What better way to get our livers warmed up for WhiskyFest-San Francisco than San Francisco Cocktail Week, which runs from September 21st - 27th. This is the 4th annual installment of the City's ode to all things cocktail, celebrating it's storied past (think Pisco Punch, Hotaling's Whiskey, William T. Boothby, etc.), it's craft distillery/locavore influenced present, … Continue reading SF Cocktail Week Special – A Quick Q&A with H. Joseph Ehrman
Month: September 2010
Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whisky – Review
The word fusion kind of gets a raw deal at times. Few terms in music incite as much riot and rancor as the dreaded "Jazz Fusion". This is not to say that there are not fantastic amalgams of jazz/rock/pop/etc. out there, only that the term "Jazz Fusion" evokes the very stuff of audio nightmares. Miles … Continue reading Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whisky – Review
Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky, Cask Strength – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. The penultimate Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky in my review queue. Word is these Amruts mature much, much more quickly than their aged-in-Scotland counterparts due to their luxurious tropical vacation homes. How tropical, you ask? Well, Bangalore's average Winter temperature is a smirk inducing 59°f … Continue reading Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky, Cask Strength – Review
Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. Ok, last week I tackled the two peated Amrut Indian Single Malts, this week, the non-peated versions, hopefully followed by the Fusion. First up, the Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky. I tried an older, lower alcohol version of this several months ago and wasn't … Continue reading Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky – Review
More Upcoming Bay Area Whisky Events – The K&L Wines Version
From the large, oaken desk of K&L Wine Merchants' esteemed spirits guru, David Driscoll, these upcoming events... Four Roses Bourbon Tasting with Jim Rutledge "Come meet Four Rose's Master Distiller Jim Rutledge and taste some Four Roses Bourbon as we get ready for WhiskyFest SF. Bring a bottle of our soon-to-be-released Four Rose's K&L Single … Continue reading More Upcoming Bay Area Whisky Events – The K&L Wines Version
Upcoming Bay Area Whisky Events…
Ok, my gut feeling is there's going to be a lot more than just two whisky-related events happening around here in the next month or so. I don't know, maybe my Gaelic heritage gives me some keen insight that other mere mortals don't have...but I'm pretty sure there'll be a lot going on. For now, … Continue reading Upcoming Bay Area Whisky Events…
Bargain Bin Fridays #5, Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Bourbon's have great names. Many of them titled, we can only hope, after cranky, old, Kentucky gentlemen who still wear either torn-up overalls or natty seersucker suits and bow-ties, and lock their mashbill recipes up in the same homemade safes they keep their revolvers in. An unfair stereotype, I know, but come on, put the … Continue reading Bargain Bin Fridays #5, Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Amrut Peated Indian Single Malt Whisky, Cask Strength – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. Part II of the two part look at the Amrut Peated malts... The Nose: I never learn..."go ahead, stick your nose right in there, you idiot, burn off all your nose hairs". When I see a high ABV on a bottle, it's just like … Continue reading Amrut Peated Indian Single Malt Whisky, Cask Strength – Review
Amrut Peated Indian Single Malt Whisky – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. In the 1530's a fellow named Kempe Gowda I had the Bangalore Fort built to protect this growing city of the Vijaynagar Empire. Legend has it Ol' Kempe named the city and fort Bengalooru, which was a marked improvement on the old name of … Continue reading Amrut Peated Indian Single Malt Whisky – Review
Whisky Roundtable #4
A new month is here, and in San Francisco, the coming of September means that Summer has finally begun! More importantly, a new month brings us a new Whisky Roundtable! Every month, 12 esteemed (or at least, me and 11 esteemed) whisky writers get together to weigh in on a question of weighty whisky importance. … Continue reading Whisky Roundtable #4
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