MASTERING WHISKEY TO RESHAPE YOUR BRAIN'S RIGHT INSULA AND ENTORHINAL CORTEX What does it take to become accomplished at anything and why does it matter? Expertise isn't only about the p...
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A fascinating vertical tasting of Elijah Craig 12 & NAS bottlings. Photo by Michael Kravitz of Diving for Pearls blog . The bottles above as blind samples poured and ready to go on my table. ...
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On video it doesn't look like much of anything. Chuck Schumer, Senator from New York, in a suit, at a conference in Kentucky addresses Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell: "BROOKLYN, WHERE I...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2018/02/chuck-schumers-gaffe-and-why-it-matters.html
Branded as Gibson's Distilling Co. - this bottle actually contains whiskey from Stewart Distillery, Baltimore. Made prior to September, 1917. Update: My previous post announcing the upcomi...
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FYI - THIS POST WAS UPDATED WITH THE ACTUAL SELECTIONS THAT WILL BE POURED: HTTP://WWW.COOPEREDTOT.COM/2017/10/UPDATED-ACTUAL-SELECTIONS-FOR.HTML Why drink old found bottles? (The t...
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Matt Lurin hosts The Water Of Life Event What is the best whiskey event in the world? Indeed, what makes a great whisky event? Great whisky to be tasted, to be sure. But comfort, deca...
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That Harlem Rensaissance vibe... Photo by Clay Williams Jazz and dance. Photo by Clay Williams I'm headed to the Harlem Whiskey Renaissance 2017 tomorrow, Thursday March 30th, 201...
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It is a classic truism in the malt whisky world that single malts are "better than" blends. The usual reason given is that single malts are free of the "inferior" grain whisky. It's been popu...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2017/03/new-study-proves-you-cant-taste.html
Cedar Brook Plankington Reserve - photo by Chad Hartsfield Bourbon, like America, evolved from humble roots on frontier farms to something big and industrial which, in the era of America's r...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2016/07/cedar-brook-plankington-reserve-whiskey.html
Passionate whisky enthusiast Matt Lurin is hosting the second annual Water of Life whiskey event Thursday night 5/12/16 and it's not to be missed. The event serves an important charitable cau...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2016/05/why-i-am-going-to-water-of-life-event.html
Bourbon's history includes farmers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, and industrialists. It also sometimes includes operators, wise guys, and gangsters. Today's hero is a whole lot like Nucky Thomp...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2016/01/old-lancaster-three-shawhans-and-boss.html
Josh Peters' 1970s Cabin Still A year and a half ago I wrote about how the Cabin Still brand was murdered by Norton Simon corporation . It had been the entry level product of Pappy Van Wink...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/09/tasting-1970s-dusty-cabin-still.html
Josh Peters' 1970s bottle of Old Crow Tasting dusty Bourbons and pitting them against the current expressions to learn about what has changed and, all too often, what has been lost, can...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/09/old-crow-new-versus-old-tasting-1970s.html
Westland single barrel selections vatted to create the Single Cask Nation Third Jubilee Festival Bottling Westland, a five year old distillery in Seattle, is producing interesting single-ma...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/09/westland-is-kicking-butt-particularly.html
There has been a lot of excitement lately about a pretty special private barrel pick of Smooth Amber Old Scout Rye selected by Steve Zeller aka the "Smoky Beast ". Smooth Ambler's Old Scout S...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/07/smoky-beasts-barrel-of-smooth-ambler.html
Luxco , the aggregator and NDP bottler of the great defunct Bourbon brands Rebel Yell , Yellowstone , , has a new brand, a possibly interesting vatting of rye and wheat mash Bourbons. But the ...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/06/blood-oath-pact-1-luxco-makes-luxury.html
Matthew Lurin hosts The Water Of Life event . May 6th saw the birth of a new kind of whisky event : one with a both a moral purpose and a different format that lends itself to deeper tasting...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/05/the-water-of-life-event-fund-raising.html
Brenne , the single malt whisky brand from Cognac, is preparing to release a 10 year old limited edition expression this Fall. This is exciting news to people who have been seduced by the ine...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/05/brenne-10-taking-it-to-another-level.html
Photo courtesy of Xavier Wine Co. What makes a Bourbon great? Corn's sweetness melded to the smoky richness of charred oak with the glorious maillard sugars of cooked oak's red line and so...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/04/old-forester-and-old-taylor-new-versus.html
Steve Zeller, the Smoky Beast and I present a historically interesting experience. Come and taste classic 1970s dusty Old Forester BiB from DSP-KY-414 and National Distillers Old Taylor aga...
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A female spirit as the source of the juice. 1940s Guillot Triple Sec poster There is a deep symbolic connection between alcohol and femininity in art from ancient times until the current mom...
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The rising trend of drinkable grain whisky now sees a new Irish entry, joining Cooley's Greenore expressions (6, 8, 15, and 18 year old). It's Teeling Single Grain Irish whiskey, just un...
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Late 1960s Rebel Yell magazine ad.: a romantic vision of the ante-bellum South. (thanks Herb Allen, for finding this) Rebel Yell is a wheated mash bill Bourbon originally sold only in th...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2015/02/rebel-yell-past-and-future.html
A pair of 1970s Yellowstone 6 year old 86 proof minis for the Italian market. Distilled at Glenmore Distillery. Everyone agrees that change must be coming to Craft whiskey, but what form wi...
http://www.cooperedtot.com/2014/12/limestone-branch-and-craft-whiskeys.html
When Prohibition ended, Pappy Van Winkle, and his partners A. Ph. Stitzel and Alex Farnsley incorporated Stitzel-Weller and began building the legendary distillery by that name which has arous...
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