With the recently signed Craft New York Act finally going into effect, small-batch distilleries are now able to serve full-fledged cocktails instead of the shot-like samplers they were once limited to. The new ease of liquor regulations aims to make these boutique distilleries more attractive to tourists and locals in New York, and hopefully elsewhere soon enough. Craft distilleries are already making plans to open …
There’s a reason why Dewar’s is most likely your father’s, and grandfather’s, whisky. It’s more than their heritage (which dates back to 1846) and it extends well beyond their groundbreaking commercial done with the Edison Illuminating Company back in 1898—the first live-motion advertisement to be made. Really, it’s about the blend. They successfully combine over 40 single malts, mostly obtained from competitors’ distilleries (a method …
Back in 1954, the distillery for Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey shuttered its doors in midland Ireland’s town of Tullamore. Production didn’t cease, but rather shifted to the famed Midleton Distillery, home of many other Irish whiskies. When the family-run independent distilling organization William Grant & Sons purchased the brand in 2010, they knew it deserved its own home—in its origin city. Some €35 million later, …
