I’d like to briefly pause from the mondo rye fiesta to remind everyone that this coming Monday, January 15, is the first Mixology Monday of 2007. Hosting the event will be the wonderful folks over at Imbibe Unfiltered. For the January event the hosts have chosen Winter Warmers for the topic — and as I… 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
Seeing Double
As the creeping madness that is cocktailphilia gradually overtakes its victim, it’s not unusual for he or she to gradually become consumed with the pursuit of ever-more obscure ingredients. At first, depending on the victim’s location and his or her proximity to decent liquor stores, this obsession may focus on the hunt for maraschino liqueur,… Continue Reading
