Whiskey Humor: Aunt Carol For reasons unclear, whiskey has a rap for making people mean. No doubt some drinkers get vicious after a bit too much tippling, but this can happen with any alcoholic beverage—beer, wine, etc. So why doesContinue readingWhiskey Humor: The Aunt Carol Joke
Blue Ridge Institute Website on Moonshine An institute devoted to moonshine? Well, why not. This is America. The Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum College has this interesting website devoted to the subject: http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/moonshine/.
I love it! For about $100 you get 2 bottles of 124 proof rye whiskey and a two-liter charred American oak mini-barrel. This product enables the whiskey enthusiast to see the incredible effects that barrel aging has on whiskey. TakeContinue readingFun Product: Wasmund’s Age-It-At-Home Whiskey Kit
Are these creepy products whiskey? Not by any currently used definition. Most, if not all of these items, are produced by distilling rice. Chris Carlsson, the fearless liquor maven of SpiritsReview.com tasted “cobra whiskey.” His tasting notes give one pause.
Who was supposed to buy this stuff? The person who wants to smell drunk but not be drunk? See an unsettling 1955 photograph here. Remarkably, a website called “Toothpaste World” has some background information on this goofy, but once big-sellingContinue readingWhiskey Flavored Toothpaste?
Heritage marketing, also called retromarketing, is BIG in the whiskey world. Old brands are traded amongst conglomerates and relaunched. Often, they are packaged as if what was in the bottle is the same as it ever was, even though theContinue readingWhiskey and Heritage Marketing or Retromarketing