malts

Peanut Butter Malt

One of my favorite things to get at an ice cream stand is a malt. But we went this this root beer stand yesterday and they mix different flavors besides the chocolate..They they their best seller was...

The Review....

If it were my pick, I would have picked Justin Smoak. The switch-hitting power, combined with the the ridiculously high success rate of first-round college first basemen, would have been too much to...

The Best Scotch in the world is...Japanese??

From The Times: Yoichi 20 years old, distilled on the shores of the Sea of Japan, has become the first variety produced outside Scotland to win the coveted single malt award in an international...

At-Game 25 Recap: Melted Out

A missive from Mrs. Orel:Once a year, for his birthday in April, I buy my husband Dodger tickets for us to attend a game together. I like baseball. I don't breathe baseball, but I like the...

The High Pricing of Whisky

Eric Asimov had a post on Friday that caught my attention. In it, he refers to a book by Robin Goldstein called “The Wine Trials". In discussing the book, and a related article on Newsweek, he...

Product Review: Glenrothes Select Reserve, Martin Miller's Gin, Tullamore Dew, and Zen Green Tea Liq

Two whiskeys worth savoring. Glenrothes Single MaltThe Glenrothes was founded in 1879. It is one of the Speyside Malts and it holds "top class" status. Select Reserve uses a combination of Spanish...

The Marketing of the Ultra-premium Whiskeys

Eric Asimov, the drink writer at the New York Times, takes a look at bourbon and its increase in popularity. The dive in sales forced bourbon producers to accept that the whiskey market had changed....

Open Beer Thread

Don’t ask about batch one because I don’t want to talk about it. Pouring that much would-have-been beer into a drain feels like an almost unforgivable party foul. Batch 2, a hoppy...

Whiskey Tasting Notes: Bushmills Black Bush

Ah, back to the Bushmills for another one of their product line. This time it's the Black Bush that came into my sight. Back in 1934, Bushmills introduced “Old Bushmills Special Old Liqueur Whiskey”,...

One lesson learned; another lesson missed

It is just human nature, and even more so amongst the Jockucracy, to consider oneself indestructible and bulletproof.  Big Z sez that he "don't like to drink much water."  Ok, Carlos,...

Following the Head - Three Days in the Home Run Trenches

Sacrificing sleep, sanity, cash, and my stomach lining (more on that later), the Delino has survived three perilous days on the road to 755 (so excuse grammar issues)! I feel like I've been training...