Review: Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon 2011 Edition
This year, the “small” batch gets bigger than ever: Four Roses is batching four of its 10 Bourbon recipes into the 2011 Limited Edition Small Batch release. This year, the annual Limited Edition Small Batch is built out of 13-year OBSK, 13-year OESQ, 12-year OESV, and 11-year OESK. (If none of that means anything to…
Recipes: Falling Satellite Cocktails
This weekend a NASA satellite will come crashing to earth… and no one knows where. (The odds of someone, somewhere getting hit by a piece are about 1 in 3,200.) In honor of the event, the Cellar Bar at the Bryant Park Hotel in Manhattan has three cocktails on offer for the rest of the…
Review: Samuel Adams Utopias (2011 Release)
Sam Adams is back again with its seasonal release of Utopias, the Guinness recordholder for the strongest commercially available beer. At 27% alcohol, Utopias continues to shock eyeballs and palates, not just with the wild, bold flavor, but with the price tag, too. I missed the 2009 Utopias, so it’s been a lengthy four years…
Tasting Emanuel Andren Chocolate Truffles
We don’t review much high-end chocolate here at Drinkhacker. Or rather, some (namely myself) would say we don’t review enough. While you’ve probably not heard the name, Emanuel Andrén is hardly a new brand. Founded in a small town in Sweden in 1868, this family business is devoted to producing ultra-luxe confections, which it promptly…
Review: Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum
It’s a little hard to believe, but the top-selling rum company on earth — in fact, one of the top-selling spirits brands in the world — did not, until now, have a spiced rum under its umbrella. That is finally changing, as Bacardi this month has launched Oakheart, its own “smooth spiced rum.” The emphasis…
Review: Col. E.H. Taylor Single Barrel Bourbon
Earlier this year our friends at Buffalo Trace released the first in a line of new whiskeys named for pioneering Bourbon-man E.H. Taylor. A second spirit is now ready to join that line: Colonel E.H. Taylor Single Barrel Bourbon. Aged 11 years 7 months, this is a nicely matured whiskey with plenty of wood going…
Review: Tatratea Liqueurs
Today we have the very good fortune to cover a new liqueur series from Karloff Tatra Distillery in Slovakia, all based on tea. Not sweet tea, so common in today’s flavored vodka universe, but hot, fermented tea: Brewed, black tea, spiced with herbs, and mixed with alcohol. Cane sugar is used for sweetening. Then Tatratea…
Review: The Bitter Truth Pimento Dram Liqueur
What a time it is in which we live. Just a couple of years ago, we had now way to add allspice liqueur — known in the Old Days as Pimento Dram — to a cocktail, leaving hundreds of recipes simply unmakeable, unless you wanted to do something horrible like substitute cinnamon schnapps for the…
