Archive for June, 2007

Sazerac Rye

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

This rye may make for good cocktail, but a cocktail usually requires mixing some liquid with alcohol to make it more…More…More something. It’s changes the taste after you drink a bottle or two and want a change.
…Sazerac Rye needs not a mixer, water, ice. It only needs to be poured and drank.
Sazerac Rye […]

Elijah Craig 18 + J&B (A Tom89 And Blend)

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

They balance. Some where in the time continuum only one full of whiskey lives in can such a balance be discovered.
I have either had too much whiskey today, or I have a good suggestion for the creators of Elijah Craig 18 and J&B: Create a blend.
Why?
I can’t now define. It’s just. […]

Dickel

Friday, June 15th, 2007

A transitional charcoal whiskey. First taste is sweet like that candy soda you use to drink when still a child, or that lollypop you sucked on. For a split second one is tempted to look for a lollypop stick in the glass. But then there is the spread of the bourbon pit that shocks the […]