It’s a battle of unknowns, as you, the reader, gets to decide which of these smaller brands gets to make it into the final four of the Reader’s Bracket. Is it Leopold’s Small Batch ...
To travel is to learn. This is what I believe. Either we learn about where we go, about ourselves, or about how to navigate new, unseen situations. These are good things, it’s safe to admit. An...
I’ve been playing around with a simple question: Why do we go to the places we go to? And, as I sit here, a mere 24 hours before leaving for a New York City weekend, I ask in this instance, why...
Everyone has that one alcohol, that one drink that they detest. Usually the result of an unfortunate binge, this detestation shapes the way one thinks. From “Oh God, Tequila is vile!” to ...
The first round is done. There’s not much more to say to this, other than this was a belabored way to separate the wheat from the chaff, and now we have 8 gins left that are respectable. The pr...
We are now, officially, in the second round of competition. The stakes are higher, the quality of competition increases, and the ability to enjoy gin fully becomes a happy side effect of all of this ...
‘Cause I’m still celebrating.
The above is not one of my better photographs, but for one taken without caffeine, it’ll have to do. That being said, I want to let you know that Sweet Tooth is here. Well, not yet, technically...
Delmonicos circa 1902 If ever there were an example that gave insight into my own character, this is likely it. Here I am, a week or so from heading to New York City, a city filled with world renown ...
The worst part of this bracket breakdown is that there has to be losers. When I compare one gin against another, a preference, no matter how small, will make itself known, and invariably the loser wi...
And we’re down to the final two contestants in this contest, each lesser known gins, overall. On one side, we have Bulldog Gin, a London Dry Gin done in the traditional style. On the other side...
Because I need a palate cleanser for the recent spate of stupidity I’ve had to deal with.
The arrogance of these corporations, and the people that represent them, is, at times, jaw-dropping. On Tuesday, 2 days after the award, I (James) took a phone call from Kenny Mitchell, Chairman of t...
A brief, yet insightful, look at the artisinal distiller by the folks at Made By Hand.
The above picture is a lithograph of a dinner celebrating the life and celebrity of Washington Irving. While I have interesting in the first Knickerbocker, he’s not the purpose of this post. In...
There’s a lesson somewhere within my review below, for you young distillers out there. I’ll let you try to suss it out on your own, but (*hint, hint*), a higher ABV is not necessarily a g...
This post will make more sense when combined with one that will be published later this week. But I do have to set some measure of groundwork, at least from a historical perspective. When doing a qui...
I did not set out to put to gins from San Francisco up against one another. That was the fault of the bracket software I use who chooses opponents randomly. None the less, their results gives us an i...
Yeah, yeah, I’m going outside of the my current rules for the site, and I’m talking about food politics. The Foie Gras wars have heated up again, with California banning the liver, and va...
Yes, another Vimeo video. However, this is a test, as I’m trying to see how to connect such a video to a spotlight position. There is an additional bonus here, as the data in the vimeo video sh...
Yup, I’m getting geared up for our trip. And I’m realizing that there’s no possible way for me to cover every topic I want to before I go. Which means…A reason to go back!
When it comes to cities, it’s rare to be able to look back in history and point to one person and go “This is the guy! This is the man that made <insert city name here> the city tha...
Here’s another big name vs. small name battle, with Tanquery, owned by spirits giant Diageo, going up against cult favorite Leopold’s Small Batch Gin definitely not owned by a spirits cor...
I suppose, upon reflection, that the outcome to this head-to-head taste test was predictable. Neither you, the reader, nor I, the writer, found Seagram’s to be all that compelling of a gin. In ...
I find myself reminiscing a fair bit about my brief stay in Venice. This has only served to add to that activity. But, oh, what a beautiful curse! (h/t to Joerg Niggli as well as Metafilter)
If one does a brief check of the internet in order to discover who “invented” gin, the first thing one encounters is a vast series of misinformation and misunderstanding. At least three d...
Via ColumnfiveMedia, a brief infographic on where the craft beer movement is today.
A brief, yet succinct overview of what exactly is a pilsner, brought to you by the fine folks at maltminute.com and Penn Brewery (located in my hometown of Pittsburgh!).
In the history of New York, there are many riots of note. There is the Police Riot, the Dead Rabbit Riots, the Flour Riot of 1837, and several others. The reason for the sheer amount of riots is actu...
This is the fourth result of the ongoing quest to find the best gin, enough so that a couple of patterns are becoming clear. For one, you, the readers, tend to migrate to the more robust gins. I, o...
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