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The Tennessee Whiskey Backslide
By Richard Thomas Of course Jack Daniel’s is bourbon. But it’s alsosomething more. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A meme that was a fixture both in bar arguments and with some grumpy commentators was...
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Five Reasons Whiskey Beats Gin
Gin is for wankers…(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) By Richard Thomas 1. Nobody Drinks Gin Neat: Not since the days of the Dickensian poor has neat, unadultered gin been a popular choice for a good drink....
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Michter’s Installs Still To Mixed Response
By Richard Thomas Michter’s new Vendome-made still(Credit: Michter’s) On Thursday, Michter’s took a big step in its transition from bottler to distiller when it took delivery of and installed its...
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Top 5 Irish Whiskey Myths
By Richard Thomas (Credit: Richard Thomas) Irish whiskey remains a boom sector. Sales continue to grow, and new expressions come out and new distilleries open regularly. If anything, its momentum is...
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Whisky Bible 2015 Snubs Scotch
By Richard Thomas Whisk(e)y writer Jim Murray(Credit: David Rankin) Many in the United Kingdom are crying foul over the forthcoming 2015 edition of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible, arguably the premier guide...
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Diageo’s Puzzling Strategy
By Richard Thomas Johnnie Walker, the world’s #1 whiskey and flagship of Diageo(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Until word that Jim Murray had swept Scotch off the top of his rankings for Whisky Bible 2015...
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Behind The Great American Whiskey Shortage
Why You Should Relax, Because Most Of Your Whiskey Is Perfectly Safe By Richard Thomas What a genuine whiskey shortage would look like (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) The last few weeks have seen a new...
View ArticleChip Tate Agrees To Balcones Buy Out, Leaves Company
By Richard Thomas Chip Tate, the co-founder of Balcones who is often depicted as the brains behind the Texas distillery, was bought out by his company’s board, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald....
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Deceptive Whiskey Lawsuits Run Off The Rails
Anti-Deceptive Whiskey Crusade Takes Wrong Turn In Maker’s Mark Lawsuit. Or Did It? By Richard Thomas Maker’s Mark rolling off the line(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Many in American whiskey circles felt...
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Even More Bad Whiskey Writing
By Richard Thomas Were some of these people drunk when they wrote this stuff?(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Eight months have passed since the last installment in our periodic series on bad whiskey...
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Underrated: Wild Turkey 101?
Is Wild Turkey The Most Underrated Bourbon Around? By Richard Thomas A pint bottle of Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon(Credit: Richard Thomas) A couple of years ago, one of the popular memes in American whiskey...
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Five Reasons To Drink More Whiskey
By Richard Thomas One of the problems with being a real whisk(e)y enthusiast is justifying pulling the stopper out of the bottle. People have a pint of beer or a glass of wine with lunch all the time,...
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Four Steps For Selling Whiskey
Or “How To Tout A Whiskey Brand” By Richard Thomas (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) These days it seems everyone is sitting in behind their computer monitor and daydreaming about getting out of the rat race...
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Drinking Whiskey In The Summer
Tips For Enjoying Whiskey In Warm Weather By Richard Thomas (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) When people speak of “whiskey weather,” they refer to the cold, wet days of late autumn, winter and early spring,...
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Bad Whiskey Writing, Piled Higher And Deeper
By Richard Thomas Here’s to good whiskey writing!Too bad it’s so hard to find.(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Excoriable whiskey writing piles up fairly quickly in The Whiskey Reviewer’s files, and for our...
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Jack Daniel’s Was A Friend Of Mine
Separating Fact From The Legend Of Jack Daniel By Father John Rayls (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A part of Toby Keith’s “Hit It” song goes: C’mon There’s a gentleman down in Lynchburg On the south side...
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Craft Distilling Sitting On A Ticking Timebomb?
The Silver Trail Fire Raises Questions Of Equipment And Training Quality By Richard Thomas (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) While at Scotland’s Spirit of Speyside whisky festival earlier this month, I had...
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Best Bourbons For Under $25
By Richard Thomas Elijah Craig 12 Yearthe #1 budget bourbon (Credit: Richard Thomas) One of the telling virtues of bourbon is how you can get really good quality for a reasonable price. This sometimes...
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If You Don’t Know White Whiskey, Don’t Write About It
By Richard Thomas White dog, fresh off the still from Buffalo Trace.(Credit: Joana Thomas) Imagine that a wine and travel magazine, such as Wine Spectator or Food and Wine, wanted to do a piece on the...
View ArticleBrown-Forman Buys Slane Castle
By Richard Thomas Brown-Forman, the American drinks corporation that owns Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve, announced yesterday that it had bought Irish whiskey brand Slane Castle and would invest...
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