By Kevin Marsh
The venerable Martini. Perhaps the most famous cocktail, and certainly the mixed drink with the most myths, stories and lore attached. It is also the one cocktail that has a following and its own brand of snobbery. You usually don’t here two people arguing over a Planters Punch.
The basic martini recipe is as [...]
By Ian L Cunningham
Gin is a juniper berry-flavored grain spirit . The word is an English shortening of Genever, the Dutch word for juniper. The origins of Gin are rather murky. In the late 1580s a juniper-flavored spirit of some sort was found in Holland by British troops who were fighting against the Spanish in [...]
Imbibing alcoholic beverages is an integral part of many human societies. In fact some researchers believe that the first beverages that were produced by humans were alcoholic in nature, and these spirits may be the very catalyst for the development of civilization as we know it. The following are a series of unusual facts about [...]
By Harry Young
Just as France has its wine regions, Scotland has its whiskey regions. Each one produces whiskies of various qualities which, even to the novice, are noticeable in taste, color and aroma. Every distillery in Scotland has its own story to tell and peculiar traditions, adding to the romance and mystique of Scotch whiskey [...]
