SPIRITS WE LOVE: Five Must Try Double Gold Ryes
Our expert judging panel discovered many new favorite bottles during the blind tasting at the Spring 2021 John Barleycorn International Spirits competition.…
Whiskey Class Part I: A Brief History of Whiskey
Class is in session! To keep your whiskey game on point we’ve tapped Barleycorn contributor Robin Robinson who compiled excerpts from his most excellent book,…
How Craft Whiskey Made Bottled-In-Bond Relevant, And The Best Bottles To Drink Now
Consumer protection laws have made significant progress in the last 124 years so that bottling "in bond" is no longer necessary to prove that what’s on the…
Quick Shot! Barleycorn’s Two Minute Guide To What’s New In Spirits
Basil Hayden Toast results from the Jim Beam Harvest Bourbon Collection, an experimental bourbon series released in 2015 featuring six bourbons with…
Whiskey Rebels Part III: How ADI, ACSA, And DISCUS Elevated Craft Spirits
Part III of the Whiskey Rebels excerpt series focuses on advocacy and education. Craft visionaries like Westward’s Tom Mooney and ADI founder Bill Owens…
The Pros Pick The Ultimate Tasting Glass, And It Might Not Be What You Think
There’s no shortage of advice on the internet about nosing a spirit. One “controversial” technique recently spotted is holding the glass to your chin for fruit…
SPOTLIGHT: Don Q’s Roberto Serrallés Doubles Down On Fine Rum And A Greener Puerto Rico
It was a shock to nobody that 6th generation Puerto Rican rum maker Roberto Serrallés followed his father’s footsteps in the rum distilling business—except…
Fred Minnick On The Strange Case Of The Missing Pappy Van Winkle
In 2013, somebody had stolen a lot of Pappy Van Winkle from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, and Barleycorn Judge and Bourbon Curious author Fred Minnick covered…
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Check out Barleycorn Contributor and author of The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book, Frank Caiafa’s review of Vermont’s honey-laden Barr Hill Gins from Caledonia Spirits, then serves up a few perfect cocktails with which to enjoy.
Is Imitation the sincerest form of flattery? When it comes to lifting a writer’s work and claiming it for your own, chances are they’ll feel more litigious than flattered. It happened to Barleycorn judge and contributor Tony Sachs, who discusses being thieved by a French website, and what he did about it.
In The Daily Beast, Barleycorn’s Wayne Curtis’ focuses on Cooper Spirits’ resurgence, purveyors of Hochstadlers Slow & Low Rock-and-Rye, after founder Rob Cooper’s passing in 2016.
This week Amanda Schuster de-mystifies the seemingly complicated sherry category by exploring Lustau’s incredible portfolio at Forbes.com.
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