Whiskey Facts – Page 4 – Dram Devotees

Why So Defensive About Sourced Whiskey?

I was asked at the Dram Devotee’s Whistle Pig tasting on Thursday, “Why do you sound so defensive when you are speaking about sourced whiskey?” It must be true that […]

Happy Repeal Day!

Posted on: December 5, 2015December 5, 2015History , Prohibition , Whiskey Facts

Happy Repeal Day! On December 5th, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed and the “Great Experiment” of Prohibition was brought to an end. (The Amendment […]

Hip Flasks

Posted on: November 30, 2015April 21, 2023American whiskey , History , Packaging , Prohibition , Reference , Whiskey Facts

I bought myself a porcelain hip flask, and it got me thinking about the history of these ingenious devices. The flask is the descendant of the canteen and the pilgrim […]

Why Is Kentucky Home To So Many Distilleries?

Posted on: November 23, 2015November 23, 2015American whiskey , History , Production , Reference , Whiskey Facts

We all know that there are lots of distilleries in Kentucky. Why Kentucky? There are many reasons for Kentucky maintaining its hold on whiskey production in the United States during […]

Jim Murray’s World Whisky of the Year for 2016 goes to…

Posted on: November 20, 2015Canadian Whisky , Distillation , Distilleries , History , International Whiskies , mashbills , Production , Reference , Rye , Wheat , Whiskey Facts

So the news is out that Crown Royal’s Northern Harvest Rye was named the 2016 World Whisky of the Year by renowned whiskey writer Jim Murray. This news will most […]

Whiskey and Baseball.

Posted on: November 19, 2015October 25, 2022American whiskey , History , Production , Whiskey Facts

Nothing is more American than Whiskey, Baseball, and Apple Pie. Only, it turns out apple pie isn’t originally American at all…Apples aren’t even native to the Americas. So I’m just […]

What defines whisk(e)y?

Posted on: November 18, 2015American whiskey , Reference , Scotch , Taxes , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey laws and regulations

So what determines what whisk(e)y is anyway? Government laws and regulations do. They have changed over the years, but as whiskey becomes a larger contributor to government budgets (through taxes) […]

Jim Beam’s “Small Batch” Collection

Posted on: November 16, 2015November 16, 2015American whiskey , Bourbon , Distilleries , History , mashbills , Master Distiller , Whiskey Facts

Jim Beam is one of the most famous names in the American whiskey world. The historic roots of the Beam family cover over 200 years in bourbon making, but the […]

Herman Melville’s Rye Whiskey Reference

Posted on: November 14, 2015December 1, 2022Aging Techniques , American whiskey , History , mashbills , Reference , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey laws and regulations

Today is the day that Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was published by New York’s Harper and Brothers in 1851. There is a reference in the book that connects whiskey to […]

Every Man Deserves His D.E.W.

Posted on: November 12, 2015November 12, 2015Distilleries , History , Irish Whiskey , Production , Whiskey Facts

Every man deserves his dew…Tullamore Dew, that is. The new Tullamore Dew Distillery opened its doors and began distilling whiskey in Tullamore, County Offaly In Septemebr 2014. This new state […]