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A Surprising New Leader of the Modern Gin Craze
Whisky will forever be the king of spirits in Scotland, but a little known fact: About 70 percent of the gin produced in the United Kingdom actually comes from Scotland, too. There are more than 15...
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Daily News: Ancient Finnish Beer, Korea’s Boozy Business Culture
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has teamed up with a psychologist to create a test that matches personality to flavors. – The New...
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Penicillin
No new drink of the twenty-first century has gone further in terms of fame than this complex, spicy, smoky turn on a Whiskey Sour. The Australian Ross created it while at Milk & Honey, just a year...
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Silver and Sand
Blood & Sand, a private cocktail club, offers 10 variations on the classic cocktail for which it is named—and original aside, this is the most popular version. “Shake the crap out of it so you get...
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Daily News: Tips From A “Drynuary” Veteran, The Family of Vintners Behind...
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – Due to the dwindling value of Sterling following Brexit, Scottish distillers are turning their attention to investment from...
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Daily News: The Nearly Forgotten Whiskey Region, The Beer Can Turns 82
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – In honor of the beer can turning 82, The Daily Beast highlights the standout designs on store shelves today. – After almost...
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Just How Important Is Sherry to Scotch Whisky?
In the middle of the 20th century, whisky makers in Scotland found themselves in predicament. The barrels they’d depended on for decades for aging their whisky had more or less ceased to exist. These...
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Daily News: Unicorn Flavored Cocktails, Fracking Threatens Scotch Whisky
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – Little Lab bar has translated Hong Kong’s culture into cocktail form with drinks that take inspiration from local cuisine. –...
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Ol’ Poet’s Smoke
The Ol’ Poet’s Smoke—a mix of Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve, honey, lemon and Amaro Montenegro—is one of several drink’s in the Scotch highballs section of the cocktail menu at the revamp of Chumley’s....
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The Unlikely Comeback of the Godfather Cocktail
The Godfather is a ridiculously simple drink—just Scotch sweetened with amaretto liqueur. Much like the similarly-structured Rusty Nail (Scotch and Drambuie), it belongs in the pantheon of mildly awful...
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How Does Costco Sell 18-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch for $38?
The geekiest factions of the online whiskey community can be particularly nasty, with insiders railing on “taters” (uninformed collectors) and lambasting the limited-edition releases they pursue. That...
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The Best Single Malt Scotch Whiskies Under $50
Single malt. The words evoke such reverence amongst most whisky drinkers. Class, refinement, sophistication, wealth. But what about great single malt Scotch on a budget? Perhaps we should first examine...
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Lookbook: Suzy Critchlow of D.C’s Columbia Room
Prior to landing her dream job as head bartender at Columbia Room, Suzy Critchlow dabbled in a slew of fields: She attended art school, opened her own bicycle shop in Richmond, VA, and almost attended...
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Baransu
Inspired by the prime winter scenario of “cuddling near a fire,” Carlie Steiner of D.C.’s Himitsu stirs Dewar’s with heavily-peated Scotch, oloroso sherry and a few dashes of bitters. It’s an ideal...
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Lookbook: Carlie Steiner of D.C.’s Himitsu
For Carlie Steiner, a career in hospitality was basically a given: At 13, the Virginia Beach native started working as a busser in local seafood restaurants to earn her own money, and caught the...
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Bee Keeper
Rachel Sergi, head bartender at The Next Whiskey Bar at The Watergate Hotel, is a regular Dewar’s drinker. “It plays really well with pineapple,” she says, a pairing that inspired this riff on a...
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Lookbook: Rachel Sergi of The Next Whiskey Bar at The Watergate Hotel
Rachel Sergi of D.C.’s The Next Whiskey Bar started out in the cocktail world as a hobbyist. While studying film in San Francisco, she was introduced to the local hospitality scene through a...
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How to Use Peated Scotch in Cocktails
Break out the Laphroaig, the Talisker, the Ardbeg, the Big Peat—any of the litany of Scotch whiskies redolent of peat and all of its smoky, briny, brooding flavor. But instead of pouring out a solitary...
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Five Essential Scotch Classics and Their Riffs
The popular notion that Scotch is better sipped than mixed has yielded a relatively thin category of Scotch-based cocktails. Nonetheless, those created over the last century have showed real staying...
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How to Use Drambuie in Cocktails
Poor, unloved Drambuie. Typically swept aside into the “cordials” corner of drink menus, this spiced, whisky-based liqueur is the most likely to have an inferiority complex. Did It for the Dram...
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