Review: Gooderham & Worts Canadian Whisky
Gooderham & Worts is a truly historic brand in Canadian whiskydom. Dating back to the 1860s, the brand built a distillery in downtown Toronto in an area that is still known as that town’s distillery district today. The company has been acquired and changed hands several times over the years, and it is now under…
Review: Lagunitas The Waldos 2019, Secret Agenda, and Dark Swan
Three new brews from Lagunitas, including what is Lagunitas’ arguably most talked-about beer ever, The Waldos’ Special Ale. All are available in standard, small format bottles. Lagunitas The Waldos’ Special Ale 2019 – “The dankest and hoppiest beer ever brewed at Lagunitas,” this double IPA is inspired by “the history of 4/20,” though one should…
Review: Dixie Vodka, Complete Lineup (2019)
We last encountered Dixie Vodka in 2014, when it was known as General Beauregard Dixie Southern Vodka. Since then, the Charleston, S.C.-based distillery has updated (and simplified) its branding, while rolling out additional flavored expressions. Everything’s still made from a mash of GMO-free corn. It’s unclear if the distillery still uses the TerrePURE system to…
Review: Troegs Boysenberry Tart Ale
Troegs Independent Brewing, founded in 1997 by Chris and John Trogner in Pennsylvania, has created something special with this new sour ale. As a sour brewed with lactobacillus, coriander, and sea salt, Boysenberry Tart Ale is made decidedly in the Gose style. Gose originated in the Middle Ages in the town of Goslar on the…
Review: Republic Restoratives Civic Vodka and Borough Bourbon
Washington, DC-based Republic Restoratives is a women- and LGBT-owned distillery with giving back firmly in mind. The company donates a portion of proceeds to GIFFORDS, an anti-gun violence nonprofit that’s near to founder Pia Carusone, namely because she was formerly Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ chief of staff. Now Carusone is making booze, with four different products…
Review: Sol Chelada
Sol Chelada has been on sale in Mexico since 2011, but it’s only in 2019 that a version tweaked for U.S. palates has gone on sale in the country in chunky 24 oz cans. Strictly speaking this should be called Sol Michelada, as it has tomato and spices mixed in, which is what turns a…
Review: Four Roses Small Batch Select Bourbon
Four Roses pumps out special edition bourbons on a regular clip, but it surprisingly only has three bottlings in its permanent collection: Single Barrel, Small Batch, and Yellow Label. Today a fourth bourbon joins that group: Small Batch Select, a name which will undoubtedly only exacerbate the confusion over the brand’s releases (particularly since it…
Review: Samuel Adams New England Pale Ale
Wait, didn’t Sam Adams just launch a New England Pale Ale a few months ago? You can be forgiven any confusion: That 2018 launch was a New England IPA, and this is a New England Pale Ale. Both are juicy/hazy brews, but they’re surprisingly different in construction. Says the brewery: “New England Pale Ale was…
