Powers John’s Lane Release is the six and final whiskey we’re sampling as part of our ‘world’s best’ series. After Scotland, India and the United States, we return a little…
In our pursuit of excellence, we’ve encountered some quite awe-inspiring whiskies. The four you see at the top of our scoreboard, those we have rated as ‘Sublime’, are the whiskies…
For all those who ‘fight oral hygiene’ (is that common?), here’s the solution, from a 1961 edition of House and Garden magazine. Jigger whiskey toothpaste. It’s apparently flavoured with ‘the real…
Ta-da! What do you think? We hope that, if nothing else, reading Cask Tales has convinced you that we like whisky. With any luck, though, you’ll also have noticed that we…
Clinging to the north east of the Republic of Ireland, Cooley has only been functioning as a whiskey distillery since the late 1980s. Its conversion to whiskey production, challenged the…
We reviewed Jim Beam’s White Label in early December and we’ve moved on to the Black Label, which is aged twice as long as its younger sibling. The eight years…
I’ve hopped over the Atlantic again (only figuratively, annoyingly) and now find myself in Kentucky. Elijah Craig, for those wondering, was a nineteenth century Baptist preacher from Virginia who ended…
Welcome to the inaugural Cask Tales Awards! We’ve had quite a busy year, reviewing 61 whiskies from 50 distilleries this year, sampling some of the best (and, perhaps, worst) that…
This coming Monday night, children the world over will be unable to sleep, caught in the grip of festive excitement. One very portly, red gentleman will be doing exactly what…
While slightly different from our last three reviews in that an ‘e’ has intruded into the name of the spirit, this whiskey has in common with its three Scotch predecessors…
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