Frank Sinatra had a sponsorship contract with Chivas scotch in the latter portions of his long and famous entertainment career – but it was a flask of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 – which he referred to as “nectar of the gods” – with which he was buried when he passed away 15 years ago…. [Continue Reading]
If you can’t get to Tucson for BaconFest, there’s always Manhattan for the fifth annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic. It’s too late for tickets to the main events but there’s still time to snag tickets to the first two sessions of Mandarine Napoleon’s Double Buzz: Coffee and Cocktails as well as sessions in schnapps, mescal and… [Continue Reading]
Whether it’s strangling some grilled asparagus or has wrapped itself around hot dogs or scallops or embedded itself in meat loaf or brownies or simply adorned itself atop some maple bars, bacon is one of life’s greatest guilty pleasures. Yeah, sure, we know consuming pounds of it will hasten your death by 14 years. Whatever…. [Continue Reading]
When you first saunter upon the Dry Fly Distillery collection of whiskies, there is nothing about the packaging that either oozes old school dignity nor screams brazen young whippersnapper superficial taunts. It looks rather nondescript with a rather stodgy [if you ask me] fly-fishing fly as a logo. But this mostly belies what is held… [Continue Reading]
Baz Luhrmann’s rendition of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic,“The Great Gatsby”, is loud [thanks to a Jay-Z soundtrack] and ostentatious – which may or may not be what Fitzgerald had in mind – Luhrmann tends to make his own showy look-at-me interpretations of classics. But Macallen jumps on the Gatsby bandwagon along with UK-based retailer,… [Continue Reading]
The emergence and continued existence of reality shows on television seems to prove rather conclusively that people will do just about anything if they deem the carrot dangled in front of them to be delicious enough for their tastes. Working on this premise, the humans working for the Label 5 whiskey brand have decided they… [Continue Reading]
If somebody told you that you could go to an all-you-can-eat BBQ, smoke four Rocky Patel cigars and wash it down with all the Glenlivet, Jameson and Chivas Regal whiskey samples you want, what are the odds you would claim that “somebody” was crazy? Well, consider WhiskeyCritic as your new crazy best friend because we… [Continue Reading]
Utterly disgusted by the non-dram-like 25 ml and 35 ml measurements which they have currently been forced to sell spirits [but more importantly, whisky] by officials of the National Measurement Office [a Monty Python skit in the making if there ever was one], the organizers of the upcoming Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival are… [Continue Reading]
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