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Cocktail Enthusiast: Big House Bourbon Review
Big House Bourbon is a new whiskey that was launched in early 2013 by Underdog Spirits. Underdog is also behind Cupcake Vodka and Flipflop Rum, so… there’s that. Rather than producing the bourbon themselves, Big House is sourced from stocks a...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:37pm -07:00T (221 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Woody Creek Potato Vodka Review
Woody Creek Distillers is a new distillery based in Colorado. After some construction, farming and producing spirits, they opened their 10,000 square foot facility in May. Woody Creek currently has one product on the market — their signature Potato...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 1:23pm -07:00T (188 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Yellow Rose Outlaw Bourbon Review
Yellow Rose Outlaw Bourbon hails from the small town of Pinehurst, TX. Yellow Rose Distilling is a new operation, with just a couple years under its belt, but its already put out small batches of blended whiskey and rye whiskey, in addition to the bourbon...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 6:52pm -07:00T (257 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Top of the Hill Piedmont Gin Review
Top of the Hill Distillery is based in North Carolina and makes a vodka and white whiskey in addition to their newest offering: Piedmont Gin. The gin is distilled from organic Carolina wheat, and made in the style of New American gins. It relies less heav...
Dateline: 2013-06-07 11:07am -07:00T (229 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Paper Plane, an Atlanta Cocktail Bar
**Editor’s Note: Here’s the first post by Rachel Walters, an Atlanta-based cocktail aficionado, bar frequenter and our newest writer.**
Paper Plane, a collaboration between Victory Sandwich Bar and Paul Calvert, opened about two months ago, a...
Dateline: 2013-06-03 7:23pm -07:00T (466 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Beer Cocktails
One of the more spirited seminars we attended during this year’s Manhattan Cocktail Classic was on the subject of beer cocktails. Some people love them. Some people hate them. And most people are just curious as to where beer cocktails fall into the...
Dateline: 2013-05-31 1:08pm -07:00T (434 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Manhattan Cocktail Classic: News and Notes
Cocktail Enthusiast spent the last few days roaming the tasting rooms, seminars and parties of the 2013 Manhattan Cocktail Classic. Below: some of our favorite finds –
The MCC Gala kicked off on Friday night with plenty of revelry. There were tuxes ...
Dateline: 2013-05-26 5:07pm -07:00T (479 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Angel’s Envy Rye Whiskey Review
Angel’s Envy Rye Whiskey is a new product from the Louisville Distilling Company, maker’s of Angel’s Envy Bourbon. While the bourbon is finished in port casks, the rye whiskey is finished for 18 months in Caribbean rum casks before bottl...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 11:08pm -07:00T (289 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey Review
Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey is a recently released offering out of Pennsylvania. Rye was a major Pennsylvania export prior to Prohibition, when the 18th amendment closed down many of the state’s distilleries. The guys behind Dad’s Hat, John C...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 9:38am -07:00T (354 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Bombay Sapphire East Gin Review
Bombay Sapphire East is a twist on the original Bombay Sapphire Gin. The main difference here is the addition of two more botanicals — Thai lemongrass and Vietnamese black peppercorns — to the 10 botanicals already present in Sapphire. The gin...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 4:38pm -07:00T (227 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Introducing Sugar Daddy Rums
Sugar Daddy Rum is the latest product release from Prohibition Spirits, the Sonoma based company that also makes the line of Hooker’s House whiskeys. Sugar Daddy Rums are available in three expressions — Light Rum, Amber Rum and Dark Rum &mdas...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 3:08pm -07:00T (277 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Jameson Black Barrel Irish Whiskey Review
In the Jameson Irish Whiskey lineup, Black Barrel falls between the standard, ubiquitous Jameson and the 12 year old special reserve. Black Barrel was first introduced in 2011, and it’s composed of a high proportion of Irish pot still whiskey and a ...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 11:38am -07:00T (197 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Kenny Chesney Makes Rum Now
Earlier this month, word came that country star Kenny Chesney had launched a new rum brand. Dubbed Blue Chair Bay, the lineup consists of a white rum, a coconut rum and a coconut spiced rum. Chesney is just the latest celebrity to get into the spirits ma...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 10:08am -07:00T (232 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Beefeater Launches Burrough’s Reserve Gin
This week Beefeater Gin announced the launch of Burrough’s Reserve, a new gin that’s rested in oak barrels before bottling. This is Beefeater’s first permanent addition to their product range since Beefeater 24 launched in 2008. Alhough,...
Dateline: 2013-04-26 6:22pm -07:00T (257 words)
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Cocktail Enthusiast: Grant’s Stand Fast Whisky
In 2011, Grant’s Whisky archivist, Paul Kendall, made a pretty fascinating discovery while sifting through the Grant family archives. He came across an old blending book used by distillery founder, William Grant. Inside was the exact recipe he used...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 10:23am -07:00T (349 words)
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