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• Zachary Johnston

  

  17 hours ago

  Are Bottled-in-Bond Bourbons Really Better? We Blindly Tasted Some To Find Out

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  Bottled-in-bond bourbon whiskey is often called “the good stuff.” Part of that is due to the style being a little rarer than your average small batch bourbon. Another reason is the way it’s made. The juice in bottled-in-bond bourbons need to come from one distiller, during one distilling season. …

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  Grapefruit Beers For The Citrus Obsessed, Blind Tasted And Ranked

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  8) Schöfferhofer Grapefruit (Taste 3) ABV: 2.5% Average Price: $8.99 for a six-pack The Beer: When I think of grapefruit beer, Schöfferhofer is the first beer that immediately comes to mind. Maybe because this beer with its pink hue and over-the-top grapefruit flavor barely resembles a beer at all. …

• Zachary Johnston

  

  1 day ago

  Make This: A New York Sour, It’s The Perfect Cocktail For The Weekend

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  I’ve been seeing the New York Sour everywhere lately — IG stories, TikTok, Google News Feeds. Hell, I went to lunch with an old friend this week and he regaled me about the New York Sours a bartender made for him over the weekend. As an old-school bartender from the very highest end of the scene, I …

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  A Shelf Full Of Classic Scotch Whiskies, Blind Tested And Ranked

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  I love some good Scotch whisky. But let’s face it, there’s plenty of shit on the shelf intermixed with the good stuff — yes, even the bottles that make it all the way across the pond. That said, I’d argue that you’re more likely to grab a good scotch than a bad one these days, because so much of …

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  2 days ago

  Whiskey Review: The Second Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Drop Of 2022

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  Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B522 ABV: 60.5% Average Price: $59 (MSRP) The Whiskey: The second Elijah Craig Barrel Proof of 2022 is a combination of 12-year-old barrels from the Heaven Hill rickhouses. The vatted barrels go into the bottle with no fussing — no filtration, no cutting with water, no …

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  A Brand New Irish Whiskey Is Coming To America — Here’s Our Review

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  Teeling Wonders of Wood First Edition Virgin “Chinkapin” Oak ABV: 50% Average Price: $99 The Whiskey: The first installment of the Wonders of Wood series is a single pot still Irish whiskey. That means the mash is a mix of 50% malted and 50% unmalted barley. The hot spirit is then filled into new …