Drinks
Off To See The Alchemist: A Quest for the Elusive Heady Topper
On November 9th, we asked K.B. Gould and Henry Phillips to make a fall pilgrimage to the Alchemist Brewery in Waterbury, Vermont.
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DrinksMulled Wine, Three Ways
Mulled wine is the perfect drink for the holiday season: just pleasant and alcoholic enough to warm everyone up, but not like handing out rounds of high-octane Manhattans that could turn Thanksgiving dinner into an episode worthy of Jenny Jones. We tapped the expertise of Jane Elkins, former and current barkeep at some of New York City’s best cocktail haunts, for three variations of mulled wine, each rooted in tradition and brushed up with ingenuity from behind her bar.
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DrinksZa Zdarovye! The 10 Best Russian Imperial Stouts
You ever have one of those ideas that seems really good at the time? Like, let’s drop these broken speakers down a flight of stairs, or let’s jump into the mosh pit at a Machinehead concert, or let’s see if we can lure that deer into the car?
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DrinksKanpai! The Five Best 12 Year Old Japanese Whiskies
Last week hummus and yoga were “in”, and while they’re not out yet, there’s a new top dog in Popularville: Japanese Whisky. Notice the spelling — that’s whisky with a -y, like Scotch whisky, not whiskey with an -ey, the spelling used for U.S.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Alec Bradley American Sun Grown Robusto
Alec Bradley is a brand that continues to grow in stature and quality in the highly competitive cigar market. While some brands are selling gimmicks, some as ridiculous as an 80-ring gauge cigar that’s not much different from cramming an exhaust pipe in your mouth, Alec Bradley is sticking with cigars that cover a range of tastes while still maintaining dignity and great flavor.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Comparing Bowmore’s 12 Years Old and 15 Years Old Darkest
There’s something to be said for a little maturation. Age yields refinement, which more than compensates for lost youth.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Johnnie Walker Platinum Label
Johnnie Walker presents a good lesson in the way the world really works: the rich drink Blue, the working man drinks Red, and in between there are rungs on the ladder of purchasing power.
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DrinksSlow As Molasses: 5 Rums We’re Drinking Now
In the final throes of summer each year, before we dust off the leather boots, get out the lambswool sweaters and prepare to toss the first curse at Old Man Winter, we spend a little extra time with Old Man Rum. Pretty good company, this guy: a spirit distilled from sugarcane juice or molasses, with few other rules to govern its production and aging.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Greenhook Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin Liqueur
There’s nothing like a bottle beach plum liqueur to conjure even totally made up memories of summering on the Atlantic coast. The only such spirit with a commercial release?
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DrinksTasting Notes: Union Wine Co.
If you produce videos like this one, our inclination is going to be to like you. We had hopes for their 2012 Underwood Pinot Noir ($12).
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DrinksTasting Notes: Pike Creek Whiskey
Pike Creek Whiskey was available stateside in the 90s. Slow sales soon put the importation experiment to an end, despite a budding cult following.
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DrinksWant This, Get This: 2009 Chateau Petrus or 2011 Leonetti Merlot
You know the pinnacle of wine-making remains in France. Well, so do all those newly minted Chinese millionaires, and they’ve driven the price of Old World red wines sky high.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Angel’s Envy Rye Whiskey
Angel’s Envy’s latest creation, a rye whiskey finished in Caribbean rum barrels, supposes to pair a contrasting set of spirit flavors.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Stella Artois Cidre
To begin: someone made a mistake in this assignment. I don’t like ciders.
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DrinksSuds Up: Perfect Summer Craft Beers
A true hot-weather brew is not necessarily easy to find. We won’t knock macrobrews — their simple refreshment is enhanced all the same by hot weather, scantily clad women and baseball games.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Dewar’s Highlander Honey
Putting honey into alcoholic things has a bad rap. It’s effeminate, it’s weak, it’s a cop-out.
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DrinksRum: Your Official Summer Drink
Most honest Americans of drinking age know bourbon as the national spirit. But there’s another drink for us to enjoy in the warm weather that, like bourbon, has a uniquely American story: rum.
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DrinksDistilling Tradition: A Visit to the Home of Jameson Irish Whiskey
There’s a published sociologist somewhere who said integration is the key to acceptance. Maybe we’re just paraphrasing Costner’s journal in Dances with Wolves.
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DrinksMalted Madness, Round Six: Sipping a Champion
It felt good to finish a successful 64-beer tournament. Partly because our bladders were feeling the pressure after lots of beer samples, but mostly because we got to crown a winner.