Its turning cooler in Idaho.  The mornings are crisp and the leaves are beginning to turn.  I am always amazed at how quick it happens.  It was just last week I was wearing shorts to my kids football game, and this week I’m wondering if my fall jacket will be heavy enough by 8:00pm.  Those […]

Well the comment heard round the whiskey blog world was when I said I didn’t like Makers Mark, and that I thought it tasted like 89 octane ethyl.  Where do you go from there?  It’s not like I can take it back, my very first post where I reviewed a whiskey was for Makers Mark, […]

So by this point I have gotten a lot of bottles of bourbon in my cupboard.  Actually my wife and I discussed this weekend the need for me to get a locking cupboard to keep my “collection” in, and I think we have figured out that the cupboard in the garage will work nicely (too […]

Have you ever had something good happen when you were expecting something …um..not so good?  For example have you ever had your best friend come up to you and explain he needs you to go on a blind date?  That he has met the woman of his dreams only she wouldn’t go out with him […]

So I recently had a birthday.  The first one since Jim and I started this web site.  I’m amazed and surprised at how my brother and I starting this blog has begun to change my loved ones buying habits when it comes to my presents.  See at my size I’m not the easiest guy in […]

The Reverend Elijah Craig was a very principled man.  He was a Baptist minister that is credited with working with James Madison in 1777 to ensure that freedom of Religion was put into the Constitution of the United States.  He had a calling to spread God’s message to the west, so in 1781 he led his […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately learning about the virtues of Bourbon.  True this is a whiskey web site, and eventually I will branch out into different types of whiskey, but I have begun this journey with Bourbon whiskey and I have learned a great deal, and tasted some pretty awesome spirits.  To […]

The notion of a flag ship is an interesting concept.  A ship that bears the name of origin that represents the absolute best that a corporation, nation, or world power has to offer.  That seems to apply to just about every example except the bourbon industry. If you travel to New York City and stay […]

KNOB CREEK IS GONE!!!  For this year anyway.  It happens infreaquently, but it does happen.  A whiskey’s supply is out stripped by its popularity.  9 years ago the makers of Knob Creek thought their whiskey would be popular, but didn’t anticipate that it would take off like it has, and the entire concept of small […]

When I last wrote I had just completed my dinner and was headed into the Bar at Ernies Steakhouse to watch the Boise State/Oregon game.  Well we found a couple seats at the bar and put the game on the huge old tube TV sets that were suspended from the cieling like a couple of […]

So there are a couple of things that were I truly enjoy in Grangeville, Idaho outside my work that I am doing for the community.  One is Ernies Steakhouse.  Ernie got fed up with not being able to sell his organic grass fed beef on the open market as anything but regular cattle so he […]

So when your meetings are over in remote Idaho County and you have three hours to go until dinner and the Boise State/Oregon game, what do you do in Grangeville?  Well my first inclination is to find a bar and have a whiskey or brew.  Our project manager invited us to his favorite watering hole […]

OK…so I live in Idaho, but not all Idaho is created equal.  I had the unique experience of going from the largest metropolitan area of the state, Boise, to one of the least populous counties in America (1.8 people per square mile average) all in the same day.  And guess what,  the least populous place […]

Hell’s Turkey is right!  It is impossible to underestimate the impact of the right, or WRONG whiskey on a guys weekend.  I learned the hard way a  few months ago when I was put in charge of buying the hooch for a guys weekend in Sun Valley, Idaho. We stayed at my buddy’s condo, and […]

Thanksgiving when I was a little boy was always an adventure.  We were on the way to my Grandma’s house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Thanksgiving dinner and I remember the drive from Chicago sometimes felt like an eternity.  See my mother really didn’t get along with her in laws, but was always very pleasant once […]