• Knob Creek 9 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review

    Updated: 2012-09-30 04:21:43
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog Knob Creek 9 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review Knob Creek 9 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review Rachel Halpren Saturday , September 29, 2012 Named after a little creek that ran by Abraham Lincoln’s childhood home , Knob Creek was created by Booker Noe , grandson of James Beam and sixth generation Master Distiller . Booker wanted to create a Super-Premium bourbon in the pre-prohibition . style Knob Creek is a traditional bourbon with approx 70 corn and equal parts wheat and rye . It is aged for 9 years in 4-charred oak barrels and made in small batches . This process provides a sweet corn notes and a full bodied flavor versus the

  • Baker’s 7 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review

    Updated: 2012-09-30 04:02:07
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog Baker’s 7 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review Baker’s 7 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review Rachel Halpren Saturday , September 29, 2012 Baker’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is aged for seven years in new oak barrels . It is a small batch bourbon made from the favorite recipe of Baker Beam , Grandnephew of Jim . Beam Appearance : clear , medium amber with bronze hues and viscous legs Nose : clean , medium with mellow notes of corn , grain , butterscotch , vanilla , oak with a touch of cream Palate : Dry , well integrated alcohol with a slight drying quality , medium notes of corn , grain , cinnamon , nutmeg , floral , vanilla

  • Dancing Pines Bourbon Whiskey Review

    Updated: 2012-09-30 02:27:15
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog Dancing Pines Bourbon Whiskey Review Dancing Pines Bourbon Whiskey Review Rachel Halpren Saturday , September 29, 2012 This bourbon hails from a small craft distillery in Loveland Colorado the brainchild of a wife-husband-husband’s father combo Dancing Pines is one of many new craft distilleries that have been popping up across America that have embraced the modern American whiskey renaissance with it’s bourbon whiskey . Yes , Dancing Pines does produce a bourbon . We like to point that out as many people think that bourbon can only come from Kentucky . Bourbon can come from anywhere in the United States but only Kentucky bourbon can come from . Kentucky As

  • A night in the country: Food, fog and HalloWine

    Updated: 2012-09-29 22:15:01
    ALTAMONT — The weather always seems to cooperate, in a perverse way, for the HalloWine Festival at Altamont Vineyards & Winery. Friday night, the start of the 3rd annual three-day event, saw not only a lineup of local chefs in a competition, but a large crowd braving rain, fog and general eerieness on country backroads [...]

  • Albany Distilling Co. sets a Friday grand opening

    Updated: 2012-09-29 22:12:46
    ALBANY — At one time, this city was a serious place for the creation of beers, some wines and even some distilled spirits. The latter category will be represented for the first time since the end of Prohibition when the Albany Distilling Company holds its grand opening on Friday (October 5). Go here for the [...]

  • Water Cocktails

    Updated: 2012-09-29 19:46:07
    One of the hottest trends this year has been Water Cocktails! You may ask, what is a water cocktail? I had that same question when I first heard the term. ...Read More

  • Autumn Apple

    Updated: 2012-09-29 03:03:15
    Fall is here once again and this weeks drink combines the wonderful Autumn flavors of apple and cranberry,  Spiked with warming absinthe and the zing of ginger, this one will warm you insider and out… <a href="http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/drink_recipes/autumn-apple/" class="read_more"Read more

  • King of the Dipshits

    Updated: 2012-09-28 02:20:20
    Gosh. Romney has cornered the "libertarian vote." And if that were a thing that matters, that would be a thing that matters.

  • It’s Octoberfest season throughout the Capital Region

    Updated: 2012-09-26 20:16:22
    Octoberfest. Oktoberfest. Octobeerfest. No matter how you spell it, beer- and Germanic-themed events are the norm in Autumn throughout the Capital Region. This coming weekend, for example, we have the Oktoberfest and Craft Festival in Esperance, the Brunswick Elks Lodge Octoberfest, the Oktoberfest Beer Pairing Dinner in Lake Placid, and the first of two weekend [...]

  • Chefs’ competition part of Altamont HalloWine Fest

    Updated: 2012-09-25 22:36:44
    ALTAMONT — Five high-profile local chefs will be vying for top honors on the opening evening of the 3rd annual HalloWine Fest at Altamont Vineyards & Winery. Go here for the lineup and details of the three-day event. Click here for the Capital Region’s best food and drink events calendar.

  • Latest Downtown Albany Restaurant Week Oct. 13-19

    Updated: 2012-09-25 21:04:07
    ALBANY — The 8th bi-annual Downtown Albany Restaurant Week is getting closer. Fourteen restaurants are signed up for the promotional event, scheduled to run from 5 p.m. Saturday, October 13, through 10 p.m. Friday, October 19. Reservations are recommended. Participating venues will be offering special three-course meals for $20.12 each. Go here for a list [...]

