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TX Whiskey in Fort Worth Takes Best American Craft Whiskey at World Spirits Competition

Fort Worth-based Firestone and Robertson Distilling Co. won double gold medals and Best in Class in the category of American Craft Whiskey for their TX blended whiskey at the 13th Annual World Spirits Competition in San Francisco recently, where more than 1,407 spirits were poured from 63 countries ... More >>

Balcones Texas Single Malt Wins Another Award

Balcones Distillery, the folks responsible for the Texas single malt whiskey we tasted back in January, just made news with the Ultimate Beverage Challenge. The Waco-based distillery's product just won the American whiskey category in a recent spirit evaluation held by the organization, which tastes ... More >>

R.I.P. Scotch Whisky: Dewar's Has Gone the Way of Flavored Vodka

This isn't good. A post on the Whiskey Advocate Blog marks the release of Dewar's Highlander Honey, a Dewar's scotch whisky infused with honey and filtered through oak cask wood. See also: - What The Fuck Happened To Vodka? According to the blog, this is the first time scotch has been marketed in ... More >>

Balcones Whiskey Tasting and Signing Coming to Sigel's This Saturday

If your interest was piqued a couple of weeks ago when Scott Reitz told us about his bottle of Balcones single malt whiskey, or perhaps even before that you read about it in The New York Times, well, you're in luck. See also: - Tasting Balcones Single Malt Whiskey - Texans Make Scotch Whisky Bette ... More >>

Tasting Balcones Texas Single Malt Whiskey

Yesterday we pointed out the mention of Balcones Texas Single Malt Whiskey in The New York Times as part of a larger discussion about malt whiskeys and their recent domestic rise. Today I got a bottle of the stuff. It tastes like this... When it comes to whiskey, I am a man seduced by dark and drea ... More >>

Texans Make Scotch Whiskey Better Than the Scots Do

Shame on us for not seeing this sooner. A Waco distillery whooped up on the Scots in the whiskey distillin' business a month ago. They won Best in Glass, a recent whiskey competition, beating names I'm sure you'll recognize like Macallan and Glenmorangie, just to name two. See also: - Texas Distill ... More >>

Sigel's Hosts Impressive Craft Distillery Tasting, Including Texas Brands

This Wednesday, December 5, the Sigel's at 5757 Greenville Avenue will raise a toast small craft-distilleries in a special tasting event with more than 60 different spirits to sample. All of the micro-distilleries participating make unique, small batches of spirits. Per Jasper Russo at Sigel's, wh ... More >>

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Firestone And Robertson on Distilling Bourbon and Whiskey in Fort Worth

Surely it's difficult to convince your spouse that it's a good idea to quit your day job to distill whiskey. Considering that's exactly what Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson did, they must be really good talkers. In a salvaged Prohibition-era warehouse south of downtown Fort Worth, they're filli ... More >>

Feargal McKinney, Owner of the Old Monk and Blackfriar, on the Magic of an Old Irish Whiskey

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Feargal McKinney came to the U.S. after college to see the sights and do a bit of traveling. After some time in New York City, he took the scenic route to California and stopped in Dallas to visit a friend and essentially never left -- partially because he got stuck ... More >>

Sample Seven Different Irish Whiskeys (But Not All at Once) at The Idle Rich Pub's Tasting

Well this should be sober. The Idle Rich Pub on McKinney is hosting its annual Irish Whiskey Tasting on Monday, January 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. This is a casual, free-flowing event with no formal presentations or lectures. They'll provide an information packet and a tasting guide. Smell, swirl, sip, ... More >>

Private, Social, Drunk: Rocco Milano, Mansion Expat, Has His New Bar Humming

FacebookHum: Now being served at Private Social.​Private Social bar manager Rocco Milano is like a young redheaded Santa, ready to grant all your alcoholic Christmas wishes, or maybe the fourth Wise Man, bearing obscure aperitifs and rare scotches in place of frankincense and myrrh. Perched ... More >>

How to Properly Execute a Nightcap

Flickr​A story in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend examined the practice of cramming in one more drink before the evening ends. "Rules for an Honorable Nightcap," it was called, there are, it turns out, many rules. A nightcap should be a one-off, not "one more" of whatever you're ... More >>

The Second Floor Gives Dads a Less Expensive Taste of the Good Stuff

Barrels of Scotch at The Macallan distillery.​If you're at a loss for what to get Dad this Father's Day, The Second Floor Restaurant has a suggestion: scotch. But not just any scotch. The good stuff. And for dads on their big day, all of it's 50 percent off. That means a $140 Macallan 25 ... More >>

Texas Craft Liquor Makers Belly Up to the Bar to Challenge Kentucky Bourbon.

Scotch-Happy Sigel's Pours on the Hootch

news.icanhascheezburger.com​Sigel's is giving customers 68 opportunities to challenge their assumptions that they don't like Scotch. There's almost always a tasting happening at Sigel's, but a release touting next Wednesday evening's event at the 5757 Greenville Ave. store caught my attention ... More >>

Texas Distillers Look to Make Their Mark in Whiskey World

Until the whiskey's ready, Ranger Creek says try a beer.​While a vast majority of Texans still haven't sampled whiskey legally distilled in-state, an owner of Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling in San Antonio believes Texas bourbon could become a nationally recognized category. "We really beli ... More >>

Taking It Nice and (Big) Easy at Whiskey Cake

​New Orleans is a food-lovers paradise, and such an all-around cool town that it has its own official cocktail---Sazerac, a power-packed concoction of rye whiskey (or cognac), absinthe, and Peychaud's bitters. At Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar, the trendy new Tollway tavern in Plano, your waitress ... More >>

Get Ready for the Next Hard Liquor Made Organically--Texas-made Bourbon

​A Texas distillery has a shot at releasing the world's first organic bourbon, but the makers of a pioneering organic vodka say the spirit may not be an easy sell. Garrison Brothers Distillery, Texas' first legal whiskey distillery, is already producing bourbon that's organic in all but name. ... More >>

Garrison Bros. Set to Get Texas-Made Bourbon Flowing

​Garrison Brothers is advising drinkers to saddle up their horses, but -- in the spirit of small batch whiskey -- folks might want to fire up their engines to get first crack at the Hye (that's west of Austin) distillery's flagship bourbon. Owner Dan Garrison yesterday announced 1,800 bottles ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Blended Scotch Whisky

​Generally when people sit down to discuss whisky, the conversation settles around the single malts of Islay, Speyside or the rare and unique brands from Campbeltown. But the overwhelming majority of scotch whisky sold around the world consists of blends--up to 50 different malts making up a singl ... More >>

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