Liquor Review: Wigle's Deep Cut Rye The arrival of an unexpected package at the office is always a moment of great anticipation. Sure, most of the time it's an insurance policy renewal to review, but every once in a while it's Wigle's seasonal sample. Most recently,...
Wigle's Pressed Pommeau At their latest seasonal release, Wigle Whiskey sent us Pressed, their version of a pommeau. A pommeau is a traditional liqueur in Brittany and Normandy, made by combining apple brandy with raw apple cider, and then allowing it to age for a while...
Wigle's Afterglow Ginger Whiskey One of the innovations of our friends at Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey is to release spirits on a seasonal schedule, rather like breweries do. They get their inspiration for these seasonal releases two ways: good, old fashioned brainstorming; or through market research done...
Liquor 101: Whipped Cream Dispenser I know it's a little late to say so, but we hope you had a merry Christmas. We sure did. Among other things, we were given a bunch of new cocktail toys that we're sure we'll be sharing with you. Without...
Swing State Cocktail Recipe We're now counting down the days to the election, and, regardless of your stance on it, you're probably more than ready to get the thing over with already. And you're probably going to need a drink or five to get through it....
Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking to the beginning of fall. One of our favorite ways to mark the changing of the seasons is to create a seasonally appropriate old fashioned recipe; it's our version of the pumpkin spice latte. While we...
O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth. We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...
Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...
Wigle Whiskey Barrelhouse Tour I spent the second happy hour of Pittsburgh's Three Day Blow Festival taking a tour of the Wigle Barrelhouse. Yes, that's different from the distillery where I spent the first happy hour. A little while ago, Wigle outgrew its distillery and had to expand...
The Lost Art of Rye-Making Rye is quickly becoming our preferred whiskey. Like most drinkers of the current era, we started on Bourbon. Actually, one of us, like most men, started with single malt Scotch because it has great marketing, and he's susceptible to peer pressure,...