Brat summer continues apace, as the season of green chartreuse–shaded iconography and cheerfully messy fun in the sun sets its sights on going out with a BANG! To cap off this moment of frivolously coloring outside the lines of life, we’ve summoned a spirit category that’s no stranger to challenging conventions and charting the course…
Tag: American whiskey
Bourbon Legend
Fantastical fables and other bits of cock-and-bull chronicling: the historical records of spirits and of cocktails are littered with them! Too often the big innovations from behind the bar that dot the timeline can all claim multiple creators, sometimes even thousands of miles or decades apart. But you can keep your grains of salt reserved…
New Frontiers 2: American Single Malt
The ground will shift throughout the wide world of whiskey as the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is about to bestow its official stamp of recognition onto a new category of domestic whiskey: American single malt. This decision will establish a set of parameters for what makes this category distinct—100% malted barley…
One Singular Sensation
American Single Malt Whiskey Forges a Path Forward Quietly over the past few decades, a brand-new domestic spirits category has slowly come into its own. While rye was rolling through a great resurgence and bourbon was maintaining its status as a behemoth, American single malt whiskey (ASMW) officially stepped onto the podium; what began in…
All Eyes on Rye
The story of rye, both as a crop and style of whiskey, is one of resilience and heritage. As the long winter’s approaching and a farmer needs something to last the season and protect and enrich their soil through lingering low temperatures, rye’s a mighty fine go-to. When Prohibition knocked rye whiskey off the top…
New Frontiers
Amid his work as an innovator in the fields of art and science, Leonardo da Vinci, the quintessential Renaissance man, once famously observed, “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes.” Although da Vinci spoke these words more than 500 years ago,…
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