http://whiskeyjournal.com Whiskey Journal: Reviews & Stories From The Cask Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:00:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a neat bar trick. The bet: swap the contents of two shot glasses (one whiskey, the other water) using only a playing card. Watch the video to learn how. http://whiskeyjournal.com/bar-trick-whiskeywater-swap/ It's a dream that we all share. One day you'll open a tiny bar and offer the locals quality service and fine spirits. You know, if you weren't so lazy and could pony up the cash. So what's really required to gain a liquor license? Piazza Italian Market in Maryland chronicled ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/maryland-liquor-license/ Due to tough economic times, Google updated their AdWords policies to allow ads for hard liquor. You may have heard that Google allowed beer ads earlier this year, but since we're all getting soused with a bottle these days, the company collective threw their arms up in the air and ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/google-goes-hard/ "Hey! You've got your boob in my scotch..." While it's certainly not blues guitarist Bob Log III's finest song, Boob Scotch is one of the few that applies to this site. When Bob and his one-man-band perform Boob Scotch live, he invites women on stage to dip their boob in his ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/boob-scotch/ There's not much of a story as to why I chose Jack Daniels Single Barrel. I suppose I had been eying it for a while, and the selection of bourbons at Green's that I haven't tried are few and far between. I'm sort of indifferent to regular ol' Jack Daniels, ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/jack-daniels-single-barrel/ A man sits at a bar and orders two whiskeys. The bartender serves him the two whiskeys. The man drinks one whiskey and pours the second all over his hand. The bartende's curiosity gets the better of him and he asks the man why he wasted the booze. ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/whiskey-joke-friday-2/ The Discovery Channel website has an excellent video from the program How Stuff Works that documents Jack Daniels' process of turning yellow corn into whiskey. Snuggle in at your desk and watch the video. http://whiskeyjournal.com/from-corn-to-cocktail/ From The Onion: New Texas Legislation Would Require Whiskey Bottles To Be Shot Out Of Air Immediately After Being Emptied AUSTIN, TX—A new piece of legislation proposed yesterday on the floor of the Texas Legislature would require that all whiskey bottles be tossed overhead and shot clean out of the air the ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/headline-from-the-onion/ When will people learn? I hope never. You can find Volume I here. http://whiskeyjournal.com/flaming-shots-vol-ii/ It doesn't appear to be significantly aged, but Blanton's boasts that "the finest bourbon in the world comes from a single barrel." Great. All my wife cares about is that Blanton's cork/bottle top is a metal horsey. Yes, this is another bottle chosen by Patti based on looks. It's a ... http://whiskeyjournal.com/blantons-single-barrel/