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Barrell Craft Spirits Rolls Out The Blended Barrell Bourbon

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Kentucky blending house Barrell Craft Spirits has rolled out the Barrell Bourbon blends – a pair of blended bourbons with different cask finishes – for their new Barrell Bourbon Cask Finish series which will feature two blends each year. Barrell Craft Spirits Amburana Bourbon is a blend of select Indiana and Kentucky-made bourbons with a […]

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Heineken Makes Social Swap

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Heineken pulled a fast one on poor, unsuspecting football fans when they employed former England international football players-turned-pundits, Jill Scott and Gary Neville, to switch their social media accounts as part of a Heineken® gender bias social experiment entitled, “The Social Swap” with, unfortunately, predictable responses as Scott’s account featuring comments by Neville was on […]

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Finland’s Kyro Unveils Quartet Of Whiskies

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Finnish distillery Kyrö has released a quartet of whiskies – Kyrö Malt, Kyrö Wood Smoke, Kyrö Oloroso and Kyrö Peat Smoke – all made from 100% Finnish rye, that form the distillery’s core whisky range. Kyrö Malt is double-distilled and matured for three years in new American white oak casks, bottled at 47.2% alcohol by […]

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Bruichladdich Brings Out Octomore 14

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Bruichladdich Distillery has released Octomore 14 – their annual trio of heavily-peated single malts – consisting of the Octomore 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3 – which have been released since 2008. All three Bruichladdich Octomore single malts are matured for five years, bottled ‘close to cask strength’ and are always heavily peated [to a whopping 309 […]

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Compass Box Revives Metropolis For Extinct Blends Quartet Series

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Metropolis whisky

UK-based whisky bottler/producer Compass Box has released Metropolis, the third of an expected four entries in their limited edition Extinct Blends Quartet series, which celebrates blends that have been ‘lost to history’. Compass Box Metropolis initially spent time in sherry casks, was bottled at 49% alcohol by volume [98 proof] and is said to offer […]

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Highland Park Sets Off To London

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Highland Park is headed off to London with the release of their 18-year-old London Edition as part of their Single Cask Series of single malt whiskies. Highland Park London Edition began life being matured for 18 years in a re-fill sherry-seasoned European oak cask before being bottled at 58.5% alcohol by volume [117 proof] and […]

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The Macallan Gets Colorful With New Collection

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The Macallan has released their new Colour Collection – a collection of five age-statement single malt whiskies consisting of 12-, 15-, 18-, 21- and 30-year-old single malts. The Macallan Colour Collection single malt whiskies were matured primarily in American oak casks, with a ‘subtle touch’ of European oak. The Macallan 12 Years Old is said […]

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Salvaged Rosebank 31-Year Coming To The USA

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31-Year-Old single malt whisky from Lowlands distillery, Rosebank, will be available in the USA after initially being available in August 2022 in the UK. The Lowlands distillery was closed in 1993, then purchased by Ian Macleod Distillers in 2017 and is currently scheduled to be re-opened in 2024. Rosebank 31-year-old single malt whisky was saved […]

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Jeff Goes To The Tropics

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Pernod Ricard-owned Jefferson’s Bourbon has released – Tropics Aged In Humidity: Finished In Singapore – a bourbon aged in the Singapore heat as the initial entry in their climate-focused Tropics series. Jefferson’s Tropics Aged in Humidity: Finished in Singapore began as Kentucky straight Bourbon, matured four to five years in Kentucky before being finished 18 […]

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Crispin Cider – Don’t Call It A Comeback

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Crispin Cider has re-launched after spending two years in limbo, after a licensing agreement between parent company Molson Coors and the newly created Minneapolis Cider Company was finalized. Crispin was originally founded in 2004, then acquired by Molson Coors [then Miller Coors] in 2012, but shuttered in 2021. Meanwhile, nearby Minneapolis Cider Company opened in […]

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