At one point, perhaps 6,000 years ago, a First Nat...  ...amworth, New Hampshire, a producer of small batch whiskeys with fanciful names and flavors, is betting that...  ...say, castoreum -- is a good starting point for a whiskey dubbed Eau de Musc. This bourbon has a "leathery,...

(Photo: Chicken & Sons)Chicken & Sons, a restaurant in Chatsworth, New South Wales, Australia, now offers the perfect breakfast burger. Their $22 Bourbon Burger has bourbon-glazed bacon, bourbon-based barbecue sa...

Oh dear, it appears that price of whiskey is climbing through the roof, mainly because the...  ...panic. First it was bourbon, then other kinds of whiskey , and now the high demand has affected the supply...

Americans have always loved their whiskey . Even George Washington had his own distillery. C...  ...lass bottles were developed. When Americans loved whiskey too much, there was always someone else who wante...  ...n, we found ways around it. One way was medicinal whiskey . Noah...

(Photo: Dalmore)This is no rotgut! Four carefully...  ...ot, but it's not even close to the most expensive whiskey in the world. You can find more delicious-looking...  ...find more delicious-looking and extremely costly whiskeys at First We Feast.

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.Some further research adventures of Ig Nobel Prize winnerscompiled by Nan Swift, Improbable Research staffDacke and Baird: Collision Detection in Bees ve...

When Jack Daniels Leathers was born 31 years ago,...  ...orn 31 years ago, his parents named him after the whiskey in order to annoy their parents. Jack has always...  ...after the bourbon. But that’s not the only whiskey name connection for the Leathers.When they got ma...

(Photo: Oliver Sweeney)Maxwell Smart's shoe phone would be a handy gadget, but you don't always need a phone. For other moments of crisis, there's the Johnnie Tan Leather Brogue, a shoe from the Oliver Sweeney brand of s...

(Photo: Harris Tweed)Harris Tweed is a renowned fabric made in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky is, similarly, a famous product of Scotland. The companies that produce both are coming together...

In 1862 the new Bureau of Internal Revenue began t...  ...2 the new Bureau of Internal Revenue began taxing whiskey as a means of funding the Civil War. The tax rose...  ...was the latest in a series of raids known as the Whiskey Wars. Illicit distilling had become so widespread...  ...th $5,000 in taxes—a...