Grizzly Growler

St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us and if you’re looking to celebrate with a Montana whiskey, well, you’re in luck. Bigfork’s Whistling Andy Distillery is set to uncork one barrel of its first whiskey on March 17. Bottles of Harvest Select will be for sale on a first-come, first-serve basis at 10 a.m. at [...]

Met up and had a pint yesterday with Ryan Montgomery who is starting Montgomery Distillery in Missoula, which is scheduled to open at the end of summer. Some of you may have heard about it in this Missoulian article. If not, Montgomery Distillery will be crafting vodka, gin and, in about three years, whiskey, at 139 E. [...]

Courtesy of beer buddy Cory, it seems New Holland Brewing has produced a whiskey distilled from a dry hopped India Pale Ale. The resulting liquor, according to this article in the Sacramento Bee, puts is somewhere between un-aged whiskey and the floral, citrus-like flavors of tequilla. Having thought long and hard about distilling down different [...]

This is a long one, but the pub scenes and whiskey stores are fun to see. Prost, GG

Judging whiskey is a difficult thing to do. So I’m going to leave that to the professionals. But writing about whiskey is great fun, as is reviewing a good whiskey now and then. For some time now I’ve been keeping an eye on the Montana distillery scene. There are numerous vodka makers out there, and [...]

But it’s still gonna cost you $300 just to go to the airport. Nevermind that, your fee for the event is only $120. Can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend and $500 then attending the Whiskeys of the World and Artisanal Spirits Event in San Francisco, on March 27th. Can’t get there [...]

I’ve been extolling some of the virtues of young whiskeys for a while now, much to amusement of my high-end Scotch-swilling friends. But I like to think I recognized it for what it was. And what it is is smart marketing and capitalizing off a much larger field of palates than aged whiskey currently holds. [...]

Here’s a great little story to head into your weekend with. Hope to see you all at the Big Sky Blue Canyon beer dinner tonight! WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — This Scotch has been on the rocks for a century. Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team [...]

In the great world of whiskey, this news might be considered to have come from The Onion or some other funny source, but it came from the 2010 Whisky Bible, a U.K. Guide to premier whiskeys, which proclaimed the 18-year-old Kentucky-made  Sazerac Rye as the BEST Whiskey/Whisky. Also surprising, according to this blog post from [...]

You may or may not notice the unique bottle as you peruse the whiskeys these days, but if you do, it likely caught your eye for the way the light played through the orange-brown liquor on the flask-shaped, old-fashioned bottle. I remember when Bulleit Bourbon came out a few years back. It appealed to many [...]