VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In recent years, long-defunct whiskey brands have gotten a new lease on life , legacy producers have debuted celebrated one-offs and new permanent line extensions , and Scotch makers have upped their cask-aging ante to unprecedented heights.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Scotch , Whiskey Oban Hot Toddy Ingredients 4 oz. Whiskey Old Fashioned Tea by Mixologist Eric Ribeiro Ingredients 1.25 Whiskey Johnnie Walker Hot Toddy Ingredients 1.5 Add water to a brandy glass with Johnnie Walker Black Label, lemon juice, and honey. Scotch , Whiskey Buchanan’s Buchanelazo Ingredients 1.5

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Our judging panel comprised of working bartenders, bar managers, bar owners, bar consultants and, more importantly, top influential Chilled 100 members with on-premise buying power, who are ready to judge, rate, and award your spirit’s brand. Ramona Jackson Atlanta, Georgia Expertise: Whiskey. Enter now and save !

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The Whiskey Wash

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Credit: Bushmills Irish Whiskey Bushmills Irish Whiskey has released the second round of its Private Reserve Limited Release series. Consisting of four vintage single malt whiskeys with various experimental cask finishes, the whiskeys showcase the versatility of Bushmills single malt.

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

In cocktail bars, bartenders are creating their own spin on classic cocktails. With being whiskey based and spirit forward, there are many high-end whiskey options to choose from, whether it be bourbon, rye, Irish, or local whiskey. Today, it is usually made with rye whiskey.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2023

FAT-WASHING When it comes to fat-washing cocktails, owner, and bar director at NYC’s NR, Shigefumi (Shige) Kabashima, believes the old-school method is still around simply because it’s logical. In 2000, I started in the industry as a bartender at Kirin’s Hartland Bar in Tokyo.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Scotch , Vodka , Whiskey The Warrior Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Top with root beer and garnish with Little Debbie Nutty Buddy Bar and 3 star anises. Brandy , Fortified Wine , Vodka Enjoy The Silence Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Lime Juice 3 Dashes Scrappy's Celery Bitters Preparation Combine liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Founders Albert Peters, Edwin Pooley, and Edgar McClain began making fruit wine and brandies from the abundance of fruit in the region, taking only a brief hiatus to make industrial alcohol for the war effort. What is next for HRD?

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VinePair

AUGUST 6, 2024

While the South may get most of the glory for its role in American whiskey production, the northern part of the United States is home to some of the most dynamic distilleries to emerge in this modern spirits-making era. Stoll & Wolfe played a vital role in re-establishing modern-day Pennsylvania rye , a historic style of this whiskey.

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Drinkhacker

MARCH 11, 2025

While single vintage brandy releases continue apace, the brand is now anchored by a flagship brandy-influenced blend, 1928. This blend of rye whiskey, Calvados, and vintage Armagnac is the cornerstone of a new single barrel program (more on that later). And I went to a state school. You wont be disappointed.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 4, 2024

A recent visit here took me to two upscale cocktail bars to sample the city’s latest in drinkdom. Read on for the boozy details on Christina’s Shoreditch and Scarfes Bar. Plenty of folks popped in and out of the bar for a quick pre- or post-dinner tipple — and there’s no standing on ceremony here.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the Improved Whiskey Cocktail , a variation on the Whiskey Cocktail, which was a predecessor to the Old Fashioned. You take a simple cocktail structure — whiskey! The biggest choice you’ll have to make is which brandy to use. But the basic idea remains the same.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 21, 2024

The Whiskey Sour is a classic American cocktail. You will find the concoction on almost every cocktail bar menu in the United States, and the drink also has a huge fanbase across the rest of the world. Discussing the history, recipe, and variations of this timeless cocktail, this is the ultimate guide to the Whiskey Sour.

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The Whiskey Wash

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Image via Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey & PR News Wire Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey lovers will soon have a new holiday destination in Apsen, with the opening of Stranahan’s Whiskey Lodge being announced on 20th February. And so, the two established Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey.

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VinePair

AUGUST 6, 2024

Like the rest of the country, the whiskey trails in the Western part of the United States are vast and full of options to explore. Drawing from local ingredients and influenced by local microclimates, the distilleries — and the whiskeys they make — reflect a relaxed and creative attitude common in this part of the country.

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 14, 2024

Photography by Chris Pearce, drinks styled by Cherish Wilkie at Bar Louise 135 Enmore Road, Enmore @barlouise_enmore With our recent interview with Mikey Nicolian, what better time to showcase some of the drinks from his other bar operation, Bar Louise? The cocktail list is small and concise. The food offering is fantastic.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 28, 2024

Founded in 2014 by the Wine Country Network, the American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition is an annual double-blind tasting competition for bourbons and whiskeys from across North America. So, today, let’s work our way through the top ten scorers in the American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition 2023.

