Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the Grand Opening of Albany Distilling Company, and it was a great time! Albany Distilling Company is the result of a two year long legal & financial process and the determination of two friends John Curtin and Matthew Jager who together had a vision of opening the […]

As if just being able to attend Camp Runamok wasn’t enough the very first distillery I got to tour was Buffalo Trace Distillery – easily the one I wanted to visit the most as Buffalo Trace is the home of many of my favorite bourbons. Buffalo Trace is a beautiful as well as massive complex, […]

This past week from September 10th through September 15th I had the honor to attend the First Ever Camp Runamok. What is Camp Runamok you ask? Well here it is in their words: Bartender Summer Camp in the heart of Kentucky. September 10-15, 2012 Bardstown, Kentucky That’s right .. Yours truly went to Bourbon Camp! […]

When you ask people about their feelings towards vodka you tend to get a pretty generic or unenthusiastic response like; “It’s OK”, “I’ll have it as a mixer”, “Vodka’s Vodka”, and so on. That is unless you ask someone that has had the good fortune to drink some CORE Vodka made by Harvest Spirits of […]

Some great news came my way last week, the great folks of Tuthilltown Spirits were having the Grand Opening of their new tours, tasting room, and retail store. Suddenly my holiday weekend, that didn’t have any special plans, now had something REALLY exciting in store. And the Tuthilltown Distillery is only a little over an […]