Talkin’ Tastes, Prices, Quality, and Bullshit: A Pre-Christmas Primer
Unless you Trust Yourself, you’re always going to be a little disappointed with wine, your beer, that special whiskey, and never really understand why.
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Wee Drams 1: SD Beer Week, Booker’s, Knob Creek, Fort George(!), and More
Just a few of the more interesting events, products, and tidbits from the quasi-rational world of adult beverages.
Barr an Uisce Irish Whiskey: A Wee Change o’ the Paradigm
Apparently, I’ve been living under a rock when it comes to Irish Whiskey. Barr an Uisce is a celebrated distillery that wins spirits medals so often that they have to borrow a wheelbarrow to get the things back home.
The Good, the Bad, and The Future: Why Crazy Matters
We have to embrace the Crazy. We have to have our prissy assumptions and preconceptions and even our tastes offended, abused, and kicked in the nuts. It’s how we evolve.
Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey: Something Like Redemption
Uncle Nearest is Brilliant. I’m repeating myself but that’s the nutshell: Brilliant. A major, howlin’, smokin’ value whiskey because it delivers what you’d reasonably expect to get from a $120 bottle.
Laphroaig 28: The Ritzy Whiskey with the Smoky Soul
Bottom line: this is spectacular, paradigm-shifting, pants-dropping, eye-popping whiskey.
OUR/Los Angeles Vodka: A Clear, Brisk Taste of old/new LA
Our/Los Angeles is SERIOUSLY great Vodka, even if you don’t add LA into the equation.
Laphroaig Select: Select THIS.
Laphroaig Select is Splendid, in every aspect, in the immediacy of its flavors and textures and Attitude.
