Format Change, Texas Hooch, and Aging Badly
This was my first chance to sorta live with a Texas whiskey and I was so pleased with it, I brought one back to Tacoma.
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The High End Brown Water: A Self-Pampering Guide
If you’re flush enough, and not a tight-fisted misanthrope like me, you CAN, absolutely give a genuinely magnificent bottle o’ hooch without straying into Bankruptcy Territory.
Drink Local: AGAIN, Why This is What Saves Us.
As far as I am concerned, there is NO EXCUSE for ANY functionally intelligent American adult to be drinking ANY beverage from global mass-producers. NONE.
The Ultra-Premiums: Why They Don’t Matter
Ultra-premium beverages do not matter. They are not a part of the universe that the VAST majority of us live in.
Saxtons Distillery: From Vermont, with Soul
If you can find Saxton Distillery Maple Bourbon and Snowdrop Gin, DO IT. Like right now. And sip with your jaw on your chest to keep it from falling on the floor.
A Cruxian Pursuit: Young Whiskey with an Old Soul
Crux/Pursuit Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a delicious, fascinating, grown-up bottle of American Bourbon and it is absolutely worth the $$$, if any Whiskey is.
Tacoma – and Your Hometown: A Metaphor and A Cautionary Tale
This future is something not that we have to create, it is something we get to create; a wonderful, limitless challenge and can be enormous fun and a good living, IF we have the guts and don’t let the knee-jerk naysayers drag us off the path, into their weeds.
It Is More Blessed: Day One: The Botanist
Am I a big ol’ hypocrite if I admit that, when it comes to discussing the relative merits of the planet’s many, many Gins, I am at least willing to discuss the fact that Bruichladdich Distillery’s brilliant offspring, The Botanist Islay Dry Gin, has to be in any conversation about “Best”?
The Pour Fool 