If you’ve been to the Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky, you might been to their Toll Gate Cafe. Maker’s Mark has given BourbonBlog.com this recipe for one of our favorite treats there. Join us for our special video tour of Maker’s Mark in the video below this recipe, and check our more bourbon recipes… Read more »
We review Sol, Negra Modelo Dark, Pacífico, and Spain’s Estrella Damm in the video below along with some Spanish music and “hasta el culo”
Maker’s Mark Annual Holiday Tour this year is scheduled to feature an ice skating rink, a snow machine and other wintertime activities. As all the Maker’s tours, this one is also free with the special time of 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EST on each of the scheduled nights of Saturday, December 5 and 12,… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer and Firefly Southern Grill Co-Owner Joshua Armstrong review the 2009 Parker’s Heritage “Golden Anniversary” Edition from Heaven Hill Distilleries in the episode below. Heaven Hill Master Distiller Parker Beam’s 50 years of bourbon making are celebrated in one bottle containing bourbon from each of his five decades. This rare marriage of whiskeys… Read more »
The Vieux Carré is yet another classic cocktail making a comeback. In the video below, BourbonBlog.com’s Tom Fischer demonstrates how to make a Vieux Carré using (rī)1 Ultra-premium Rye Whiskey and Hennessy Cognac VS, recipe and info below too. × The Vieux Carré * 1 ounce (rī)1 Ultra-remium Rye Whiskey * 1 ounce Hennessy Cognac… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com congratulates Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., the nation’s largest independent family-owned and operated distilled spirits producer and marketer, for being voted the best distiller in the United States for the second consecutive time during the presentation of Whisky Magazine’s U.S. Icons of Whisky America. The Icons of Whisky “celebrate the people and places behind the… Read more »
Renee Ferguson, Cookbook author, guest speaker, and “Turkey Diva” joins us on BourbonBlog.com. As a former Butterball expert, Renee has appeared on the FOOD NETWORK’s “Throwdown!” with Bobby Flay, in Southern Living and I recently I did an interview with her our sister website Tripodder.com, listen to this podcast below now! Renee also shares her… Read more »
With Black Friday approaching, our friends at Old Forester, America’s First Bottled Bourbon, tell us they have created the “Official Cocktail of Black Friday.” If you are going to be the FIRST shopper out the door in the morning hitting those Black Friday sales, then be FIRST person home in the afternoon who has their… Read more »
Arriving at the penthouse at the Soho Mews building in downtown New York City, I speak briefly with two attractive ladies working the front door and I follow a courtyard to a solitary elevator ride. At the top floor I’m quickly greeted with a classic Woodford Manhattan cocktail, and the first sip smoothly welcomes me… Read more »
Whiskey: Four Roses Mariage Collection (2009 Release) Distillery: Four Roses, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Age: 19- and 10-year-old Proof: range of 114-118, (actual bottling proof unknown) Bottle: Sample sent from the distillery, label reads “non-chill filtered” Notes:The recipe for this bourbon includes a 19-year-old and 10-year-old bourbon and from different recipes of Four Roses. For more on… Read more »