Whiskey

Infuse spirits and cocktails like a professional mixologist with this inexpensive, first-of-a-kind gadget that adds rich, delicious smoky flavors to drinks and food at the press of a button. The launch special also comes boxed up as a Christmas gift.

Commissioned to design a new bar for a whiskey distillery, Roomoo Design Studio came up with the idea of incorporating discarded whiskey barrels into the design. The firm painstakingly dismantled oak barrels to create a unique and eye-catching interior.

Blue Run Spirits has revealed plans for a new BIG-designed HQ and distillery in Kentucky. The building will be defined by a twisting form inspired by a local spring and mitigate its energy needs with a focus on natural light and solar power.

A team of scientists at the University of St Andrews has developed a laser spectroscopy technique that can determine the authenticity of expensive vintage whiskey without having to open the bottle to retrieve a sample for analysis.

Whiskey has inspired much creativity among musicians over the years, and now Big D Guitars is cementing that relationship with a Telecaster-shaped instrument built from barrels once home to Jim Beam and Wild Turkey.

A cask of 1987 Macallan Single Malt Scotch Whisky fetched HK$2,928,00 ($375,064) at a Spinks auction in Hong Kong on October 4, setting a new record for a whisky cask at auction and raising the previous record of $251,864 by a staggering 50 percent.

​Last year, Fender announced a Blues Junior guitar amp called the 80 Proof, encased in a cabinet made from Kentucky bourbon barrels. Now whiskey distillery Bushmills has teamed up with Lowden Guitars to launch a limited edition acoustic guitar made from Irish whiskey barrels and ancient bog oak.​