Spike Glee: The best ways to booze up a cuppa tea
Over the course of the most festive month of the year, in Spike Glee, Allison Shoemaker will explore the wonderful…
A field guide to celebrity alcohols: Like regular booze, but famous
Here is an honest statement of fact: I love Channing Tatum. Love him. It’s not in a Tiger Beat,…
Spike Glee: The best ways to booze up hot cider
Over the course of the most festive month of the year, in Spike Glee, Allison Shoemaker will explore the wonderful…
Last Call: Anyone else excited for an Edward Gorey biography?
I use Edward Gorey as a sort of friend litmus test. If you’re a fan of author/artist Gorey’s dark, Victorian…
Nick Offerman, painted bronze, slowly sips Lagavulin at a Chicago Blackhawks game
This is one of those rare, perfect occasions on which the essence of this story can really, truly be communicated by…
How to experience the glories of the Whiskey Infinity Bottle
We run a little feature here at The Takeout we call ‘Today I Learned.’ In it, we share things that we learned today.…
Kentucky bar kindly (and cannily) decides to sell Pappy Van Winkle at cost
The oldest bar in Lexington, Kentucky has decided to embrace its inner Robin Hood—well, sort of—by making one of the…
Game Of Thrones whisky is here, so Valar Drinkghulis
When a piece of pop culture becomes insanely popular, like really, really ubiquitous, it starts popping up everywhere.…
At least Kentucky’s got more bourbon in storage than in decades
At the end of a week that was definitely 27 years long, one must take good news where one can find it, and one will,…
112-year-old woman credits longevity to nightly dram of single malt whiskey
The oldest person in Great Britain celebrated her 112th birthday this week, and to mark the occasion, she gave away her…
5 rye recommendations from a fancy whiskey shopgirl
Previously, on recommendations from a fancy whiskey shopgirl, Allison Shoemaker suggested six whiskeys—mostly…
Japanese whisky sells for world-record $343,000, no big deal
A bottle of Japanese whisky sold at Hong Kong’s Bonhams Whisky Sale on August 17 for $343,000 (US), toppling both its…
6 whiskey recommendations from a fancy whiskey shopgirl
For better or worse, we at The Takeout do, in fact, read the comments—mostly for better, as y’all are a good bunch. In…
Would you buy a bottle of lab-grown whiskey?
Back in June, we checked in on some of the distilleries and bars experimenting with sound-aged or pressure-aged whiskey.…
Collapsed bourbon distillery literally picks up the pieces, one barrel at a time
In late June, a warehouse at the Barton 1792 distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky collapsed, sending 9,000 barrels of…
A beloved Japanese whisky is headed to the U.S., and we might even be able to afford it
To say that Japanese whisky (no ‘e’) is having a moment would be inaccurate, as it’s been having a moment for quite…
TIL I could start my own whiskey blend right now
There’s a certain kind of whiskey lover who, every so often, pops into the store where I moonlight as a purveyor of…
Good news/bad news: Aldi has world-class whiskey that costs under $20—you probably can't buy it
Really good scotch isn’t cheap. Decent scotch isn’t cheap. Frankly, cheap scotch usually isn’t all that cheap. That’s…
TIL you can speed-age whiskey with sound waves
It’s possible to make whiskey taste as though it’s been aged for years without actually aging it for years, and it does…