The Cooking Banana Cocktail
Plantains are never the stars of the show. The starchy cooking bananas are a lot like the malt that makes malt whisky. It takes a process to turn sweet.
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Review #122: Nikka Coffey Gin
Nikka Coffey Gin comes from the same massive Coffey stills that are used to make some of the company’s grain and malt whiskies. The gin is distilled rom a neutral corn base. Like Nikka’s Coffey Malt whisky, their gin is …
Review #121: Glengoyne 21
We liked the Glengoyne 10 so much we grabbed a bottle of its older brother. The 21 is aged in ex-sherry, and you get plenty of it on the nose and palate.
Review #120: Plantation Panama Old Reserve
Plantation rum from Panama, aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon, and finished in ex-Cognac.
Last Rites Cocktail
The Last Rites is only lightly sweet, and has that indescribable funk from passionfruit.
Rum Review #119: Plantation Fiji 2009
Plantation rum from the island of Fiji.ged 7 years in ex-bourbon in the tropics, and 2 years in ex-cognac in the tropics.
Review #118: Plantation 5 Year
Plantation hails from the island of Barbados the earliest rum producing region in the world. Today, Barbados is home to four rum distilleries: Mount Gay, the world’s oldest active rum company, West Indies Rum Distillery, Foursquare, and St. Nicholas Abbey. …
Review #117: Game of Thrones “House Lannister” Lagavulin
4/10. Nose: Smoke, banana bread, pink, short lived bubble gum that you get at a ballpark.
Palate: Honey, astringently oaky, smoke and waves of banana bread.
5 Recommended Single Malt Scotch Whiskies under $50
We’ve tried a few hundred single malts at this point, so we finally feel qualified to recommend whiskies. Before we get into the recommendations, few parameters:
- All the whiskies are readily available; nothing on the list is impossible to
Kavalan Vertical Tasting: Vinho Barrique, Manzanilla & Soloist Sherry
Today we're tasting the Kavalan Vinho Barique, The Manzanilla and Fino Sherry casks head to head. These are all high end whiskies from Kavalan, Taiwan's premier distillery.