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VinePair

MARCH 14, 2024

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. All spirits must be American rye whiskeys. It must be a rye whiskey under the definition during the period in which it was bottled. Interviewees could only choose rye whiskeys they’ve personally sampled. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I used some softer flavors like a prickly pear brandy and Manzanilla, a grape-based fortified wine infused with fresh tarragon. If people are used to core spirits at their home bar — like vodka, gin, tequila or whiskey drinks — it might feel really new. “Rémy V is such a soft and pretty base,” she explains. “I

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A Bar Above

MAY 20, 2024

Table of Contents : Margarita Raspberry Lemonade Sparkler Daiquiri Sangria Whiskey Sour Punch Mocktails List of Bar Tools You’ll Need Photo courtesy of DesignPickle/stock.adobe.com The Classic Margarita The classic Margarita is one of the best celebratory cocktails you could offer your guests. Check out this recipe instead.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Old Landmark Bourbon (four-year-old, 86 proof, from Illinois); and Macy’s “40” Whiskey (a blend containing 40 percent Kentucky juice, 86 proof). It also sold two brands of in-house rye , two types of Scotch , a vodka , brandy , and several cordials. Van Winkle first provided liquid for multiple whiskey brands for The Berghoff.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Thanks to this versatility, apples pair well with almost any spirit, especially brown spirits like whiskey. There are also dozens of ways to work the fruit into libations with apple brandy, apple juice, syrups, or even fresh slices, though no one method is superior. Two final dashes of orange bitters bring balance and a citrusy edge.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

In our accustomed, crotchety “In my day we had to walk five miles through the snow, uphill each way” manner, we lamented the dearth of choices behind the bar back then, and how much things had changed. Great with a splash of soda, the noir could also brighten up a Manhattan (especially if you go 50:50 with a robust rye whiskey ).

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If I had to pick a single type of liquor that’s most underrated by home bartenders, it would be brandy — and American apple brandy in particular. Apple brandy was a favorite of America’s Founders, and you can still buy something branded as George Washington’s Apple Brandy from the Mount Vernon distillery.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Mix, who co-owns pan-Latin cocktail bar Leyenda in Brooklyn and literally wrote the book on Latin American spirits, has long championed the Peruvian grape distillate both as a versatile cocktail component and as a neat sipping spirit, and for good reason. And year after year, she’s disappointed. The Pisco Sour landed in the U.S.

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 4, 2024

Photography by Chris Pearce, drinks styled by Cherish Wilkie at Bar Louise 135 Enmore Road, Enmore @barlouise_enmore With our recent interview with Mikey Nicolian, what better time to showcase some of the drinks from his other bar operation, Bar Louise? The cocktail list is small and concise. The food offering is fantastic.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

My take on a sour- A Sweet Yet Tangy Thang Whiskey Sweet Thang by Anthony Wells - @a.wells Ingredients 2 oz. Red Wine , Whiskey Generational Wealth by Inez Goodwine - @freshnique Ingredients 2 oz. Red Wine , Whiskey Citrus Skyline Sour by Kayla Espinal - @the.mixologist.monarch Ingredients 2 oz. Edmonds Honor 1 oz.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 22, 2024

1 The first one takes the same split base/dual spirit Monte Carlo structure we saw in the Jacko’s End and the El Camino and applies it to apple brandy and peaty Islay Scotch. They’re delicious, easy, interesting cocktails you can make with bottles you might already have on your bar cart.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Ingredients such as apple brandy, pear liqueur and wintery spices add seasonal flair for drinks you can enjoy long after the ball has dropped and the holiday decorations are put away. cocktails 1 bottle Laird’s 7 ½ Year apple brandy 1 bottle St. Laird’s apple brandy ½ oz.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

She is the co-owner of Goodwater in Melbourne and the face and talent behind the cocktailing YouTube channel Behind the Bar. I expected that its story would be quite well documented, with perhaps a squabble over which exact bar in New Orleans had first mixed one, but instead, I opened a can of worms. How hard could it be?

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? 1 In addition to mezcal and rye, Cynar pairs exceptionally well with apple brandy , another underrated bottle that should be in every home bar. Short answer: Anything you want.)

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And it’s a story that results in one of my favorite clever drink variations — an apple brandy-forward riff on the Penicillin (a honey-ginger Scotch whisky sour) that I’ve never seen published anywhere. You’ll need bottles of apple brandy and Scotch whisky. I knew…I liked…whiskey…?

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

It may not be priced for well drinks at a bar, but home bartenders can pick it up for cocktails and your cocktail game will be infinitely improved by doing so. But tequila as an alcoholic beverage is more like wine than, say, whiskey; base ingredients matter more here. But vault over that bar it did.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 16, 2024

And now for something completely different… Playboy Spirits’ Rare Hare line specializes in ultra-luxe, ultra-expensive whiskeys, to date including a bourbon and an old Canadian bottling. But for whiskey aficionados, this island harbors a special secret: it’s a veritable Eden for small batch whiskies.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 1, 2024

And if you’re a whiskey fan, October is also a time to get excited about Elijah Craig’s Old Fashioned Week , which takes place from October 11th to the 20th. Known as the Father of Bourbon, it was his decision to age whiskey in charred oak barrels in 1798 that made a notable difference in whiskey making.

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 1, 2025

History Of The Duck Fart Cocktail A 70 year old woman, name unknown, walks into a bar* in Anchorage, Alaska in December, 1987 and asks bartender Dave Schmidt for a shot of tequila, followed by a B-52 and then a Grasshopper.* Another has him wearing a rubber ducky style duck bill that night while tending bar. One walks into a bar.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Whiskey Golden Flower by Brenda Riepenhoff - @briepenh Ingredients 2 oz. of whiskey, leaving at room temperature for two hours. Liqueur , Whiskey The Albius Latte by Terence Allen - @mixapothecary Ingredients 2 oz. Liqueur , Whiskey Honorable Mention by Jessie Marrero - @nevikittydrinks Ingredients 1 oz. Black) oz.

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