Home Base Bourbon is the perfect distillation for its name: a comforting, reliable choice to return to time and time again - dependable yet dynamic, familiar yet exotic, and supportive of whatever you add to it (particularly if it is a sweetener and bitters for an Old Fashioned).
The Meads, the family behind Wyoming Whiskey, have their roots deep in Wyoming and decided to make a line up of whiskeys that honor the diverse resources of their home. The distillery in Big Horn Basin (did you know that Big Horn was one of the names considered for the territory before Wyoming became a state? Also: Sweetwater, Lincoln, Yellowstone, and Cheyenne) works only with local ingredients - non-GMO grains from Rageth Farms and water from the Madison Formation, a limestone aquifer a mile below ground. We’re excited for a visit from these Wyomingites and to taste these three lovely bottles (like the three horns of the mighty triceratops - Wyoming’s state dinosaur!)
Recently I spent some time driving around the UK with a dear friend. We tasted excellent scotch, ate loads of black pudding, and I for one (while fighting off a cold) consumed literal liters of tea.
The calendar says winter is coming, but the chill might turn to a permanent freeze based on yesterday's Presidential nuclear declarations. We're hoping to keep our drinks on the rocks, but our planet neat. As professional merrymakers, we've got the perfect way to stay optimistic and keep your glass half full.
Farid is one of the Bay Areas's original distillers, and he started doing small batch gin before those terms were ever even strung together in a sentence. His gin is produced in batches with fewer than 300 at his Falcon Spirits distillery in Richmond California. From start to finish the production take a month, during which he actually uses a proprietary method of vapor infusion as he produces his gin. That method helps capture aromas with the least amount of impurity. The 100% grain spirit is six times distilled and carbon filtered, which creates a lighter bodied, very botanically balanced sipper.