Much Ado About Grain Whisk[e]y

There’s been a lot of noise about Single Grain Whisk[e]ys. In recent months, I’ve seen launches, blog posts and promoted features highlighting Single Grain whiskies from Ireland (Teeling, Greenore), Scotland (HAIG Club) and Japan (Nikka Coffey Grain). The most prominent of these launches may have been for HAIG Club, which featured David Beckham as the brand’s global ambassador….

Inside One Eight Distillery

  One Eight runs its distilling operations Monday through Friday and hosts guest tours on Saturday. I tagged along for one of the weekend tours. The name One Eight refers to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which established the nation’s capital. The stills made their first runs December 2015, so they had only been operating a…

Hello world! (A tequila primer)

Welcome to the inaugural Bodacious Booze Blog post. You can learn more about this site and the author on the about page. But there’s so much booze out there and not enough time to waste talking about the author. There’s a lot of confusion out there with tequila. Gold, Plata, Blanco, Añejo, Reposado – keeping…