BourbonBlog.com wants to see you at Kentucky Bourbon Festival and tickets are still available to some 2012 Kentucky Bourbon Festival Events September 11-16, 2012 But act quick and buy tickets here, they are going fast as Linda Harrison Executive Director of Bourbon Festival tells us! This is the 21 st annual festival is set for September 11-16,… Read more »
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The cherry flavor has made it’s way traveling through the veins of many whiskeys and bourbons where it didn’t always belong. More often that not flavored whiskeys don’t typically appeal to us at BourbonBlog.com . We review them for what they are as they stand alone AND what they can bring to cocktails. Now, here enters… Read more »
We’re getting ready to celebrate National Rum Day with the new Brugal Extra Dry and some new rum cocktails! And “National Rum Day is when?” you ask. Answer: Thursday, August 16, 2012. Brugal has accomplished what no rum has with Brugal Especial Extra Dry by catching the eye of not only BourbonBlog.com, but also mixologists… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com toasts to the closing 2012 London Olympics Closing Ceremony that included a setlist that director Kim Gavin called an “elegant mashup” of music and creativity! The ceremony was designed to show that the British Invasion never ended. In case you missed it, the live setlist is listed along with a video of The Spice Girls singing “Wannabe”… Read more »
Chinawhite tells BourbonBlog.com that Olympic gold medallists are being treated to an exclusive alcoholic cocktail priced at £2,012 (approximately $3, 150) at their trendy London nightclub. Stars such as swimmers Ryan Lochte and Chad le Clos have joined a swath of fellow Olympians by descending upon the fashionable Chinawhite club in the heart of London, a… Read more »
With the steamy New Orleans weather during Tales of the Cocktail 2012, BourbonBlog.com will take any snow and refreshment we can get. Fortunately at Tales after Dark, our friends from Breckenridge Distillery show up in front of Hotel Monteleone for some “Breckenridge Bourbon Barrel Service.”
BourbonBlog.com celebrated in New Orleans as The Spirited Awards were given to the World’s Leaders in the Spirits Industry as a part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We gathered at the new Hyatt Regency in New Orleans to honor industry leaders at Tales of the Cocktail 2012’s Annual Spirited Awards. The celebration was hosted by the lovable co-hosts Simon Ford… Read more »
Four Roses Distillery tells BourbonBlog.com that they will issue the newest release in its series of limited-quantity special bottlings with the 2012 Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon, featuring four recipes including one aged 17 years. Only 4,000 bottles of the Four Roses 2012 Limited Edition being released in September 2012, planned for distribution in U.S…. Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer catches up with the Four Roses Bourbon Team and interviews National Sales Manager Patty Holland and North America’s Director of Marketing and Sales Patrick Stewart at Tales of the Cocktail 2012 in New Orleans. As Tales of the Cocktail celebrates their 10th Anniversary this year, we learn that Four Roses will celebrate their… Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer interviews King Cocktail Dale DeGroff and Pisco Portón Master Distiller John Schuler, Pisco Portón CEO Jean-Francois Bonneté at Tales of the Cocktail. While Pisco Portón may have their sights on converting the vodka market to try new flavors, even Bourbon lovers like us have appreciation of the versatility of Pisco Porton in cocktails…. Read more »