Monkey Shoulder is a vatted whisky that despite being a blend of three distillery's malts is so rare that shots on the west coast of the U.S. have typically sold for $20 a glass... when entire bottles sell for under $30. I encountered a bottle of Monkey ...
The Old Grand Dad brand has gone through multiple changes of ownership over the past decades to include the Wathen's family, National Distillers and Jim Beam. The Old Grand Dad picture on the front of the bottle is a rendering of the old man himself, Basi...
On October 22nd. 1910, a fire on the bottling line halted production of Old Forester. Mature whisky ready to be bottled, instead was stored in a secondary barrel. What emerged was a delightful whisky, remarkable enough to become an entirely new expression...