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Whiskey

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    May 17, 2013

    3 Great Bars For Celebrating World Whisky Day

    It's World Whisky Day on Saturday, May 18, declared last year by a Scottish college student named Blair Bowman who saw the need to hold an annual celebration of the spirit. He figured it was only fair to designate one for his country's drink of choice, seeing as how there were world days set for bee ... More >>

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    April 17, 2013

    Cochon 555 Returns to Los Angeles

    After Cochon 555 2011, we surrendered. Fattened up like one of the hogs that the crowds of attendees had, locust-like, swirled around, oily-faced and intoxicated, we swore the thing off. We were almost politically opposed to the maniacal level of indulgence that the event seemed to encourage. Thi ... More >>

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    March 13, 2013

    Suntory Rising: The Rise of Japanese Whiskey

    In Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's 2003 cinematic homage to anomie, Bill Murray's character, Bob Harris, travels to Japan and submits to a kind of humiliation by whiskey as the spokesman for Suntory spirits. He endures various slights by pompous art directors, his eyes streaked with mascara and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2013

    Cocktail Nerdom: Happy Birthday Robert Burns A Recipe For The Bobby Burns Cocktail

    Today in 1759, Robert Burns was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. He became the country's most famous poet and lyricist, was known as Bard of Ayrshire, and in Scotland simply as The Bard. He wrote the song "Auld Lang Syne," is considered a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and was influential to the Socia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2012

    Serious Drinking: A Boozy Gift Guide

    Ah, Christmas. It comes but once a year, but the drinking it inspires is, well, inspiring. So too the spending on said drink, on bottles that otherwise might not justify such expenditure. But why not? There's hardly a better occasion than the holidays to drink something good or give something good t ... More >>

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    November 28, 2012

    The Balvenie Fifty: A $30,000 Bottle of Scotch

    In the glass depicted above is a scotch whisky from The Balvenie, a highland distillery that specializes in single malts with lustrous wood finishes. This particular scotch went into a barrel in 1962, and did not emerge until late last year, when the company decided to release it as a single cask re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2012

    Q & A With Chop Suey's Adam Acuff: Craft Sake, Collaboration Beers The Manhattan Project

    Little Tokyo's historic Far East Café has for years been divided up into two establishments. One is L.A Weekly's most-improved craft beer bar of 2011, Far Bar, and the other is an underutilized restaurant and lounge next door called Chop Suey. For the last few years, we admit we've skipped over e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2012

    Olympic Drinking: Beer, Gin Whisky

    By now you're fully ensconced in the full-on drama of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, a global event featuring feats of human skill so thrilling that you're likely to have to endure a few marathon sessions yourself -- in front of the telly, that is, unspooling TiVo recordings hour after hour, devotin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    The Botanist: A New Oscar-Worthy Gin

    The Botanist has all the buzzwords of box office gin success. In addition to the typical gin aromatics (juniper berries, cassia bark, orange peel and such), it is distilled with "22 wild native Islay botanicals" (white clover, bog myrtle leaves, creeping thistle). They've been hand-picked by an "exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    American Distilling Institute's 2012 Artisan Spirits Awards Winners

    In certain glossy magazine and high-end spirits competition circles, a vodka's photogenic front-page appeal is as important as what's inside the bottle in determining its award-winning value. But with the American Distilling Institute's annual Artisan American Spirits Awards, which were released las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Q&A With Eva's Gabriella Mlynarczyk, Part 2: Her Tea Liqueur 2 Bicoastal Cocktail Recipes

    flickr user vintage roadtripWelcome To California​When we interviewed Gabriella Mlynarczyk at Eva, she was sharing her first impressions on the L.A. mixology scene after nearly 15 years in New York. ("But remember I haven't been here long," she reminds us, laughing). One of the differences is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Science Can Now Tell Real Whiskey from Fake

    University of StrathclydeAllyson McIntyre, a researcher at the University of Strathclyde.​In a piece of research that could have come only from Glasgow, chemists at the University of Strathclyde have found new methods of comparing whiskeys that allows them to determine whether what's on the la ... More >>

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    June 29, 2011

    Ten Pound Opens at The Montage

    Saunter into The Montage Beverly Hills past Scarpetta and head up the curved stairway to the second story, where Los Angeles' most recondite shoebox bar (and probably its most affluent) hides behind a carapace of dark wood and buttery leather. With only nine tables, Ten Pound (or £10, if you p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Happy St. Patrick's Day: Dana Farner On Whiskey Sectarianism, Why It's Okay to Drink Your Dinner [The Idiocy of] Green Beer

    Anne FishbeinSommelier Dana Farner ​It is St. Patrick's Day, a time to remind ourselves while eating the traditional corned beef and cabbage (which will be popping up on every restaurant menu) that the All-American salt-cured brisket dish is as native to Ireland as fajitas is to Mexico or G ... More >>

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    March 3, 2011

    High West: The Spirit Of The Rye, Rye West Their Newest Double Rye Release

    J. GarbeeThe Regional Whiskey Face Off Continues ​If you follow the spirits circuit, specifically those of the barrel-aged corn and rye persuasion, High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, has probably been on your radar for a while. If not, you'll hear about this young craft distillery soon i ... More >>

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