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,...
Bloody Mary Bar When I said yesterday that formal sessions at this food and drink conference I attended broke for happy hour, I didn't mean to give you the impression that that's when we started drinking, just that that's when we stopped listening to presentations. The drinking...
Three Days in Pittsburgh Ever since we first met our friends at Wigle Whiskey, we've been looking for the right moment to make a visit out to their Pittsburgh distillery. Since it's really just a four hour drive away, it's taken far too long; but in...
Where We've Been Drinking: James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy At this conference in Pittsburgh for food and drink writers, we ended the one of the evenings by dispersing to various Pittsburgh night spots. One of the recommended venues, James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy, was conveniently located just...
Patio Date Spritzer Cocktail Recipe We haven't yet used a sparkling wine during our attempts to spritz our way trough the current heat wave. Perfect as sparkling wine is for summer drinking, that seems like a gap that has to be filled. However, since sparkling wine...
Herbal Spritzer Cocktail Recipe As we've been surviving the heat wave on spritzers this week, we've rightly been focused on drinks with a wine base. Wines make by far the most popular spritzers, and it's easy to understand why. The point of spritzers is that they're...
The Lakeside Cottage Mocktail Recipe As we mentioned on Monday, we recently tended bar for a wine spritzer party a friend of ours was planning. When our friend mentioned he wanted a non-alcoholic spritzer on the menu, we enthusiastically told him about our newfound skill in making...
Tinto de Verano Cocktail Recipe Several years ago, one of us spent a vacation in Spain's charming southernmost region, Andalusia. It's a corner of Spain that's generally left to itself, but if you go you'll discover that in its quiet way it has a lot going...
The Wine Spritzer A friend recently asked us to tend bar for a party he was throwing. It was on a rooftop with stunning views, at sunset. The crowd was a fun one. It sounded like a nice way to spend an evening. The only thing...