Why was it that the good folks at Imbibe Unfiltered decided to choose “Winter Warmers” for the theme of this Mixology Monday? Did they somehow foresee that good chunks of the Pacific Northwest — including their base in Portland, and mine in Seattle — would be socked in for days on end with temperatures barely… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Spirits
Rye Tasting III: Michter’s
(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.) If Old Overholt traces its roots back to the early 19th century, Michter’s goes back even further.… Continue Reading
Rye Tasting II: The Tale of Rittenhouse
(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.) In the past couple of years it’s become hard to read a published article or blog post… Continue Reading
Rye Tasting I: The Old and the Familiar
(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.) Our panel was very lucky to have obtained samples of some of the rarest and most highly… Continue Reading
The Rye Chronicles
What the hell just happened? A few short years ago, when I first started getting into this cocktail thing, rye whiskey was like the secret handshake of the liquorati — if you knew about it, and mixed your drinks with it, and dropped that into conversation with a fellow traveller, it was the equivalent of… Continue Reading
