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On a recent trip to Kress Liquors, I picked up a bottle of Firestone Walker Fifteenth Anniversary Ale. The tag on the shelf indicated that the bottle is rated 98 out of 100 so I was looking forward to another great Firestone product. I had had the Double Jack and the […]
Mark Reynier of Bruichladdich Speaks Out About The Bruichladdich Buyout On July 16 we asked for your opinion about the proposed Bruichladdich buyout by Remy Cointreau. As of this writing, 80% of you went with “It’s not personal. It’s just business.” . The people have spoken and they […]
Last Thursday night, The Alemonger invited me over for a tasting of his recent Craft Beer purchases from Trader Joe’s. We are no strangers to Trader Joe’s at the G-LO residence, and go there every so often to purchase their unique and usually fine quality food offerings, so […]
In mid May, I received a press release from a PR firm regarding a a new Crown Royal whisky expression called XR (Extra Rare). After a very brief email exchange, the PR firm agreed to send me a sample of this whisky for an upcoming review. Last Wednesday, […]
Scotch Malt Whisky Society Unveils World’s 1st Interactive Whisky Magazine for iPad The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) has unveiled a fully interactive iPad version of its award-winning members’ magazine Unfiltered – the first of its kind on Apple’s global Newsstand platform. As well as offering some previously […]
In May, G-LO had worked The Dalmore’s UK PR firm for samples of their core range which includes the 12, 15, Cigar Malt, and 1263 King Alexander III expressions. Thankfully, their UK press agent was very kind and offered to pass along G-LO’s request to The Baddish Group (their US PR […]
On July 9th, Mark Reynier, founder and Managing Director of Bruichladdich, made the following announcement via Twitter: To say that this unleashed a torrent of comments from across the worldwide Whisky community would be an understatement. Poor Mark quickly learned the pitfalls of full disclosure and appears to […]
Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant Hosts Wilmington Beer Week WILMINGTON, DE – Head Brewer Brian Finn from Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant (710 Justison Street, 302-472-2739) is thrilled to announce his events for the 2nd annual Wilmington Beer Week, held Saturday, July 14 through Saturday, July 21. Key […]
“Since you’ll never get Charlize, you may as well have that Cerise…” – Mrs. G-LO After the boys went to bed this past Tuesday night, Mrs. G-LO did some channel surfing and stumbled upon a little film called Two Days in the Valley which we saw in the […]
The “Regrettably Dry Town” of Haddonfield, NJ – On Thursday, July 5th, The Wookie, Limpd, and I (unfortunately, The ROK was unable to make it) headed over to WhiskyCast Central, i.e. Mark Gillespie’s home in Haddonfield, NJ, to tape an episode of the WhiskyCast Virtual Tastings. This would […]
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