For decades, golf has been the standard backdrop for business deals, networking, and building relationships outside the office. Tee times doubled as meeting invites, and a well-played round could cement a partnership as much as a signed contract. But times are changing. Today, bourbon is beginning to take that place as the ultimate social lubricant […]
If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a bourbon Facebook group, you’ve likely witnessed a few recurring characters. Maybe you’ve laughed. Maybe you’ve cringed. Maybe you’ve been personally victimized by someone selling a bottle of Blanton’s for $400 “firm.” Welcome to the beautiful, ridiculous, and obsessively judgmental world of online bourbon communities — where […]
Let’s set the scene: You walk through the door, heart pounding with pride and just a hint of bourbon-fueled guilt. Cradled in your arms is a bottle you’ve been chasing for months—maybe years. It might be a George T. Stagg, a Four Roses Limited Edition, hell maybe even a Pappy. Whatever it is, it’s rare, […]
Have you ever been sitting around having a snort of bourbon and heard someone say something like “that just needs to sit for a bit,” or “Let’s let it breathe.” Maybe you’ve even heard that when pouring a glass, you need to let it sit for a number of minutes to rest before enjoying a […]
Throughout the past decade, bourbons popularity has exploded, and bottles have gone from just a fixture on a home bar to a sought-after collectible – and in some cases, an investment-grade asset. The rise of bourbon has been accompanied by the development of a strong secondary market where limited releases, discontinued bottles, and other prized […]
When you go to pick out a bourbon, you could do so based on tasting notes like “hints of leather and tater dust” but where exactly is the fun in that? The real question of the day is, “which bourbon fits the chaotic, charming, occasionally questionable human being that you are?” So, pour a glass, […]
Much to the delight of liquor store employees the world over, the five words that have been spoken a billion times a day the last number of years, those words of course being, “do you have any Blantons?” has started to allay. For years, bottles like Blanton’s, Weller 12, E.H. Taylor Single Barrel, and Elmer […]
As I was sitting out in my garage bar this weekend, a FedEx truck came rumbling up, a noticeable departure from the humming of the electric Amazon van whizzing around hitting what seemed to be every door on the block. I knew this delivery was going to be a good one. Greeting the gentleman at […]
Buff Turkey is a term that has been gaining a lot of attention on the secondary market and with bourbon aficionados in recent months. Various NDP’s or “non-distiller producers” those who don’t make their own juice but rather purchase from others and sell under their own brand name, have been pushing out sourced bourbon that […]
What now feels like an eon ago, was merely a week and a half back that I returned home from a short cruise to the Bahamas in celebration of a good friends’ milestone birthday. We had the best time, but this was only the second cruise I’d ever been on (with the first being a […]
