April 15, 2016

Buffalo Trace Distillery

The Buffalo Trace distillery is a huge facility located on the outskirts of Frankfort, KY. Buffalo Trace don’t take part in the officially endorsed ‘Kentucky Bourbon Trail’, preferring to stand alone. It’s not like they need the marketing assist after all, as they produce the now-legendary Pappy Van Winkle line of whiskey, which is so ridiculously in-demand and in short supply that bottles exchange hands for many times their true retail price - that is, if you can even find any at all.

April 12, 2016

Fooled you

So I wrote up that nice story and promised joyous updates from our travels, right? Then… radio silence. I’m such a cad. As much as I’d like to have been able to give blow-by-blow updates on our adventures, I’d also kinda like to - you know - enjoy them too, so I’ve been holding back the details for a bunch of upcoming posts. I’m planning on writing a bit about the cities we visited, distilleries and whiskies and some of the things we saw.

March 24, 2016

Whiskey in the jar

Hello friends. It’s been a while, right? I could apologise for my extended hiatus from spewing forth into this webular blog, but quite honestly I have no excuses other than laziness and inertia, and any apology would be frankly, insincere. Anyhow. When I was a hazy 16 year old, I hung with a group of friends who mainly partook in playing football in the park, obtaining ‘teenths of draw at the lowest possible cost (or ideally on tic), and cracking open cans of Tennents in someone’s living room.

February 14, 2015

A Valentine's Missive

I’ve never really gotten Valentine’s Day. I’ve always viewed it as a saccharin-sweet Hallmark day, commercialised to maximise the sale of cards, chocs and flowers, to tell that someone special that for this one day, you love them more than everything else. More today than any other day. Like the other days don’t matter. The other days do matter. That’s why this year, my Valentine’s card isn’t a card at all, it’s this blog post.