Heads & Tails HEADS & TAILS: ST. PADDY’S DAY ’22 EDITION Drink up, lads and lasses! It’s St. Patrick’s Day! (Well, it’s a workday, too, so perhaps you should obey that directive after 5 p.m.) If you’re compelled to drink some Irish whiskey today, why not have it in the most classic of all Irish drinks.
Heads & Tails HEADS & TAILS: “SMOKE AND BARRELS” EDITION According to a news release, the world’s largest cooperage saw the increased popularity for spirits with “smokey” character and decided to develop a barrel offering smoke characteristics not achievable by traditional toasting or charring methods.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Bulked Up Edition The old saying, “Flaunt it if you got it,” applies well here. Even better, “Auction it if you’ve got it, and help others in the process” is even cooler. Distilleries prove time and again that they’re generous businesses.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Stray Cats Edition Early sips of the HHHC release bode well for an upcoming review. No sample yet for the OFBIB, but I’ll be interested in tasting this very, very Old Fitz. In recent years I’ve tended to like younger Fitz releases better. But who knows? Maybe this geezer bottle will impress.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Barrels and Blending Edition Oy, have we got a marketing story here! This one reaches all the way back to J. Frederick Hillerich, a German woodworker who immigrated to Louisville in 1842. Hillerich’s core business was barrel making.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: “THE ONE MORE DREADED ‘CELEBOTTLE’” EDITION File this under “We wish could have made this up, but it’s fo’ real.” Top-ranked UFC fighter and Lafayette, La., native Dustin Poirier has launched a new bourbon named Rare Stash.
Banter Heads & Tails: “Back in the Grave” Edition In Chuck Cowdery’s early 2022 edition of his quarterly print piece, “The Bourbon Country Reader,” he says MGP should kill off the George Remus brand and find another name for the otherwise good bourbon created for that SKU.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: I Wouldn’t Wish For It Edition Ever played this whiskey dork game? You go to a bar or restaurant and rapid-survey the bottles while thinking, “Had it. Haven’t. Have it. Hate it.” When I looked at this list of 20 top-selling whiskeys in the U.S., I added a new response. “Who drinks that?”
Banter Heads & Tails: Are Single Barrels Illegal Edition That’s the growing concern at Kentucky distilleries, where thousands of whiskey fans sample whiskeys from thousands of barrels every year.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Bourbon & Rye 2016 Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Bourbon & Rye 2016 Edition. It’s been a while since we’ve shared a Heads & Tails post since putting them on hold during Bourbon Heritage Month.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Dead Tired Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Dead Tired Edition. Why ‘The Dead Tired’ edition? Because that’s what I am. I’m worn out.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: The Alright Alright Alright Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – the Alright Alright Alright Edition. We’ve had one hell of a week here at B&B HQ. So we’re pretty damn excited that it’s Friday and that the weekend is only a matter of hours away.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: It’s About Time It’s Friday Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – the It’s About Time It’s Friday Edition. We’ve had one hell of a week here at B&B HQ. So we’re pretty damn excited that it’s Friday and that the weekend is only a matter of hours away.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Whiskey Collective Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Whiskey Collective Edition. It’s been a busy week around the Bourbon & Banter HQ in St. Louis. We’ve been having a lot of fun hanging out with fellow bourbon and whiskey bloggers who came to town for a bourbon tasting lab hosted by Luxco.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Wetter Is Better Than Dry Edition Welcome to this week’s installment of Heads & Tails – The Wetter is Better Than Dry Edition. This is only the 2nd installment of this new feature but the feedback so far has been fantastic. We’re still working out the layout so don’t be shy in dropping us a note on what you do and don’t like.
Heads & Tails Heads & Tails: Why The Hell Not Edition Testing out a new weekly feature on the blog today. Every week we receive a lot of press releases and updates from across the whiskey industry and beyond.
