Every once in a while a story comes along that gets you so conflicted that you really don’t know how to approach it, so you don’t.  This is what happened to me yesterday.  I was combing my usual sources for a post I could put together yesterday when I came across the story I’m about […]

I’ve been reading a lot about the Artisan Whiskey movement lately.  It seems like almost every state has some sort of Artisnal Spirits industry that is in some stage of development.  This all came to a head today when I read that Texas is thinking of putting together their own Bourbon Trail like the original […]

There’s a new…I mean old…no, new bourbon in town.  Early times a brand owned by Brown Forman is re-entering the bourbon market.  Probably best known as the distiller of Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey Brown Forman also distills quite a lot of other spirits, including Early Times Kentucky Whiskey.  Early Times has been part of the […]

Don and I fired up our cheap Logitech microphones once again to talk about one of our favorite things – libations that have spend time in barrels! We review two selections from New Holland Artisnal Spirits, including their awesome Brewer’s Whiskey (Don drank all 375ml in a single sitting!).  We also review Firestone 14 Anniversary […]

Well it’s the first weekend of the last couple of dozen without any football, unless you include the Pro Bowl, which I don’t. I’m going to take full advantage of my freedom from football to brew up an Imperial Stout this weekend, which should be ready just in time for the next football season.  If […]

I took a look back to see just how many times I have posted from the Super 8 hotel in Grangeville, Idaho, and believe it or not this is my 9th time posting from this hotel.  Well like John Candy in Splash, when I find something that works I stick with it!  What’s even a […]

I don’t know about you, but my wife has been very good about my blogging.  She has put up with the time it takes to do it, she has put up with the expense associated with it, and she has put up with the…well drinking.  See she isn’t much of a drinker herself.  Oh she […]

Think back to about 15 months ago when there was a shortage of Knob Creek Bourbon.  Some say it was a manufactured crisis as some areas had plenty and never ran out and other places didn’t have any on the shelves for almost 6 months.  We talked about it here.  Well, that is ancient history […]

Time to roll out the barrel, or barrels might be more correct.  Jim and I will be putting together another in our series of podcasts this week, and our theme is drinking stuff that came from barrels. One segment that we haven’t done in a while is viewer mail. This is your opportunity to ask […]

There was a time in the history of spirits that the can was the sole receptacle of fizzy yellow beer.  Sure they had it in bottles too, but beer in a can was a lager, or perhaps a pilsner and it was made by a few huge breweries.  So the can got a bad name.  That […]

…exactly what many of us have been doing all along.  According to a recent study by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, the best hangover cure is aspirin and coffee.  I’d add a big greasy breakfast to that as well, but according to the study it doesn’t make a difference. And they call themselves scientists!  

I love Jimmy Russell.  Yes it is a bonified mancrush!  I mean, how can you not love a man that has spent his life making great bourbon for the masses?  Jimmy, for those of you who don’t know, is the Master Distiller at Wild Turkey bourbon distillery, where he has been making great bourbon since […]

I’ve been under the weather lately with a bug that just won’t let go.  It started as a head cold, turned into a sinus thing, and then got bored with my nose and decided to check out my lungs.  It’s not anything that’ll kill me (I’m with Jim Henson on this), but it’s annoying to […]

Lately I’ve been doing some re-discovering of many of the whiskeys I have in the bunker.  That is a big benefit of being the brother that does the bulk of the whiskey reviews, once you do the review you still have lots of whiskey left for sipping and enjoying later.  I currently have about 30 […]

Well it is January and it is one of the happiest and saddest months for pro football.  If you are  football nuts like Jim and I you are happy because the playoffs are here, and if your team is in them so much the better, and if they didn’t make it, so what it is […]