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Male Intimacy In American Whiskey Advertising Of The 1930s and 1940s
In the years between the Repeal of Prohibition and the first years after World War II there were a number of advertising campaigns in the USA that emphasized camaraderie between men, and possibly...
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Stepin Fetch It - Racist Themes In American Whiskey Advertising
Last week I discussed covert homosexuality in mid century American whiskey advertising. This week I'll be looking at racism in American whiskey advertising. It's a much bigger topic. Blacks haven't...
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Women in American Whiskey Advertising: Goddesses, Whores, Class Symbols, And...
Given the arc of the historical reviews of how stigmatized minorities appear in whiskey advertising in the USA on this blog over the past week, it's probably no surprise that my topic now is women....
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Westland Is Kicking Butt - Particularly In Recent Single Cask Nation Releases.
Westland single barrel selections vatted to create the Single Cask Nation Third Jubilee Festival BottlingWestland, a five year old distillery in Seattle, is producing interesting single-malts that...
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Old Crow New Versus Old: Tasting 1970s Against The Current Stuff In Very Good...
Josh Peters' 1970s bottle of Old CrowTasting dusty Bourbons and pitting them against the current expressions to learn about what has changed and, all too often, what has been lost, can be poignant...
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Tasting A 1970s Dusty Cabin Still
Josh Peters' 1970s Cabin StillA year and a half ago I wrote about how the Cabin Still brand was murdered by Norton Simon corporation. It had been the entry level product of Pappy Van Winkle's legendary...
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Old Lancaster, Three Shawhans, and Boss Tom Pendergast
Bourbon's history includes farmers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, and industrialists. It also sometimes includes operators, wise guys, and gangsters. Today's hero is a whole lot like Nucky Thompson from...
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Why I Am Going To The Water of Life Event - And You Should Too
Passionate whisky enthusiast Matt Lurin is hosting the second annual Water of Life whiskey event Thursday night 5/12/16 and it's not to be missed. The event serves an important charitable cause,...
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Cedar Brook Plankington Reserve - The Whiskey at the Intersection of Old...
Cedar Brook Plankington Reserve - photo by Chad HartsfieldBourbon, like America, evolved from humble roots on frontier farms to something big and industrial which, in the era of America's robber...
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New Study "Proves" You Can't Taste The Difference Between Single Malts And...
It is a classic truism in the malt whisky world that single malts are "better than" blends. The usual reason given is that single malts are free of the "inferior" grain whisky. It's been popular in...
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Whisky Gets Glamorous Tomorrow Night in Harlem
That Harlem Rensaissance vibe... Photo by Clay Williams Jazz and dance. Photo by Clay WilliamsI'm headed to the Harlem Whiskey Renaissance 2017 tomorrow, Thursday March 30th, 2017. It's a whiskey...
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What Makes The Water of Life Whisky Event Extraordinary?
Matt Lurin hosts The Water Of Life EventWhat is the best whiskey event in the world? Indeed, what makes a great whisky event? Great whisky to be tasted, to be sure. But comfort, decadence, and...
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The Dusty Battle: Coopered Tot v.s. The Well at BeastMaster
Why drink old found bottles? (The term "dusties" refers to whiskies which are no longer available, but which can be found in old liquor stores, orphaned on shelves). My friend Steve Zeller - the...
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Updated: actual selections for the BeastMaster Dusty Battle: CooperedTot Vs...
Branded as Gibson's Distilling Co. - this bottle actuallycontains whiskey from Stewart Distillery, Baltimore.Made prior to September, 1917.Update: My previous post announcing the upcoming BeastMaster...
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Chuck Schumer's Gaffe and Why It Matters To New York Whiskey
On video it doesn't look like much of anything. Chuck Schumer, Senator from New York, in a suit, at a conference in Kentucky addresses Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell:"Brooklyn, where I was born,...
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Elijah Craig's Shift to NAS: A Decline? The Krav Organizes An Empirical Test
A fascinating vertical tasting of Elijah Craig 12 & NAS bottlings.Photo by Michael Kravitz of Diving for Pearls blog.The bottles above as blind samples poured and ready to go on my table.Elijah...
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Using Whisky To Time Travel Will Physically Rewire Your Brain's Structure: A...
Mastering Whiskey to Reshape your Brain's Right Insula and Entorhinal CortexWhat does it take to become accomplished at anything and why does it matter? Expertise isn't only about the possession of...
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