The first of this week’s new releases features Glen Grant. Glen Grant has introduced the oldest permanent addition to its range with a new 21-year-old… Read More
Ardbeg
The New “Old Bushmills Distillery”
Colum Egan had a unique challenge when presented with the opportunity to build a new Bushmills distillery that would complement the venerable existing distillery: take… Read More
Has Irish Whiskey’s Renaissance Started Yet?
Much has been made of the boom in Irish whiskey over the last decade, but one industry veteran says that boom is only the foundation… Read More
Single Malts Need Blenders, Too
Unless you’re drinking a single cask bottling, every whisky you drink has been prepared by a team of blenders. That goes for single malts, too,… Read More
County Cork: One Family, One Farm, One Distillery
The Scullys of County Cork have been farming the same land for nine generations over 350 years, but only in the last few years have… Read More
Brother’s Bond: A Bourbon “Bromance”
Actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder discovered their friendship and a mutual love of Bourbon on the set of “The Vampire Diaries” television series. Once… Read More
To Your Health!
Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, even when the healers of history didn’t always know they were distilling alcohol when they made… Read More
“Make It a Double” with Author Shelley Sackier
We all have our own whisky stories to tell, and author Shelley Sackier is sharing hers in the new book “Make It a Double.” She’s… Read More
Happy Hour Live with Steve Beal, David Blackmore, Ewan Morgan, and Owen Martin (Episode 894: September 1, 2021)
Make sure your battery’s charged for this one, since we spent nearly two hours talking the other night with longtime Scotch Whisky and Bourbon ambassdors… Read More
Rye is Rye, Right? Not So Fast… (Episode 867: April 19, 2021)
Whisky lovers can probably name at least a few varieties of barley commonly used to make single malts, but rye? Rye doesn’t get the same… Read More
An Anniversary Celebration…One Year Late (Episode 866: April 12, 2021)
Bourbons Bistro had everything ready to go for its 15th anniversary dinner in April…of 2020. Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the Louisville landmark to… Read More
Live Whisky Events Are Returning…Are We Ready? (Episode 864: March 28, 2021)
Virtually every major whisky event worldwide in the past year has been cancelled, postponed, or gone virtual because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, live events… Read More