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Whiskey

Toe Master Terry Lee with the bar's newest toe!

Someone Donated His Frostbitten Toe to a Canadian Bar

The legend of the Sourtoe Cocktail continues.

Evan Nicole Brown June 13, 2019

Alexandria, Virginia

George Washington's Distillery

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Cranachan

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

Burying Bourbon

In the American South, some believe it deters rain on one's wedding day.

Sherry has been crucial to scotch-making for centuries.

How Sherry Became the Secret to Great Scotch

Scottish and Spanish spirits have a symbiotic relationship.

Benjamin Kemper July 17, 2018

Mellow Corn Whiskey

Long relegated to moonshine jars, aged corn whiskey is finally getting respect outside Kentucky.

The feed will be used for commercially-produced Scottish salmon.

A Firm Is Now Making Fish Food From Whisky

Unfortunately, it won't make the salmon taste like scotch.

Natasha Frost June 6, 2018

Scotland's Glenesk Hotel, which boasts many a whiskey variety.

You Can Buy Into the World’s First Publicly Traded Whiskey Investment Fund

A way to invest in "liquid gold."

Paula Mejia January 23, 2018

Not the $10,000 dram.

The $10,000 Whisky Dram That Turned Out to Be Worthless

A refund was involved.

Natasha Frost November 2, 2017

The Hokonui Moonshine Museum.

Gore, New Zealand

Hokonui Moonshine Museum

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

A set of picklebacks with extra pickle flavor.

Pickleback

A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.

Scottish whiskies taste "spicier" and "peatier" than their foreign counterparts, because chemistry.

The Best Way to Drink Whiskey Is With a Bit of Water, After All

Diluters, consider yourselves absolved.

Natasha Frost August 17, 2017

The HMAS Sydney was secretly carrying a bottle of whisky all this time.

Found: A Bottle of Whisky Hidden in a Ship’s Mast

It spent 35 years at sea.

Sarah Laskow June 28, 2017

Real or fake?

How to Catch a (Whiskey) Counterfeiter

Use science to make it glow.

Kelsey Kennedy June 9, 2017

Old pot stills

Westmeath, Ireland

Kilbeggan Distillery

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

Bardstown, Kentucky

Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

society adventures

Introducing the Intoxicating Spirits Salon Series in San Francisco

Annetta Black September 16, 2013

Van Brunt Moonshine

Brooklyn, New York

Van Brunt Stillhouse

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.