Rowley's Whiskey Forge

The fact that many of the mugs were purchased (or even stolen) by our parents and grandparents, during nights of naïve debauchery in their ...

Should we finish off the beluga or should we have some smoked salmon and nibbly things? ~ Edina Monsoon Absolutely Fabulous Its cover notwit...

Those of you in the San Francisco Bay area this week are in for a treat. Like Martin Cate before him, Scott Beattie, author of Artisanal Coc...

First in my roundup of summertime cocktail books is Joanne Weir’s enthusiastic primer Tequila: A Guide to Types, Flights, Cocktails, and Bi...

Volodimir Pavliuchuk is so well known among hobbyist distillers that if he spent a week in internet silence, home distillers from New York t...

Inishowen swarms with private stills and an active person is necessary to suppress them. ~ 1750’s parliamentary report With St. Patrick...

A popular conceit holds that only the freshest in-season foods should grace our tables for proper, healthful and, let’s face it, morally sou...

When you consider that brown liquor defined my childhood as much as, say, snow days and sunburns did, my predilection for the Sazerac b...

Throughout the book I have spelt the word ‘poitín.’ This is the correct Irish spelling; the reason for the emasculated ‘poteen’ on the co...

It was while preparing a conference paper on the history of alcoholic spirits in Britain, in the 1970’s, that I first encountered the mediev...