Spirit Reviews

We love writing about spirits. While we’ve had hundreds of rums, as of March 2019 we’ve just started formally reviewing them, and you can find our catalog of rum reviews, and history about the spirit in our Rum Reviews section.

We’ve picked up the pace on whisky reviews, and have amassed a small arsenal of reviews. You can also learn more about our spirit tasting and review process. Some of our favorites recently have been from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), so we put together a comprehensive guide to SMWS bottle numbers, because a lot of the other ones we found weren’t up to date and were missing things.

We accept Rum and Whisky samples and you can learn more about how to reach us on our contact us page.

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We ended up doing the HP 30 in a very fancy flight: Bruichladdich 25, Bruichladdich 1990 26 year, and Highland
The Rusty Nail's signature ingredient is Drambuie, a scotch based liquor, sweetened with heather honey, and infused with herbs and
One thing I sometimes fantasize about is doing the Julie & Julia version of cocktails. To be honest, I have
Beet and Shochu in a delicious tiki style gin drink.
Finding some of their specialty casks can be tough, but I assure you it's worth the challenge.
As I mentioned in our Kavalan Manzanilla sherry cask review, my overwhelming cheapness resulted in San Francisco to Tokyo tickets
The final dram of our Dalmore flight at OneUp in San Francisco (Dalmore 12 review at 7/10 here and Dalmore
As mentioned in our Dalmore 12 review, the reddit community does not like Dalmore much. There are some good points:
Vancouver is fun to visit, but there is a 90% chance it will rain at some point and then one