Friday, June 20, 2014

What's the Best Whiskey Stock? STBFY, DEO & BF.B

What's the Best Whiskey Stock? STBFY, DEO & BF.B
Whiskey has become increasingly cool and popular thanks to the whole cocktail movement, something that's good for big whiskey stocks like Suntory ...

Rhetoric Whiskey Introduced as Third Addition to the Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Company

Rhetoric Whiskey Introduced as Third Addition to the Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Company
TULLAHOMA, Tenn., June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- For the whiskey aficionado who dreams of selecting the choicest barrels from the guarded ...

Canadian whisky makers raising the bar on spirits

Canadian whisky makers raising the bar on spirits
Canadian whisky's popularity in the U.S. dates to the Civil War, which disrupted U.S. distilling, says De Kergommeaux. There's long been a myth that ...

Glassware firm is planning to expand

Glassware firm is planning to expand
Demand from Scotch whisky makers has remained very strong and does not seem to have been affected by the clamp down on gift giving in China.

Scotch distillers warned to grow more carefully


The Spirits Business
Scotch distillers warned to grow more carefully
The Scotch whisky industry has been advised to draw on the wine category's experiences and grow at a steadier rate to avoid the shifts between ...

Listen up and see, as well as taste what's in your mouth

Listen up and see, as well as taste what's in your mouth
They used Scotch whisky for the experiment and found that if you drink a glass of single malt in a room bathed in green light and covered in real grass, ...


Scottish Independence: Whitehall's Top Reasons for Why It's a Bad Move


Yahoo News UK
Scottish Independence: Whitehall's Top Reasons for Why It's a Bad Move
Scotland is famous for its whisky and, according to the Scotch Whisky Association, scotch exports contributed £4.3bn (€5.3bn, $7.2bn) to the United ...

Scotch industry told to embrace flavoured whisky

Scotch industry told to embrace flavoured whisky
Scotch producers have been advised to embrace flavoured whisky to retain interest from consumers and compete with overseas whisky brands.

Campbeltown whisky expert inducted into hall of fame


Campbeltown Courier
Campbeltown whisky expert inducted into hall of fame
Frank McHardy springbank distillery whisky A LEGEND of the whisky industry is toasting his success after being entered into the hall of fame of a ...

Tech-Heavy Leather Briefcase Finds Whisky Fans The Perfect Blend

Tech-Heavy Leather Briefcase Finds Whisky Fans The Perfect Blend
The idea of a whisky tasting brings to mind the smell of old books, dapper suits, and a bit of old-school pretense. Instead of an expert talking about ...

Whisky the winner as beer sales slide in 2014

Whisky the winner as beer sales slide in 2014
Sales of malt whisky and sparkling wine have boomed in the pub sector over the last year while beer sales saw a dip. Sales of malt whisky were up 20 ...

True BBQ & Whiskey Bar is Now Open!

True BBQ & Whiskey Bar is Now Open!
true-bbq-whiskey-bar Today is the opening day for True BBQ & Whiskey Bar in Munster. You should go and check out the great food and drinks at this ..

Want to drink like a founding father? Pour some cider, Madeira, whiskey and more

Want to drink like a founding father? Pour some cider, Madeira, whiskey and more
You know George Washington and John Hancock as founding fathers. But what about George Washington, successful whiskey distiller? Or John ...

India's thirst for whiskey may finally be waning


Quartz
India's thirst for whiskey may finally be waning
Sometime in the last decade, Indians started consuming whiskey with such gusto that the subcontinent became the world's biggest market for the spirit, ...

It's Not Tennessee Whiskey If It's Aged In Kentucky, State Says


NPR (blog)
It's Not Tennessee Whiskey If It's Aged In Kentucky, State Says
The latest chapter in the Tennessee whiskey wars revolves around the finer points of making whiskey in the Volunteer State — specifically, where you ...

Heady mix of the good stuff


Independent Online
Heady mix of the good stuff
Whiskey (the US spelling) and bourbon are actually more or less the same thing; bourbon gets its name from Bourbon County in Kentucky where it ...

Old Spirits

Old Spirits
Atlanta Magazine - Think running moonshine was tough? Eighty-six-year-old Carlos Lovell has 
found that going legit is enough to drive a man to drink