  • Head for the hills for a coastal wine and food festival

    Updated: 2012-09-24 21:23:49
    For some people, Autumn is a great time to drive through the mountains, what with the foliage changing color and the crispness of the air now that summer has departed. For others, a trip to the coast to enjoy the solitude along the water now that the tourists have departed is the perfect weekend. Within [...]

  • Buddha whatever tripped up by a reality check

    Updated: 2012-09-24 20:30:34
    ALBANY — First, one group announced the debut of a nightclub called Buddha & Zen Lounge the weekend of September 22. Then, another group, saying those people had no connection with what actually should be referred to as the restaurant-nightclub Buddha Tea House, also announced a debut for the same weekend. As it turned out, [...]

  • Dolce Vita officially opening in Schenectady

    Updated: 2012-09-23 22:42:22
    SCHENECTADY — Randy Loren’s Dolce Vita Ristorante, which has been put together in fits and starts, finally will have its “official” grand opening. Go here for a look at the restaurant/nightclub. Click here for the Capital Region’s best food and drink events calendar.

  • Revitalized Broadway Brew continues the party

    Updated: 2012-09-23 22:39:07
    Nice pongs, team! TROY — Owner Kareem Jandali knows how to attract attention to his Facebook postings. Just look over there ➜ at a typical piece of  artwork he chose to remind people that his Broadway Brew Biergarten is holding a beer pong tournament tonight. Go here for details, plus an update on how the [...]

  • Berlin shop owner offering cut-rate NY wines, spirits

    Updated: 2012-09-22 22:47:48
    BERLIN — Owner Cheryl Thibodeau of Vonadeau Wine and Spirits is going all-out to celebrate Autumn. Beginning today, the first day of the new season, and through the end of October she is offering 15-30% off the prices of all New York-made wines and spirits in stock. Vonadeau Wine and Spirits is located at 70 [...]

  • Black Lily

    Updated: 2012-09-22 19:40:51
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog Black Lily Black Lily No Ratings Yet Loading Jonas Halpren Saturday , September 22, 2012 Add this recipe to ZipList Created by Mixologist Kyle Ford , this week’s drinks , is also the official drink of 2012 San Francisco Cocktail Week . Made of only three ingredients , Cointreau , Ferent Branca and Lime Juice . What you get is a bit of sweet and sour chased by minty freshness . Says Ford , The name , Black Lily , is an indirect reference to Lillie Hitchcock Coit 1842-1929 legendary North Beach eccentric , avid gambler , drinker , and fire(wo man . Legend has it , Ms . Lillie left 118,000 to the city of San Francisco which was used to build the Coit Tower . I

  • A Taste of Bourbon

    Updated: 2012-09-18 17:38:17
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog A Taste of Bourbon A Taste of Bourbon Rachel Halpren Tuesday , September 18, 2012 Each September marks Bourbon Heritage Month . While there are other spirits with connections to America think colonial rum and apple brandy no spirit is as quintessentially American as bourbon . Bourbon is an amber colored whiskey that must be made from a mash consisting of a majority of corn , matured in charred American oak barrels and bottled at no less than 80 proof . Bourbon is often associated with Kentucky but bourbon can be made anywhere in the United States as long as it meets certain criteria . That criteria is that i the whiskey must be made in the United States ii

  • The Rules

    Updated: 2012-09-17 04:45:19
    When video surfaces of a United States ambassador killed by an angry foreign mob, the correct first patriotic response is to blame the president of the United States. Fascinating.

  • 10 Fun Facts for Bourbon Heritage Month [InfoGraphic]

    Updated: 2012-09-12 01:44:31
    Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Eats Bar Supplies Home Cocktail Blog 10 Fun Facts for Bourbon Heritage Month InfoGraphic 10 Fun Facts for Bourbon Heritage Month InfoGraphic Jonas Halpren Tuesday , September 11, 2012 September is Bourbon Heritage Month Did you know The U.S . Senate signed Bourbon Heritage Month” into law in 2007, reinforcing the 1964 Act of Congress that declared bourbon America’s Native . Spirit” Bourbon production has more than doubled since 1999 and the state of Kentucky currently has 4.9 million barrels gently aging , the highest inventory since 1978. That’s about 262 million gallons of Bourbon . There’s 2 more facts for you : Tags Booze News Bourbon Whiskey Events The Artisan Soda Workshop Literary Monday

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