Monday, March 24, 2014

Teeling announces 26 and 30 Year Old bottlings


The Spirits Business
Teeling announces 26 and 30 Year Old bottlings
The Teeling 26 Year Old has been aged for 25 years in ex-Bourbon casks, and given a further 11-month maturation in white Burgundy barrels before ...

Arizona's 'microdistilleries' on the rise

Arizona's 'microdistilleries' on the rise
TEMPE — Arizona Distilling Co. adds a little bit of Arizona to its products. Copper City Bourbon honors a Prohibition-era brewing company in Douglas

North Charleston distiller looks to expand to Kentucky

North Charleston distiller looks to expand to Kentucky
If the site is acquired, the company plans to renovate existing warehouses and other buildings and start making bourbon in 12 to 18 months. The $20 ...

Indiana winery gets OK to begin brewing up hard liquors in-house; whiskey, vodka, gin in works

Indiana winery gets OK to begin brewing up hard liquors in-house; whiskey, vodka, gin in works
STARLIGHT, Indiana — Soon to join the list of Huber's world-famous fruit brandy and wine will be spirits of an entirely different flavor — whiskey...

Lawmakers mull full repeal of Tenn. whiskey law (copy)

Lawmakers mull full repeal of Tenn. whiskey law (copy)
State lawmakers are considering an outright repeal of a 2013 law that established, for the first time, a legal definition of Tennessee whiskey.

Chattanooga Whiskey leaders work toward 2015 Stillhouse opening


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Chattanooga Whiskey leaders work toward 2015 Stillhouse opening
Leaders of Chattanooga Whiskey have been in heavy planning mode for the past few months—buying equipment for their downtown Stillhouse, ...

A Texas whiskey for every taste


Dallas Morning News
A Texas whiskey for every taste
Balcones Texas Single Malt Whisky, about $70 per bottle at Sigel's (select stores) and Spec's (all stores). Herman Marshall Texas Bourbon Whiskey, ...

Take a walk on the mild side In remote Scotland

Take a walk on the mild side In remote Scotland
TARBERT, Scotland -- I don't have much to tell you about Scotland, really. It's true, they have whisky, and kilts, and some people speak with an accent ...

Last call for Wild Turkey at Ark. bottling plant

Last call for Wild Turkey at Ark. bottling plant
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Fourteen people will be out of work as the bottling of Wild Turkey bourbon moves from a Fort Smith plant to a facility in ...

Louisiana transplant one step closer to opening distillery in Chesterfield

Louisiana transplant one step closer to opening distillery in Chesterfield
Amacker said he hopes to produce four to nine products, including clear whiskey, aged whiskey, rye whiskey, clear rum, spiced rum, aged rum and ...

Glenglassaugh Torfa joins distillery's core range


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Glenglassaugh Torfa joins distillery's core range
The new Scotch whisky from the Highland distillery has a “smoky, peaty, phenolic nature”, whose name is derived from the Old Norse word for turf, ...

William Grant appoints global ambassador


The Spirits Business
William Grant appoints global ambassador
Rob Allanson joins William Grant & Sons Ltd. as the new global ambassador for Grant's Blended Scotch Whisky. Allanson joins Grant's after an eight ...

Icons of Whisky Awards 2014 - - Islay Blog

Icons of Whisky Awards 2014 - - Islay Blog
Icons of Whisky Awards 2014. Saturday, March 22 2014. Mickey Heads, Distillery Manager of Ardbeg, Laphroaig Distillery and Diageo, owners of ...

Single Cask Nation Releases First American Whisky: Catoctin Creek Rye

Single Cask Nation Releases First American Whisky: Catoctin Creek Rye
March 21, 2014, Purcellville, VA– Jewish Whisky Company's Single Cask Nation today announced it will release its first American whisky bottling, ...

Famous explorers club sues Johnnie Walker parent


New York Daily News
Famous explorers club sues Johnnie Walker parent
On the other hand, Diageo, which owns Johnnie Walker whisky, slapped the Explorers Club name on a new brand of whisky in late 2012, that's sold in ...

Belfast Whiskey Distillery's Titanic 5 and 15yo

Belfast Whiskey Distillery's Titanic 5 and 15yo
Titanic is a five-year-old Irish whiskey named after the famous ship, which was built in Belfast. Only 1,400 bottles of the 15-year-old McConnell's will be ...

Teeling Whiskey sees two of its brands win world honours

Teeling Whiskey sees two of its brands win world honours
The Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey was awarded the title of “World's Best Grain Whiskey” and the Teeling 21-year-old Single Malt Silver Reserve ...

Lots of Green in Irish Whiskey, New Homes and the Cloud

Lots of Green in Irish Whiskey, New Homes and the Cloud
A lot of those marchers celebrated with Irish whiskey, now the fastest growing whiskey category in the US, up 460% since 2002. It was also busy in the ...

