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  • Rhubarb Time
    March 22, 2025 Joe Barwin

    Rhubarb Time

    Have you seen it yet? At the market? When you do grab a bunch! Jeffrey Morgenthaler's quick and easy rhubarb syrup recipe is great in a gimlet, tom collins, margarita, whiskey sour, or daiquiri. And everything comes out pink. 🙌...

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  • American Single Malt gets its due
    January 7, 2025 Zach Berliner

    American Single Malt gets its due

    On December 18, 2024, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) added American Single Malt to its official categories of regulated spirits. Whiskey drinkers probably know that American distillers have been distilling, bottling, and selling single malt whiskies...

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  • Who's Your Toddy?
    December 6, 2024 Bitters & Bottles

    Who's Your Toddy?

    With a chill to the weather and a nip to the air, it has become one of my favorite times of the year: hot toddy season.  This lovely, warm, sweet, boozy* drink has become something of a magic elixir for...

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  • Four Roses
    October 16, 2023 Zach Berliner

    Four Roses

    What's so special about the Four Roses Ten Recipe Tasting Experience? Why is demand (and secondary pricing) for Four Roses Private Barrels so high? The history of the Four Roses brand and the distillery's unique present day approach to bourbon production offer clues. Four Roses distills ten unique recipes of bourbon and creates their standard bottlings by combining these different whiskies. For many years, Private Barrels of Four Roses (aka "Store Picks") were the only way to taste a single recipe on its own. Enthusiasts sought out these Private Barrels anywhere they could find them, hoping to collect all ten recipes. As demand for Private Barrels skyrocketed, Four Roses decided to give their fans a chance to taste all ten recipes side by side without requiring lengthy, painstaking hunting and collecting.
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  • Quinquina!
    March 30, 2020 Joe Barwin

    Quinquina!

    It's been a roller coaster of a week for quinine. After being touted as a potential coronavirus treatment - by a blockchain investor and a certain president, chloroquine (the synthetic form of quinine), became a hot topic on Fox News...

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