Category Archives: Spirits

Rye Tasting VII: the Sazerac family of ryes

(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) After a series of rather time-consuming life distractions derailed this coverage for a couple of weeks, I… Continue Reading

MxMoXII: Colleen Bawn

You might have thought, given my less-than-sterling results with last month’s MxMo submission, that I’d veer in a completely different direction for this round. And I have, to a certain extent — hot beer? Gone. Rum? Gone (given that this months theme is “whisk(e)y,” that’s not much of a surprise). Raw egg? Oops… I’ve only… Continue Reading

Rye Tasting VI: Hirsch

(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) Unlike many of the other ryes in this tasting — which came accompanied by some press materials… Continue Reading

Rye Tasting V: Pikesville Supreme

(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) I didn’t want to get too complicated while talking about rye — after all, it’s a strange… Continue Reading

Rye Tasting IV: Van Winkle

(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) For much of the time between rye’s near-demise during Prohibition and the late 1990s, there was no… Continue Reading