip into the variety I know best - sherry. T...

The last and final version (for a while) of the Improved Whiskey Cocktail from the series I've been posting . Improved Whiskey Coc...

Next up in a short series of posts of variations on the Improved Whiskey Cocktail , one that I decided to take in a rather different direct...