I’m heading down to Kentucky today (Friday) to the Maker’s Mark distillery. Tonight I will be joining Kevin Smith (Maker’s Mark Master Distiller) and John Campbell (Laphroaig Distillery Manager) for a LIVE webcast @ 8pm EST. We’ll be tasting some of the new expressions of Laphroaig, including the 18 year old and 25 year old, along with Maker’s Mark bourbon. You can find the complete details here.
If you’re not doing anything tonight, join us. (The two good-looking guys will be John and Kevin. I’m the other guy 
)The direct link to the webcast is here.
P.S. I’ll be on the road most of today and tomorrow, so this will be my last blog post probably until Sunday or Monday.
I was always told that due to some incredulity by Bill Samuels about how cold it was in Scotland (re ageing of whisk(e)y) that there was barrel of MM ageing at Glenmorangie and one of Glenmorangie ageing at MM… is this true and if it is what ever happened to them?
I heard that too. Not sure what ever became of that experiment.
Off topic: Lileks has a page with scans of old time American whiskey ads.