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Why does someone start a bourbon brand named Penelope Bourbon? Are you sitting at home in New Jersey, thrilled that you and your wife are going to finally have a baby, talking with your childhood best friend, and the subject of bourbon just happens to come up? Perhaps. And if Read More

Smoked ice gives cocktails a campfire kick

Sean Martin

Features

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It’s comical to see someone’s reaction when I tell them I am smoking water for the sole purpose of making ice. It’s not exactly the most common thing you see on a barbecue menu. However, it makes sense. Hear me out. You may be asking why anyone would want smoked Read More

Lone rider Sherry Cask Finish Bourbon

David Honig

Spirits

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Lonerider Spirits is a new company from the same people who created Lonerider Brewing, inRaleigh, North Carolina. The Sherry Finish Cask Bourbon is their first release. They didn’t distill the spirit - it comes from Indiana (likely MGP, given the mash bill: 60% corn, 36% rye, 4% barley). It clocks Read More

What We’re Drinking – Mic.Drop.2 Straight Bourbon Whiskey

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Mic.Drop.2 is the second bourbon from Nicolas Palazzi, who I described as a magician after the first edition. The second round is a 13-year old single barrel that yielded a paltry 140 bottles, and every one of them is gone. But read on, and see what we missed (I got Read More

Make Bourbon, not Biofuel

Roger Morris

Features Spirits

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Melvin Matteson has serious reservations about becoming a media star. For decades, he has grown hundreds of acres of corn on his farm in Winthrop, Iowa, with little more to worry him other than the occasional tornado. Now, in semi-retirement, everyone, it seems, wants Matteson to show them his cornfield. Read More

What We’re Drinking – Mic Drop Straight Bourbon Whiskey

David Honig

Wine Reviews

1 min read

I'm starting to believe Nicolas Palazzi is a magician. He is constantly coming up with brilliant new spirits, and every single one of them meets or leaps over the bar he keeps setting higher and higher. Mic Drop Straight Bourbon Whiskey is an eight year old bourbon that drinks far Read More

Milwaukee’s Bitter Brews: A Cocktail Tour

W. Blake Gray

Features Spirit Reviews Spirits

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Milwaukee is so famous for beer that its baseball team is named the Brewers, and a guy used to slide into a vat of beer every time one of them hit a home run. Laverne and Shirley ran for seven years, into the early '80s, featuring two women who capped bottles in Read More

What We’re Drinking – Ron Navazos-Palazzi Cask Strength Rum

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Equipo Navazos and Nicolas Palazzi have searching together for forgotten casks of Spanish Brandy. One day, at a bodega in Jerez, they found Antilles rum that had been aging in Oloroso Sherry casks for 10 years or more. With a little research, they discovered it was 100% molasses rum distilled Read More

Penelope Bourbon: How to Create Your Own American Whiskey

Smoked ice gives cocktails a campfire kick

Lone rider Sherry Cask Finish Bourbon

What We’re Drinking – Mic.Drop.2 Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Make Bourbon, not Biofuel

What We’re Drinking – Mic Drop Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Milwaukee’s Bitter Brews: A Cocktail Tour

What We’re Drinking – Ron Navazos-Palazzi Cask Strength Rum

2019 Sassotondo Ciliegiolo Maremma Toscana, Tuscany, Italy

2019 Red Electric “Alpine Lily” Chardonnay, Willamette Valley, Oregon

2017 Valle Dell’Acate ‘Il Moro’ Nero d’Avola, Sicily

2018 Notturno Drei Donà Romagna DOC Predappio Sangiovese

2019 Jordan Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County