I thought about this on my way in today.  I saw that someone found our site by googling the question “Is drinking on the weekend bad for you?”  It got me thinking that there are a lot of questions that I sometimes wonder about, and moreover wonder about how you all feel about certain things, […]

It has come to my attention that a lot of the beer drinkers on this blog do not enjoy whiskey like they do beer.  I think this is a shame, as many of the barrel flavors that many beers now have come from using whiskey barrels and integrating the flavors of the barrel and the […]

There has been a lot of talk about beer versus wine already, and my thought here today is not to rehash the subject, but last week I was stuck in a quandary.  I wanted beer, but there was no good craft brew to be had, so I ended up drinking a lot of wine.  Now, […]

As many of you know, I have not been real keen on Whisky (without the “e”) or Scotch Whisky as we call it here in the States.  This has to do with an incident I had in College which has made the strong peaty flavor of whisky off putting for me.  But through this blog, […]

Science has run mad!  You need not look any further than right here for conclusive proof that some chemists should be tarred, feathered, shot, then hung.  Enter James Gilpin…Mad Scientist.  I don’t even really know how to get into this topic.  It is just so wrong on so many levels.  Maybe the medical angle.  See […]

Well it finally has happened, researchers have figured out how to make fuel for automobiles from the remnants of whiskey production!  It seems like a no-brainer, especially with some of the higher proof stuff, its flamable and some of it tastes like jet fuel, but now its official. In this article, Researchers at Edinburgh Napier […]

I was trolling around the internet for my next post this morning and came across an amazing article on About.com.  It explains the differences between Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, American Whiskey (including, Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, and Blended American Whiskey {Blech!}) and Canadian Blended Whiskey (Double Blech!).  This answers A LOT of questions I […]

Well here we go!  Our first remote broadcast, and our first one where Jim and I will actually be face to face!  As some of you know Jim and I live across the country from each other, he in Jersey, and me in Idaho.  Well Tomorrow Jim will be escorting our Mother out here to […]

Thank goodness the weekend is upon us!  It’s been a long week around here and I’m looking forward to a little R&R.  Even more than that, I’m looking forward to a tasting party being held by my pals over at Manor House Brewing.  It’s always a casual affair, with a predefined beer tasting menu and, […]

It finally happened!  After 25 years of abstinence I have to abstain no longer.   There is a story here of college-aged overindulgence.  See I used to drink fizzy yellow beer like everyone else.  My beer I drank to impress was Michelob, but the standard in the dormatory was Old Style.  I grew tired (at a very […]

Well as some of you know last week we began our podcasting for the Beer and Whiskey Brothers.  The shows will be available soon through iTunes but there is a bit of a delay because iTunes has to listen to and approve the first one, then we should be able to post immediately after they […]

I know it’s the 4th weekend so many of you are probably taking off early today, so here it is for the weekend!  It is Independence day weekend and it is typically celebrated with friends and family by barbecuing and blowing stuff up, hopefully not the family cat!  The reason I say this is it […]

Keith Wood is a Scotch whisky expert who runs the aptly-named site Whisky Emporium.  As we’re more whiskey with an “e” experts around here (you know, the stuff from Kentucky, not the Isle of Islay), Keith pinch hits from time to time when it comes to questions of Scotch.  In this case, Keith schools us […]

As you can see from the name of this site, we like to talk about whiskey with an “e” around here, focusing on the wonders of American distilling.  But some folks are more worldly than us, and their interests in booze stretch far across the Atlantic.  They want to know more about Scotch whisky, or […]