As the weather begins to get colder, there are two things on our mind: Irish Coffee and Scottish Coffee. As we get into the 'ber or brr months (September, October, November, and December), we like our ...
We know the dish called “Scotch broth” to be a stew-like soup based in lamb, heavy on the barley and vegetables. The earliest versions of Scotch broth, however, were beef-based soups. One of the first ...
Irish whiskey sales have been tipped to overtake Scotch sales in the US by 2030 after sales rose by 16.3% in 2021 to reach a record $1.3 billion. Roughly 5.9 million casks of Irish whiskey were sold ...
Standard and affordable Irish whiskey and affordable blended scotch whisky have a lot in common. At the heart of each spirit is, generally speaking, a blend of grain and malt whiskeys that are aged in ...
Complaining to James Monroe around 1780 about what he considered to be the cause of a deterioration in American politics, the English-born Maj. Gen. Charles Lee of the Continental Army told the future ...
When it comes to headline-grabbing whisky sales, scotch had been the only category that mattered for decades. Familiar names like The Macallan, The Dalmore and Port Ellen regularly fetch six figures ...
Mention whiskey to most people and they’ll likely think of the Scottish stuff or, perhaps, Kentucky bourbon. Suggest “Ireland” and many will think of beer, or to be more specific, the black ale known ...
“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...
Beam-Suntory is the world’s third largest beverage companies. It was created in 2014 when Suntory Holdings, Japan’s largest distiller, merged with Beam Inc., one of the US’ biggest beverage companies.