Here’s your latest Whiskey Wash News Round Up, but first a whiskey quote for the day from “Noah S. ‘Soggy’ Sweat, Jr., a young lawmaker from the U.S. state of Mississippi, on the subject of whether Mississippi should continue to prohibit (which it did until 1966) or finally legalize alcoholic beverages.”
But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman’s step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.
- Got at least $168 million sitting around? You can compete for ownership of a distillery up for sale in Scotland.
- Louisville, Kentucky, in the heart of Bourbon Country USA, offers a number of ways for you to get more knowledgeable on the favored whiskey type there.
- Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia in particular, is seeing a surge of new whiskey making operations.
- What do you do with a batch of ruined beer? Why, you turn it into whiskey, of course.
- Rising tensions between the USA and Russia are at least indirectly contributing to what looks to be a ban on some imported Kentucky bourbon to the latter. Potato whiskey anyone?
- “Once finished, I sat there green again, but fat and happy, full of meat, and booze, and loving every minute of it. Every cigar lover should experience the feeling of a powerful whiskey and stick like these at least once.”
- Looking for some really rare Japanese whisky at auction? Here you go.
- You know the Texas whiskey distillery Balcones has gone big time when the Scottish press does a spread on them.
- Is English whisky threatening the hold of Scotch on the United Kingdom?
- As you ponder the previous question, I leave you with word of a $5,000 Vegas cocktail that includes in its ingredients a Pappy Van Winkle 23-year-old Family Reserve bourbon.
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