Japan's whisky industry 'not affected' by Suntory acquisition


The Spirits Business
Japan's whisky industry 'not affected' by Suntory acquisition
Suntory's acquisition of Beam Inc will not have a large impact on the Japanese whisky industry – though it could allow other producers to enhance ...

Amrut Indian Whisky | JRCX

Amrut Indian Whisky | JRCX
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Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky Until today, I didn't know India made whiskey, but thanks to Flaviar, I actually had a chance to learn about it today.

Recap: Nikka Japanese Whisky Tasting | LA Cocktails

Recap: Nikka Japanese Whisky Tasting | LA Cocktails
LA Cocktails the minty
Nikka Whisky. Was it just a year and half ago when I first tried Nikka Whisky for the first time? Anchor Distilling started importing Nikka Taketsuru 12 ...

Olly talks whisky on ITV's This Morning » Olly Smith

Olly talks whisky on ITV's This Morning » Olly Smith
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Olly talks whisky on ITV's This Morning—. This Morning whisky Phillip Schofield. Olly takes Holly and Phil through a tasting of whiskies from Scotland, ...

Isle of Jura 1989 / 24 Year Old / Cask #30726+7

Isle of Jura 1989 / 24 Year Old / Cask #30726+7 - The Whisky Exchange
Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect. The Whisky Exchange : Online Whisky Shop - Buy Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Whiskies of ...

UK wine industry is not on same footing as beer, cider and whisky, says Wilson Drinks Report

UK wine industry is not on same footing as beer, cider and whisky, says Wilson Drinks Report
The UK wine industry is unlikely to receive the same kind of duty cuts awarded to the beer, cider and Scotch whisky industries in this week's Budget as ...

New fund takes its whisky neat

New fund takes its whisky neat
"The majority of our fund will be focused on single malt aged whisky but we will also put a small portion into looking at Japanese whiskies, potentially ...

World Whiskies Awards 2014

World Whiskies Awards 2014
This is mainly down to the rounds that the whiskies have to go through to qualify. Each time refining the pack down, each round having to meet a strict ...

Tassie whisky named world's best single malt


Brisbane Times
Tassie whisky named world's best single malt
"It'll really put Sullivan's Cove and Australian whisky on the world map, there'll be a lot of promotion of this in places like Britain and France, so it will ...

Savannah Bourbon sources best of Lowcountry

Savannah Bourbon sources best of Lowcountry
Savannah Bourbon, Georgia's first bourbon since the prohibition, make and bottle their new products Sweet Tea Lemonade and Savannah 88 at their ...

How Japanese Single Malts Surpassed Scotland's Finest

How Japanese Single Malts Surpassed Scotland's Finest
My first sip of a great Japanese single-malt whisky was back in 2004, when the 18-year-old Yamazaki was first introduced into the U.S. I found its ...

Diageo Targets the Booming Bourbon Market with Bulleit

Diageo Targets the Booming Bourbon Market with Bulleit
Five years ago, Bulleit Bourbon moved 40,000 nine-liter cases with a marketing budget of zero dollars. Now Diageo (NYSE: DEO ) , the world leader of ...

EXCHANGE: Suburban bourbon part of growing trend

EXCHANGE: Suburban bourbon part of growing trend
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — Small batches of gin, bourbon and other spirits are leading a business growth spurt in Illinois. Craft distillery licenses ...

INDIA: Two Local Whisky Brands Join $1bn Sales Club

INDIA: Two Local Whisky Brands Join $1bn Sales Club
Two Indian whisky brands have become the latest to join a small group of local consumer brands to breach the $1bn retail sales mark. According to ...

Perth to host new Home of Whisky Festival

Perth to host new Home of Whisky Festival
As one of Scotland's great whisky-producing regions, Perthshire is home to both the country's smallest distillery, Edradour, as well as the oldest, ...

Springbank matures in old whisky capital

Springbank matures in old whisky capital
Springbank in Campbeltown, at the foot of the Kintyre peninsula, is one of only two remaining distilleries in what was once the whisky capital of ...

Whisky Jewbilee Gambles on June Sipfest


Jewish Daily Forward (blog)
Whisky Jewbilee Gambles on June Sipfest
Whisky Jewbilee is moving up in the world. The kosher whisky event that started in 2012 when the much bigger WhiskyFest New York shifted from a ...

Scotch whisky duty frozen in last Budget before independence referendum


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Scotch whisky duty frozen in last Budget before independence referendum
George Osborne has used the final Budget before the independence referendum to freeze duty on Scotch whisky and praise the industry as a “great ...

Fat-Washing Whiskey is Apparently a Thing Now

Fat-Washing Whiskey is Apparently a Thing Now
But why in heavens would take a perfect good bottle of whiskey and make it taste like something else? I'd say that's almost un-American, but that ...

Blind Tiger's "Whiskey Business" Sneaks Up on You

Blind Tiger's "Whiskey Business" Sneaks Up on You
We're in full-on spring mode here at Gut Check world headquarters, but that doesn't mean we're giving up whiskey. The spirit is known to warm a fella ...

