Our New York City cocktail experts are telling BourbonBlog.com that sparkling cocktails are hot for this New Year’s Eve! By mixing champagne or sparkling wine into a cocktail you can definitely stretch your budget. Not to mention, indulge your guests with festive flavor combinations sure to impress! FIRST …at the World Bar (frequented by major… Read more »
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We always like seeing what our Bourbon friends are doing to help the wold and Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. tells BourbonBlog.com that they made donations of 1,000 meals to military families this season through its “Holiday Meals for Military Families” charity program. In partnership with Operation Homefront and nearly 30 valued business partners, Beam Global has… Read more »
A familiar friend on the bars dresses up your cocktail and taste buds for some holiday cheer! Kahlúa Peppermint Mocha flavor steps into the holiday season as a limited edition bottling. Kahlúa tells BourbonBlog.com that it will be available at retail through the holiday season, priced at around $17.99 for a 750ml bottle. Get some while… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com joins Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. in celebrating the filling of Bourbon barrel number six million. We congratulate the nation’s largest independent family-owned distilled spirits producer as being only the second continuously operating Bourbon producer to reach the historic benchmark! And in an historic coincidence, the filling of barrel number six million took place on… Read more »
Heaven Hill Distilleries tells BourbonBlog.com that Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage 2001 Bourbon will be released nationally in January of 2011. We were among the first to taste and review this new vintage straight from the barrel during their annual Evan Williams Single Barrel unveiling sneak peak for the Bardstown Whiskey Louisville’s famed Derby Museum… Read more »
AGWA de Bolivia tells BourbonBlog.com that the perfect way to “mix it up” this during the holiday season is by using Wild Bolivian coca leaves hand-picked at 2000 metres in the Andes and shipped under armed guard in 2000 Kilo Bales to Amsterdam to be macerated and de-cocainized and made into a coca leaf liqueur. This… Read more »
Brown-Forman tells BourbonBlog.com that beginning in January 2011, the Early Times brand is returning to its roots as a Bourbon. The new brand, called Early Times 354 Bourbon (354 for the original permit number for the distillery) will be bottled at 80 proof. After an absence in the US market of nearly 30 years, Early… Read more »
Four Roses Bourbon tells BourbonBlog.com that bartenders from the Louisville, Kentucky Highlands-area restaurants & bars competed in the first-ever Four Roses’ Holiday Bourbon Battle last week, giving the public the power to decide the best holiday bourbon cocktail featuring Four Roses Bourbon. O’Shea’s Irish Pub’s Mytch Law and Chris Toler came out on top with… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com was sent this fun Bulleit Bourbon video that was filmed by one of our followers in Texas, not by us. While the spirits industry sometimes discourages images of people drinking straight from the bottle, please note and watch the number of people that enjoyed sharing this bottle of Bulleit. As always, drink responsibly and… Read more »
Coca leaves have been chewed by South American Indians for thousands of years to induce a mild and long-lasting euphoria. As the world’s first and only spirit derived from the historical South American coca leaf, BourbonBlog.com tastes AGWA de Bolivia to see we experience a unique “oxygen buzz” which is said to be the “AGWA Buzz.”… Read more »