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Blue Ice Vodka

November 19, 2011
Blue Ice Vodka

The first thing about Blue Ice (80 proof) that will grab you is the bottle: oblongish, icy blue tint, no paper label. Look upon it after it has sat in the freezer for a time and you’ll get the impression that it drifted from a glacier- frost coated and the back of the bottle has a hewn-from-ice texture. Blue Ice is made in America, in Idaho, to be specific, from Russet potatoes. It’s four times distilled and a five-stage filtration process.  It costs only about $20 a bottle and what bang for the buck it provides! It’s extremely smooth,...

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Re-Aging Kentucky Gentleman Whiskey: Success!

October 24, 2011
Re-Aging Kentucky Gentleman Whiskey: Success!

The very smart Drew Long of DCFoodies.com has taken Early Times whiskey and re-aged it to remarkable effect.  After seven-and-one-half months of sitting in a new charred oak barrel, the thin, bland Early Times became deep and delicious. We were floored when we sipped it. Inspired by Long’s example, we decided to try it for ourselves.  Could we, to put it crudely, turn shit into shinola? On June 6, 2011 we took a small Wasmund’s charred barrel we had previously used to age barley spirit, and filled it up with Kentucky Gentleman blended whiskey.  This Barton Brands product is...

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Audio Interview on Whiskey: A Global History (Radio New Zealand)

September 24, 2011
Audio Interview on Whiskey: A Global History (Radio New Zealand)

Simon Morton of Radio New Zealand‘s “This Way Up” radio program interviewed Kevin R. Kosar about his book, Whiskey: A Global History. You can listen to the approximately 20 minute interview by clicking either here or here.

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American Harvest Organic Spirit (Organic Vodka)

September 23, 2011
American Harvest Organic Spirit (Organic Vodka)

Well, isn’t this an uber handsome bottle!  A liter bottle of American Harvest is a looming 14+ inches tall and 4 inches across. We confess some confusion over the what and where.  This is a vodka, yet, its name does not carry the word “vodka”; rather, it is American Harvest Organic Spirit.  And what distillery makes this vodka is not listed on either the bottle or the website.  (We have our guess—Distilled Resources of Rigby.)  But perhaps we are just getting old and dense and should not be fussing over such things. American Harvest (80 proof) is a new...

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McCarthy’s Oregon Single Malt Whiskey

September 23, 2011
McCarthy’s Oregon Single Malt Whiskey

The American micro-distilling movement rolls on! McCarthy’s is produced by Clear Creek Distillery of Portland, Oregon. This bottle (Batch W09-01, bottled August 3, 2009) was barrel-aged three years and weighs in at 93 proof. We were delighted to read the label’s declaration, “This whiskey was not cold stabilized and filtered prior to bottling.” The Scottish barley used to make this whiskey was fermented by Widmer Bros. Brewing Company. This is a pretty robust Scotch-like whiskey. Its primary flavors are iodine and smoke, so lovers of Islay malts (like Ardbeg and Laphroaig) and perhaps Talisker might find this malt appealing. ...

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Video: Jack Rose the Ultimate Whiskey Bar

August 20, 2011

Located at: 2007 18th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20009. See http://JackRoseDiningSaloon.com/

The short of it: 1,400+ spirits, mostly rare single malts, but also hundreds of Bourbons

Background: Jack Rose was set up by these cats: http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/restaurants/19723.html

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