'Whiskey War' fought in Delaware in 1874

'Whiskey War' fought in Delaware in 1874
Tim Prindle, a 2012 OWU graduate who is a graduate student at Bowling Green State University, spoke about “Delaware's Whiskey War 1874” at the ...

Tennessee whiskey law change opposed by Jack Daniel's


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Tennessee whiskey law change opposed by Jack Daniel's
Bottles of Popcorn Sutton's Tennessee White Whiskey and Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey sit side by side at a Louisville, Ky., liquor store.

Slainte to St Patrick with top Irish tipples


Falkirk Herald
Slainte to St Patrick with top Irish tipples
A whiskey from Bushmills is a good place to start. Its long history of distilling dates back to 1608 and its famous single malt, Bushmills Malt Irish ...

'Whisky: The Manual' Tells You What To Drink And How


Forbes
'Whisky: The Manual' Tells You What To Drink And How
tracing its expansion from the British Isles to the New World and Japan, a topic with which I am particularly fascinated, as Japanese whisky is currently ...

Jim Beam buy helps Japan's Suntory latch onto US bourbon craze

Jim Beam buy helps Japan's Suntory latch onto US bourbon craze
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If anyone should find it odd that a Japanese distillery was planning to merge with a U.S. bourbon brand steeped in the ...

The American Dr(e)am: From Branch to Bottle. Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The American Dr(e)am: From Branch to Bottle. Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky
www.caskstrength.net - whisky blog Joel Harrison & Neil Ridley
It is no secret that what aids this transformation, and where a large percentage of the flavour of whisky comes from, is the oak barrels in which the spirit ...

Penderyn Whisky | The call of the Honeyguide

Penderyn Whisky | The call of the Honeyguide
It remains the only whisky currently produced in the Wales. Produced by the Penderyn Distillery, previously known as the Welsh Whisky

New PE fund targets whisky's liquid assets

New PE fund targets whisky's liquid assets
The price of rare whisky has grown for even a wee dram, providing an investment opportunity, say a pair of veterans from the wine and spirits industry.

Gruppo Campari Releases Glen Grant 50 Year Old Scotch Whisky

Gruppo Campari Releases Glen Grant 50 Year Old Scotch Whisky
I have protected and cared for this barrel for 50 years, letting it breathe and patiently waiting for the magic and interaction of whisky and wood.”.

Historic Scotch whisky distillery faces closure


The Spirits Business
Historic Scotch whisky distillery faces closure
A 200-year-old Scotch whisky distillery could face closure as its parent company goes into liquidation. The-Bladnoch-Distillery. The parent company of ...

Diageo Defends Honor and Quality of Early Times Whiskey | Food And Beverage News

Diageo Defends Honor and Quality of Early Times Whiskey | Food And Beverage News
Food And Beverage News newsroom
Claiming the integrity of Tennessee whiskey is “under attack” Brown-Forman's Jack Daniels asserts the only way for Tennessee whiskey to be a ...

Orphan Barrel Whiskey: Bourbons We Would Gladly Adopt

Orphan Barrel Whiskey: Bourbons We Would Gladly Adopt | BarFlySF
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Northern California, aided greatly by the City, also happens to be the the #1 brown spirit (e.g. whiskey) market in America. With a long history of ...

Jack Daniel's opposes changing Tenn. whiskey law

Jack Daniel's opposes changing Tenn. whiskey law - Local 8 Now WVLT
So says a year-old law that resembles almost to the letter the process used to make Jack Daniel's, the world's best-known Tennessee whiskey.

Lawmakers to hear debate over Tennessee whiskey

Lawmakers to hear debate over Tennessee whiskey | Times Free Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The owner of the Full Throttle moonshine distillery wants to add Tennessee whiskey to his product list. But Michael Ballard ...

In Defense of Whiskey and Water

In Defense of Whiskey and Water - Dappered
Dappered Style Mail Official Bartender Michael Bowers
When I first began to take spirits seriously, I assumed that anyone serious about whiskey only drank whiskey neat. And because I very much wished to ...

An American vodka maker chases whiskey overseas

An American vodka maker chases whiskey overseas - Fortune Features
FORTUNE Features Christopher Tkaczyk, Senior Editor
FORTUNE -- At a bar in Brooklyn not long ago, this author pointed to a bottle of Tito's Handmade Vodka on the shelf, and asked if it was any good.

Small Distillers Split on Jack Daniel's Tenn. Whiskey Law

Small Distillers Split on Jack Daniel's Tenn. Whiskey Law
The new legislation requires all Tennessee whiskey to be fermented from a mash containing at least 51% corn, filtered through maple charcoal and ...

No End in Sight to the Great Tennessee Whiskey Dispute

No End in Sight to the Great Tennessee Whiskey Dispute
It's going to take more time for Nashville lawmakers to resolve a spirited feud over what gets to be called Tennessee Whiskey. As the WSJ reports ...