Rowley's Whiskey Forge

B&E: Blended, not distilled, by St. George Spirits Non-distiller producer whiskey — NDP whiskey to those in the abbreviation-pron...

Sticky, fluffy marshmallow creme — sometimes dubbed marshmallow topping or "cream" — can be whipped together in less time than i...

For what shall it profit a man  if he shall gain the whole world,   and lose his own soul?   ~ Mark 8:36 Never mind whiskey afici...

I am aware, in some vague sense, that a mule is a type of shoe, although I am fairly certain that I don't own any. More familiar to me i...

My brother drinks coffee; I drink tea . He and I are two strikingly different men with divergent tastes in everything from politics to pets....

I once teased Hollis Bulleit , asking her what sort of woman drinks bourbon. “Sassy broads,” she informed me, “drink bourbon.” I've fo...

We get into cyclical ruts around the Whiskey Forge — watching a month’s worth of Tosh.0 in one sitting, for instance, reading everything a p...

Costco, the large American members-only shopping club, carries house brands of hundreds of items ranging from paper towels to medicines. Add...

My first encounter with a bowl of punch — not the frat house version slopped together from whatever alcohol is cheap and plentiful, but a mo...

Let me be quite clear: I do not, in general, approve of commercial flavored whiskeys. That’s not to say they don’t have their place. Leopold...

My father is a Kentucky Colonel. It is with deep regret that I understand this bluegrass mantel is not hereditary, that if I wish to attain ...

Sassy broads drink bourbon ~ Hollis Bulleit Dressed to the nines, a line of Los Angelenos was already snaking from the velvet rope outside ...

Today’s the last day of the American Distilling Institute’s annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky, home of horseracing and whiskey. Natu...

As a meal familiar to bartenders around the world, Maryland Senator Millard Tydings (1890-1961, pictured left) offered his recipe for a Kent...

Anyway, it's hot here, it's hot. That's all I gotta say. ~ Morcheeba Let it Go New Orleans isn’t as hot as last week they tell m...

Hard Drinks for Hard Times: Part I Bad news, everyone: I’ve been laid off. Damn. Advertising exec was one of the coolest jobs I’ve ever held...

A few weeks back, I mentioned that, unlike other cocktail enthusiasts, I declined to contaminate my finest bourbons with bacon . Odd, right?...

[Spent a week recently back in one of my favorite cities in the world. Here’s the first of occasional post-New Orleans notes.] In the wake o...

I no longer doubt the existence of the human soul because I just felt mine shrivel and die. ~ Kat, commenting on JeffreyMorgenthaler.com Ok...

(In which Rowley vents on vodka and christens a new cocktail) "Dr. Cocktail hereby announces: Henceforth [the excessively fruity versio...