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Drinks
What Does a $3,500 Scotch Taste Like?
A blind taste test of five 37-year-old Scotches is the ultimate test of the senses.
By Chris Wright
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Drinks
The Best Sipping Rums from Around the World
We took a rum tasting tour with Kenneth McCoy, owner of The Rum House and Ward III in NYC.
By Nick Milanes
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Outdoors
Drugs, Snipers, Alcoholism, Death, Ammunition and Golf with David Feherty
David Feherty is a former pro golfer, massive Ryder Cup fan, author of four books and commentator on CBS and Golf Channel.
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Today in Gear
This Week in Gear: March 23 – 27
A look back at an entire week’s worth of gear.
By Gear Patrol
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Gift Ideas
Gift Guide: You’ve Earned It
You’ve spent the last 11 months making all the right choices. You’ve put the needs of others before your own.
By Gear Patrol
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Gift Ideas
Stocking Stuffers: Bar & Spirits
Our guide to the 16 best home bar- and spirits-related gifts under $50.
By Ben Bowers
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Drinks
For Happy Hour in the Backcountry, Just Add Water
Leave it to an Alaskan to invent a new way to drink alcohol outdoors.
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Outdoors
15 Best Day Hikes: Readers’ Choice Edition
Here they are: the 15 best day hikes, as told by our readers. All of the words and images below are straight from your submissions to our GP best hikes competition.
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Gift Ideas
The 12 Guys of Christmas: The Driver
The holiday season can be stressful, especially if you’re buying for a gearhead.
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Drinks
Cream of the Crop: The Best American Fruit Beers
Fruit beers have long been the redheaded stepchildren of the beer world. But now American brewers are using more complex bases — stouts, brown ales, rye ales and barleywines among others — and taking cues from the Belgians, those oldest of fruit beer brewers, to harness the nation’s harvest, from pumpkins to pluots.
By Peter Koch
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Drinks
Tasting the First Beer Aged in Jameson Barrels
Among the fastest growing trends named by brewers at the American Craft Beer Festival was barrel aging, so it’s no surprise that the world’s largest Irish whiskey producer, Jameson, is constantly approached by craft brewers looking for used barrels. Despite this, not once in Jameson’s 234 years of distilling whiskey had the company loaned their barrels to a U.S.
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Home
The Perfect Bar Cart
Alcohol remains an enduring motif in the great American narrative. That’s probably because those that wrote it drank, and drank well — epitomized by the enduring symbol of the most sophisticated of drinking cultures: the bar cart. What follows is just one interpretation of how the home bar should look and taste.
By Jack Seemer
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Archive
Six Fall Liqueurs for Better Fall Cocktails
Don’t be the guy who brings pumpkin spice vodka to a Friendsgiving gathering.
By Nick Milanes
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Watches
Want This, Get This: Bremont Terra Nova or Alpina Alpinist GMT 4
A good expedition watch must be a jack of all trades, with water, shock, and magnetic field resistance plus a compass bezel.
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Food & Drink
On the Burger Trail in Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles is known for Hollywood stars, sprawling traffic…and gourmet burgers. Yes, that sandwich concoction that first appeared in the late 1800s has become a staple in the City of Angels.
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Today in Gear
Today in Gear: June 25, 2014
Today in Gear: A Swiss-made watch that monitors health, a young American whiskey, an app that promotes wanderlust, the strongest high-end headphones and more.
By Tucker Bowe
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Drinks
Hacking Pappy: An Experiment in Home Whiskey Blending
At night, when bourbon connoisseurs go to bed, many dream of Pappy Van Winkle, a line of three exquisite bourbons (15, 20 and 23 years old, all of them colloquially referred to as “Pappy”) distilled and bottled by the Sazerac Company at the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Much of Pappy’s legend comes from its high demand: when it’s released, liquor stores dust off month-long waiting lists to decide who gets a bottle. At the end of last year, Bourbonr Blog made headlines in the liquor community by posting a recipe for “Poor Man’s Pappy,” a mix of two mid-range W.L.
By Kenny Gould
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Today in Gear
Today in Gear: May 20, 2014
Today in gear: a new entry level Logitech Harmony remote, the Nuvyyo Tablo DVR for cord cutters, Quixotic Pocket Squares, Wild Turkey Diamond Anniversary Bourbon and BBQ recipes from London.
By Ben Bowers
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Archive
Road Notes: The Rainforest World Music Festival
Where the South China Sea meets the rainforest in Malaysian Borneo, there’s a music festival unlike anything in the West.
By Will McGough