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Whisky Reviews 

Review #50: St. George 35th Anniversary

For our 50th whisk(e)y review, we wanted to review something very personal. We live near the St. George distillery in Alameda and have visited frequently (linked here is one of our first distillery tour reviews at St George!).

The …

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Review #9: St. George Baller

Smokey Bear the Pyromaniac
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Whisky Reviews 

Review #8: Breaking & Entering American Whiskey by St. George

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5 Recommended Single Malt Scotch Whiskies under $50
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5 Recommended Single Malt Scotch Whiskies under $50

2020-11-10 Michael L 0

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:

  1. All the whiskies are readily available; nothing on the list is impossible to
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We Tried Cocktails To-Go During COVID-19

2020-04-01 Sylvia L 0
What to Make with Laphroaig
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What to Make with Laphroaig

2019-09-24 Sylvia L 2
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Cocktails to Make with Cognac

2019-06-03 Sylvia L 0
Lagavulin Vertical Tasting: Which Lagavulin Bottling is the Best?
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Lagavulin Vertical Tasting: Which Lagavulin Bottling is the Best?

2019-02-16 Sylvia L 2
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Top 3 Cocktail Bars in Singapore for Dates

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About the Authors

We are a San Francisco-based duo of cocktail and whisky enthusiasts. We're always happy to connect! You can read more about us here and get hold of us here.

Sylvia and Michael

Recent Articles

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    I make little secret of my love for sherried whiskies. […]
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  • cocktail with a long stem in front of bananas and green plantThe Cooking Banana Cocktail
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    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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    2021-01-02
    Nikka Coffey Gin comes from the same massive Coffey […]
  • Review #121: Glengoyne 21
    2021-01-01
    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. […]
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    Plantation rum from Panama, aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon, and finished in ex-Cognac. […]
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    2020-12-24
    The Last Rites is only lightly sweet, and has that indescribable funk from passionfruit. […]
  • Rum Review #119: Plantation Fiji 2009
    2020-12-12
    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. […]

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