(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) In the past couple of years it’s become hard to read a published article or blog post… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rye
Rye Tasting I: The Old and the Familiar
(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) Our panel was very lucky to have obtained samples of some of the rarest and most highly… Continue Reading
The Rye Chronicles
What the hell just happened? A few short years ago, when I first started getting into this cocktail thing, rye whiskey was like the secret handshake of the liquorati — if you knew about it, and mixed your drinks with it, and dropped that into conversation with a fellow traveller, it was the equivalent of… Continue Reading
Holiday Spirit Practically One Hundred Per Cent
Excerpt from “Dancing Dan’s Christmas,†from Blue Plate Special, by Damon Runyon, 1931 Now one time it comes on Christmas, and in fact it is the evening before Christmas, and I am in Good Time Charley Bernstein’s little speakeasy in West Forth-seventh Street, wishing Charley a Merry Christmas and having a few hot Tom and… Continue Reading
St. Nick Sour
Sometimes a little variation on a theme is all that’s needed to breathe new life into an old drink. Take the whiskey sour. A lovely thing on its own, of course, and a dependable ally in an unfamiliar bar (as long as that bar has figured out how to squeeze a lemon, that is). But… Continue Reading
