This isn’t our first trip down the Kilchoman Loch Gorm road. Back in September of 2016, we published a review of this whisky along with a dessert idea that was inspired by a West Coast Office Tweet which paired Islay whisky with vanilla ice cream and freshly cracked […]
The last month or so hasn’t been fun. There have been fun moments here and there but in general there has mostly been sadness, luckily waning. My sister, Marci, passed away in late April unexpectedly leaving me the last one of our nuclear family. Our relationship wasn’t always […]
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to attend the grand opening of a new brewery / restaurant in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia called Urban Village Brewing Company. Due to circumstances beyond our control (I am of course referring to The Benevolents and Our Urchins. […]
G-LO has been working the interwebz rather vigorously lately and the samples have been pouring in to the boozemail box. This has created a #FirstWorldProblem of sorts: We just have too much to drink and not enough time to drink it! I know, “Poor you!”. Anyway… A couple of […]
It’s been 4 years since we last attended Opening Tap (the OFFICIAL kick-off to the 10-day brewfest known the world over as Philly Beer Week), and in those 4 years, a couple things have changed… In January of this year, the Board of Philly Beer Week (PBW) announced […]
Way back in December of 2016, the good people at Single Cask Nation (SCN) announced that they would be launching a retail line of whiskies in 2017. In the initial announcement (dated 12/19/2016), they said that 4 whiskies would released. One month later (on 1/23/2017 to be more precise), […]
Below is all the news that’s fit to print about Philly Beer Week 2017 courtesy of our friends at Profile Public Relations and Philly Loves Beer… CHEERS TO 10 YEARS OF BEERS! PHILLY BEER WEEK (PBW) TO CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY The nation’s first, biggest and best Beer Week […]
With an actual high temperature of around 52 degrees and total rainfall of 2.06 inches, May 13, 2017 probably wasn’t the greatest day (from a weather perspective) to host an Outdoor Craft Beer Festival (i.e. Pour-A-Palooza #9), but when you have 81 breweries scheduled to bring 143 different […]
Many moons ago, I purchased a bottle of Tamdhu 10 for around $30 with the hope that I had found a value priced, age statement wearing, Single Malt Scotch Whisky. What I soon discovered AFTER making this purchase is that this was a bottling of what was left […]
Earlier this week, Sku of Sku’s Recent Eats accounced that after 10 years of blogging, he was calling it quits. Done. Finished. Finito. Unfortunately, Sku is NOT the Dread Pirate Roberts, and there is no farmboy named Westley waiting in the wings to take over his blog… Unlike […]