Things really do come in threes, it seems. There’s jokes, genre fiction series, holy trinities, and, apparently, new techniques for filtering premium tequila. It started in 2008, when we received a media sample of Maetro Dobel, a product purporting to … read more →

Beer freshness always struck us as gimmickry until we quaffed a Guinness poured straight from the storage tanks at St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin. Revelatory. Now, with the dog days barking, summer beers can offer delicious remedy—long as they’re … read more →

Drinking aggressively smoky Scotch isn’t typically a summertime pursuit (a troubling failure of imagination). But when Laphroaig—possibly the most distinctive of all heavyweight malts from the isle of Islay—releases a special bottling, we take note, seasonal biases be damned. Càirdeas … read more →

As the heat wave cooking the country drifts eastward, even resolute neat whiskey drinkers reach for the cocktail book. It’s brutal out there. A man needs something properly thirst-quenching in front of him. Beer can cause unwanted napping and nonalcoholic … read more →

If you pal around with whiskey folk (despite your mother’s best efforts), you’re bound to hear talk of “The Angel’s Share:” the amount of barreled spirit lost to evaporation every year. Heaven remains inaccessible, but Jim Beam has found a … read more →

The Nolet family has been distilling spirits in Schiedam, Holland for 11-generations. Some years ago, they bottled a bit of lightning with a vodka called Ketel One. Now, they’re introducing two new gins to the American market: Nolet’s Silver, and … read more →

If there’s one ironclad rule of 4th of July revelry it’s this: you can’t crash before the fireworks. Not easy, what with the all-day outdoor drink-a-thon that usually precedes the pyrotechnics. The basic survival strategies are well known: hydrate, eat, … read more →