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Green Spot Irish Whiskey Hits San Francisco

Even SF can have the Luck of the Irish Is that really a bottle of Green Spot?  What?  How did I get a bottle of Green Spot?  I live in San Francisco.  That’s nigh on impossible. Let’s just say that good people know that I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking, writing and drinking whiskey. And those good people might have traveled to Dublin recently and thought, screw the...

Apr 19th

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The Best SWAG of WhiskyFest 2010

With Chicago WhiskyFest this weekend, I realized I never posted about some of the giveaways from the 2010 WhiskyFest.  Last WhiskyFest, I posted about all the SWAG (stuff we all get) I got in 2009.  And there was a LOT of really great stuff to be had.  Obviously these festivals are more about the whiskies (which I do think took the highlight this year), but it still doesn’t hurt to give away...

Apr 18th

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Tales from the Cask : Wilson and Wilson Private...

Outside of a San Francisco Detective Agency One of the bars in San Francisco that knows how to make a cocktail is Bourbon and Branch.  They invented the Laphroaig Project there, and the bar is actually housed in what used to be a speakeasy.  There’s a back “library” that houses a second bar that you need to enter through a fake bookcase.  You need to make a reservation and know...

Apr 2nd