Content with the tag: Malt Advocate Mag

Thinking Small

Here’s a sneak peak of my edi­to­r­ial in the next issue of Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine, which will be released June 1^st. There’s an incred­i­ble craft dis­till­ing move­ment tak­ing place right now, which is very excit­ing. We think it’s great, and we are com­mit­ted to pro­mot­ing their efforts. My edi­to­r­ial explains some of the steps we are […]

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Once again, you’re the subject of my editorial

For those of you who still aren’t sub­scribers to Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine (hint!), I thought I would post my edi­to­r­ial from the new issue that just mailed. Why? Because the topic is about you!
Have a look:
Are you addicted to whisky?
Okay, maybe “addicted” might be too strong. But I don’t think “obses­sion” is.
Over the hol­i­days, I asked […]

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One thing you can do while I’m away for a few days.

For those of you on Face­book, become a fan of Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine. You can find the link here.
We’re just get­ting going, but we picked up 1,000 fans just in the past week. When I get back, I’ll be very active there too. Plus, you can post up your own thoughts on what­ever (whisky related) […]

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Malt Advocate Magazine’s “Top Ten New Whiskies” for 2009

Top Ten New Whiskies of the Year (listed alpha­bet­i­cally)
You will not be happy with the prices of some of these whiskies, but here’s our ten best new whiskies released in 2009 (keep­ing in mind that whiskies must have been for sale in the U.S. in the 2009 cal­en­dar year to be eli­gi­ble).
The selec­tion process for […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Lifetime Achievement Awards”: John Ramsay and Robert Hicks

This year, we honor two mas­ter blenders who have greatly impacted the Scotch whisky indus­try.
John Ram­say
John Ram­say retired in 2009 after 43 years in the whisky indus­try. He started as a chemist in 1966, and over the years he’s had the com­bined roles of both mas­ter blender and chemist (the last eigh­teen years being with […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Distillery of the Year”: Cooley

There was a time when there were only two dis­til­leries in Ire­land; they were, for a while, owned by the same com­pany. Then this small dis­tillery opens up, staunchly inde­pen­dent, and starts doing things unheard of in Ire­land. Instead of mak­ing tra­di­tional Irish whiskey (triple-distilled, non-smoky, and with a pot still whiskey com­po­nent), they started […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Industry Leader of the Year”: Mark Brown (Buffalo Trace Distillery)

Indus­try Leader of the Year
Mark Brown, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Buf­falo Trace Dis­tillery
Mark is a vision­ary, incred­i­bly dri­ven, a clever busi­ness­man, and most impor­tantly, pas­sion­ate about whiskey. Like many other whiskey CEOs, he wants to make the per­fect whiskey. But I have never seen any­one work this hard at it.
Buf­falo Trace is con­duct­ing thou­sands of […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Pioneer of the Year”: Whisky Bloggers!

Pio­neer of the Year
Whisky blog­gers
Where do you find out about the new Maker’s Mark bour­bon months in advance, with pre-release tast­ing notes from pro­fes­sional whiskey writ­ers? When is Dalmore’s mas­ter blender Richard Pater­son com­ing to your town? Where can you still find stocks of the dis­con­tin­ued Laphroaig 15 year old (at the best […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Scotch Whisky: Single Malt of the Year”: Ardbeg Corryvreckan

Scotch Whisky: Sin­gle Malt of the Year
Ard­beg Cor­ryvreckan, 57.1%, $85
Dr. Bill Lums­den is a bril­liant inno­va­tor, and he’s the cre­ative mind behind the new Glen­morangie and Ard­beg releases. This new Ard­beg Cor­ryvreckan replaces Ard­beg Airigh Nam Beist. (Bill, how about a whisky name that most of us can actu­ally pro­nounce?)
As you can imag­ine, the “short list” for […]

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Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Scotch Whisky: Blend of the Year”: Compass Box, “The Peat Monster”

Scotch Whisky: Blend of the Year
Com­pass Box, “The Peat Mon­ster,” 46%, $60
John Glaser, the cre­ator of Com­pass Box whiskies, has been one of the most pro­gres­sive and inno­v­a­tive whisky “blenders” in this gen­er­a­tion. Some of his cre­ations con­sist entirely of grain whiskies. Oth­ers are more “tra­di­tional” and com­bine grain whiskies with malt whiskies. But he […]

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