Booze Education: Giving Advice To The Next Generation Of Whisk(e)y Lovers
At around 2AM Monday morning, a young college student in Philadelphia (we’ll call him AR) sent the following email to The Hip Flask and I:
At around 2AM Monday morning, a young college student in Philadelphia (we’ll call him AR) sent the following email to The Hip Flask and I:
The Wookie posted a rather spooky photo of The Balvenie’s GoldenCask 14 Single Malt Scotch Whisky yesterday. In his post, he mentioned that he would eventually follow up his photo with an actual review of this whisky. Ater sending The Wookie a quick note about his photo yesterday afternoon, […]
BOOOOOZE …. with Halloween coming up I think a spirit has possessed my spirits. Guys (and gals) do silly stuff after a couple of drinks and this is a perfect example. Take four guys, several bottles of Single Malt, and a headlamp, and you get a haunted, glowing […]
Every once in awhile, blogging has its perks… On August 5th, I received the following email from our friends at Master of Malt:
Our dear friends at The Balvenie recently launched a series of videos on You Tube called “The Balvenie Whisky Academy”. Below is a video featuring David Stewart, Malt
As I mentioned in my review of the Nikka Whisky From The Barrel, I recently had the opportunity to help Mark Gillespie of WhiskyCast with a new project called WhiskyCast Virtual Tastings. In addition to his weekly WhiskyCast podcast, Mr. Gillespie plans to gather four listeners per month […]
While it’s nice to be my mother-in-law’s favorite son-in-law (interestingly enough, I am also her ONLY son-in-Law), this dubious honor comes with an occasional string attached. This past February, my in-laws asked me to pick them up in New York City after their 10-day Caribbean cruise on the […]
Remember that bottle of Laphroiag 18 that I told you about last week? The one that I purchased with the cash that I received for Father’s Day? What I neglected to tell you was that I also picked up a bottle of Highland Park 12 during this particular […]
Apparently, July 27th is National Scotch Whisky Day. At least that’s what people are saying on Twitter and
Whenever the family asks me what I want for either (a) Christmas, (b) my birthday, or (c) Father’s Day, there is a very good chance that I will say whisk(e)y. Although I occasionally get some moaning and groaning (“Whisky? Again?” is what they usually say), they eventually realize […]