In addition to mixing drinks, and drinking drinks, and writing about drinks, I also like to explore the ways drinks have affected our culture, and the ways they’re portrayed in art, literature and film from generations past. I wanted to pause a moment from the ongoing rye festivities to plug a new blog that’s the… 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
MxMo XI: Flipping Out
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
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
