Whiskey | cocktailista.com - Part 2

Whisky Explorers Club’s First Mystery Whiskies Arrive

Whisky Explorers Club’s First Mystery Whiskies Arrive

Intriguing, no? Four mini bottles encased in black velvet and each a sticker with a serial number on it (one upside down, just to mix it up). Intriguing, no? Four mini bottles encased in black velvet and each a sticker with a serial number on it (one...

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Drinking Scotch with Dalmore’s Richard Paterson

Drinking Scotch with Dalmore’s Richard Paterson

After spending some time with Tom Bulleit yesterday, I moved on to lunch with another whiskey world celebrity, Richad Paterson of Whyte & Mackay, which produces The Dalmore line of single malt Scotch whiskys, among other spirits. After spending...

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Drinking Bourbon with Tom Bulleit

Drinking Bourbon with Tom Bulleit

Bulleit bourbon is incredibly popular in San Francisco, and yesterday I got to spend a little time with the man behind the brand, Tom Bulleit. A Vietnam vet and reformed attorney, Bulleit waxed philosophical on his whiskey, an adaptation of a mid-1800s...

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Review/Preview: Maker’s 46 Bourbon from Maker’s Mark

Review/Preview: Maker’s 46 Bourbon from Maker’s Mark

When people drink bourbon (and they’re not drinking Jack Daniel’s), they turn to Maker’s Mark in droves. When people drink bourbon (and they’re not drinking Jack Daniel’s), they turn to Maker’s Mark in droves. Millions...

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Hangar One Vodkas

Hangar One Vodkas

Practically a next-door neighbor to Drinkhacker HQ, California’s own Hangar One has long been a hometown favorite vodka amongst those ’round these parts who can’t handle whiskey. Available in a straight version and three exotic flavors,...

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Parker’s Heritage Collection Golden Anniversary Bourbon Whiskey

Parker’s Heritage Collection Golden Anniversary Bourbon Whiskey

Malt Advocate ’s John Hansell called this whiskey the “ American Whiskey of the Year ” (20o9), a heavy honor from a man who samples hundreds of whiskies a year and certainly knows his stuff. I finally tracked down a bottle — not...

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Recipe: The Corned Beef Collins

Recipe: The Corned Beef Collins

St. Patrick’s Day is always good for dozens of recipe submissions from companies hopeful to have their (invariably green) cocktails featured here. None have come anywhere close to the audacity of Richard Blais’s concoction, which is reprinted...

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Knappogue Castle 1994 Master Distiller’s Private Selection Irish Whiskey

Knappogue Castle 1994 Master Distiller’s Private Selection Irish Whiskey

We were lucky enough to land one of just 1,100 bottles of Knappogue Castle’s 1994 Master Distiller’s Private Selection Irish whiskey, a single malt Irish — hand numbered and signed by the son of the distillery’s founder, Mark...

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Recipe: The Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Cocktail

Recipe: The Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Cocktail

Our friends at BourbonBlog.com came up with this one , to be “unveiled” at la.venue in New York on Saturday, January 30. It is presented here without comment. The Beer, Bourbon, & BBQ Cocktail Recipe from BourbonBlog.com’s Stephen...

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1921 Tequila Lineup

1921 Tequila Lineup

From the Jalisco highlands, 1921 is a line of 100 percent agave tequilas… plus a tequila liqueur. From the Jalisco highlands, 1921 is a line of 100 percent agave tequilas… plus a tequila liqueur. I tasted them all while trying to figure...

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