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Like Making Music: The Secrets of Canadian Whisky with Found North Blender Nick Taylor

Drinkhacker

We started in 2020, right as Covid hit. In the last 10 years, you have all of these non-whisky categories like rum and agave being consumed by serious whisky drinkers under the conditions of transparency. Look at Foursquare Rum. By 2020 when there were about 1.7 Drinkhacker: How did Found North come about? government.

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The Mount Rushmore of Rye, According to 7 Whiskey Experts

VinePair

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. All spirits must be American rye whiskeys. It must be a rye whiskey under the definition during the period in which it was bottled. Interviewees could only choose rye whiskeys they’ve personally sampled. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all.

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Whiskey Review: Cedar Ridge The QuintEssential Portside

The Whiskey Wash

image via Cedar Ridge) Editor’s Note: We received a review sample of this whiskey from the brand. Iowa’s Cedar Ridge is an American whiskey distillery with some history behind it, at least by craft distilling history standards. Read the full article at Whiskey Review: Cedar Ridge The QuintEssential Portside

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New Releases: Chattanooga, Shelter Distilling, & Old Forester

The Whiskey Wash

New American whiskey and bourbon releases include a Bottled-in-Bond expression from Chattanooga, a peated expression from Shelter Distilling, and a rum finish from Old Forester. The new straight bourbon whiskey was distilled at Chattanooga ’s Riverfront Distillery barreled from January 2020 through to June of the same year.

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The Top 10 Whiskeys of 2023

Drinkhacker

We’ve tempered our taste for four-figure spirits this time around, and while most of the whiskeys we picked for 2023 cost more than $100, only one lands in what we’d consider unicorn territory. As always, we’re revealing one whiskey each day over the next 10 days until we hit #1 on Christmas Eve. Want more selections?

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Diageo acquires Ritual Zero Proof

Spiritz

Ritual brand’s award-winning portfolio contains alternatives to whiskey, tequila, gin, rum and aperitif, which can all be substituted one-to-one with traditional spirits to create non-alc versions of well-known recipes, enabling the brand to participate credibly in top cocktail serves and occasions.

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Brandy and Cognac Trends for 2024

Cheers

In addition to intense competition from tequila, domestic whiskey and the ready-to-drink (RTD) segments, brandy and Cognac had to contend with economic pressures, as inflation put a crimp in some discretionary spending. Volume consumption for the brandy and Cognac category declined 10.2% in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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