Category: bourbon
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Dilute Your Own Hazmat Whiskey?
Lost Lantern independent whiskey bottler released their Spring 2026 collection, which was themed as a collection of high vs low proof whiskeys. The collection includes American single malts with unsmoked barley, Rocky Mountain bourbons with different mashbills, southern bourbons with different mashbills and malt influence, and rye whiskies with different ryes – and each of…
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Turning Whiskey Into Gas
I wrote a story for Offrange about whiskey stillage. It is about how a couple of large distilleries – Jim Beam and Jack Daniels – are letting little critters eat their stillage and burp out methane, which is then cleaned up and used as renewable natural gas. The process of writing this one was a…
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September 2025 Drink Book Releases
Here are new cocktails and spirits books being released in September 2025. To see all the New Drink Books of 2025, visit this link. Savory and Sweet Shrubs: Tart Mixers for Delicious Cocktails and Mocktails Amazon Bookshop American Whiskey Master Class: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Bourbon, Rye, and Other American Whiskeys Amazon Bookshop The…
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The Best Drinks Books of 2024
These are some of my favorite cocktails and spirits books I read in 2024. Several of them I blurbed for their authors. There are few more books that were published this year that I haven't read yet, so maybe they'll get on next year's list. My 2023 Best Of List is here, by the way. In…
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Thirty Four New Drink Books for Fall 2024
Update 2: Now this list is up to 34 books Update 1: Detailed reviews of many of these books in my story for AlcoholProfessor are here. Citrus: A World History A Forager's Guide to Wild Drinks: Ferments, infusions and thirst-quenchers for every season Sicilian Cocktails: Contemporary Island Mixology Flavor Lab Creations: A Physicist’s Guide…
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The 2021 Best Drink Books Round-Up
For the past bunch of years, I've done a round-up of all the drink books (mostly cocktails and spirits) that have come out during the year, in consideration for gifting. I'm not doing that this year, as there are too many cocktail books, and if you want to see them all, you can visit these…
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Using Untreated Water to Proof Whiskey
Many distilleries brag about their pure water supply, but typically that water is only used for fermentation, and then reverse osmosis filtered or distilled tap water is used to dilute spirits down to bottle proof. So the quantity of that special water left in the bottle is small – in the case of vodka it's…
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All the Cocktail and Drink Books from 2020 for Reading or Gifting
It's time for the annual Alcademics drink book round-up! Below are all the books that have come to my attention in 2020. I don't follow wine/beer closely so there are only a few in that section. The links below are to Amazon and to Bookshop.org. If you buy stuff after clicking on a link, I…
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All the Cocktail and Spirits Books Released in 2019
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in alcohol law, baijiu, beer, bitters, books, bourbon, cider, cocktails, distilling, garnish, gifts, gin, history, legal/law/regulations, mixers, molecular mixology, non-alcoholic, punch, recipes, rum, rye, sake, scotch whisky, tequila, tiki, tonic, tonic water, whisky, wineMore than 70 cocktails and spirits books (plus a few on cider, beer, and spiritzes) published in 2019.
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Sour Mashing as Industrial Waste Recycling
I never realized that the sour mash process is partly industrial waste recycling.