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Review #4: AD Rattray Cask Islay

Tastes likes it noses. There’s a light bandage component weaved in with honeysuckle, cantaloupe, and lemon. The taste is rather delicate for an Islay.

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Interview: Dave Pickerell, Distilling Savant

Master Distiller at Whistlepig

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Around the World Cocktail Conference Cocktails

2018 San Antonio Cocktail Conference

Visiting the San Antonio Cocktail Conference

Cocktails

Friday Cynar Negroni

This bitter Negroni is the best way to jump start the weekend

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Cocktails

Lovely Bunch of Pink Coconuts

Twin vodkas make a lovely pink cocktail

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Cocktails

The Aftershock

Cocktail featuring faultline and coffee liquor.

Cocktails

Liquid Therapy

Brandy sour with trio of fruit flavors

Pink cocktail with a lemon garnish next to a bottle of St. George Raspberry Brandy

Cocktails

Drunken Raspberry

Refreshing Summer Drink with Raspberry

Kavalan Vertical Tasting: Vinho Barrique, Manzanilla & Soloist Sherry
2020-09-27
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. […]
Mask Up Cocktail Recipe
2020-08-10
Original, quarantine appropriately garnished cocktail featuring Leidaig Scotch and Sweet Vermouth. […]
Getting Lost in the Woods
2020-08-03
This drink comes from a bar in Lithuania, by way of /u/seanloreaux2 on Reddit. The original calls for 2 oz Oban, 0.5 oz pine infused simple syrup, 0.25 oz Fernet and 0.25 oz peated scotch (marked as optional but the more peat the merrier!) […]
Review #116: Glen Scotia Campbeltown 2019 Rum Cask Finish
2020-07-12
I didn't find out until posting our review to […]
Mundo Perdido Cocktail
2020-07-09
It's no secret that we're huge fans of Smugglers' […]
Review #115: Ledaig 18 Year Batch 2 Sherry
2020-07-07
I have a fondness for Ledaig and Oban that mostly […]
Review #114: Ruadh Mhor 10 (Single Cask Nation)
2020-07-05
Rounding out a round of Single Cask Nation sample reviews with a ten year old bottling of Single Cask Rudah Mhor. This is a peated expression from the Glen Turret distillery in Perthshire. […]
Review #113: Aultmore 8 Year (Single Cask Nation)
2020-06-28
Reviewed this 8 year old bottling of the Speyside distillery, bottled by Single Cask Nation. 6/10. […]