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Chuck Miller describes himself as “America’s First Craft Distiller”. He’s been making moonshine legally at his Stillhouse Distillery in Culpepper, Virginia for 25 years, using the recipe and techniques he learned from his grandfather. Grandpa helped keep Washington wet during Prohibition and made moonshine illegally for decades, and despite frequent raids, never once got caught. Chuck shares his “shine” stories with us in this week’s episode. In the news, the distillery that’s helped many a craft distiller get started is sold, The Balvenie Road Show winds up, and a listener sings the praises of Blended Scotches.

Visit WhiskyCast at www.whiskycast.com

Maker’s Mark Bourbon Offers Recipes to Gobble Up This Thanksgiving

Autumn has arrived and with it, the brilliant colors of changing leaves, the bounty of the season’s harvest and the beginning of the holiday season. A Thanksgiving feast just wouldn’t be complete without ingredients like apples, chestnuts and sweet potatoes, but we at Maker’s Mark say take them to the next level by adding in splash or two of our premium bourbon.

Made from soft red winter wheat, barley and corn and aged in American oak barrels, Maker’s Mark is a smooth tasting premium bourbon with caramel, vanilla and spice notes. These flavors are even bolder and more complex in new Maker’s 46, which undergoes an additional aging process with seared French oak staves.

Our historic Kentucky distillery would like to share with you some great recipes from our friends which incorporate our bourbon and will be easy for your readers to make at home. Acclaimed chef and TV personality Amanda Freitag recommends this delicious bourbon-infused sweet potato side dish and Chef Elizabeth Karmel of New York City’s Hill Country Barbecue has whipped up a pecan pie recipe that will have everyone asking for a second slice. Pair these with an Apple Manhattan or Pomegranate Smash cocktail and you’ve got yourself one heck of a Thanksgiving meal!

Please also check out the new recipe section of our website at visit www.makersmark.com.

Apple Manhattan

RECIPE:

2 parts Maker’s Mark®
1 part Berentzen® Apple Liqueur

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a granny smith apple wheel.

Pomegranate Smash

RECIPE:

2 parts Maker’s 46™
1 part POM Wonderful® Pomegranate Juice
½ part honey
½ part fresh squeezed lemon juice
Garnish with pomegranate seeds

Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Pour over ice into a rocks glass.

Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Maker’s Mark®, Chestnuts and Sage

Recipe by Amanda Freitag, Executive Chef and TV Personality

Prep Time: 15 minutes. Cook Time: 30 minutes. Level: Easy.
Serves 6-8

Ingredients
4-5 large sweet potatoes, peeled & large dice
¼ cup Maker’s Mark®
½ cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup celery, small dice
1½ cups whole peeled chestnuts, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 tablespoon fresh sage, chiffonade
Salt and Black Pepper to taste

1. Place diced sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with cold water. Add salt to the sweet potatoes and bring to a boil. Simmer the potatoes for approximately 25 minutes or until just tender, not too soft.
2. Drain the potatoes until dry and place them back into the pot. Stir in the ½ cup of butter and the Maker’s Mark® while the potatoes are still hot. As you stir the potatoes they will naturally mash and still hold some of their shape. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Transfer to a ceramic serving dish and hold.
3. Prepare the chestnuts by first melting the 2 tablespoons of butter into a sauté pan and sauté the celery on a medium heat. After 2 minutes add the chopped chestnuts and the maple syrup to the celery and cook together until incorporated. Finish the chestnuts with the sage and season with salt and pepper. Spoon the chestnut mixture over the sweet potatoes and serve.

Maker’s Mark® Double-Nut Pecan Pie

Recipe by Elizabeth Karmel, Executive Chef, Hill Country Barbecue Market

Prep Time: 2 hours. Cook Time: 1 hour. Level: Easy.

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

1 cup whole pecans
¾ cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
½ cup granulated white sugar
½ cup dark corn syrup
¼ cup light corn syrup
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons Maker’s Mark®
1 pre-baked 9-inch pie shell*

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Put chopped nuts into the bottom of the prebaked pie shell and set aside.
2. Combine melted butter, granulated sugar, the dark and light corn syrups, eggs, vanilla extract and bourbon.
3. Pour this mixture on top of chopped nuts. Place a decorative row of whole pecans on the top. Bake about 50-60 minutes on the center rack of the oven or until cooked through. The pie will spring back on top but still giggle a little until it cools. If the top is getting too dark before the center is done, tent with aluminum foil.
4. Cool for a minimum of three hours. The pie is best made the day before.

*Note: Pre-bake the pie shell according to package directions at least two hours beforehand to allow time to cool.

Note from Chef Karmel: “The classic pecan pie made better with the addition of both chopped and whole pecans and a splash of both vanilla and Bourbon. Serve with Maker’s Mark® spiked whipped cream for a double treat!”

Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –

This weeks’ Whisky Wednesday offering is an exceptionally rare whisky, created over 40 years ago by one of Scotland’s great distilleries, and perhaps most beautiful.

Opportunities like this don’t come along every day. For the first time in its 175 year history, Glengoyne Distillery has released its oldest, most valuable and finest Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky: the Glengoyne 40 Years Old.

Unlike most other distilleries, Glengoyne has been preserving the essence of its whisky’s flavor for decades by using air-dried barley rather than barley dried using harsh peat smoke. The result is a more subtle, complex whisky in which all of the delicate flavors are freely allowed to express themselves.

This natural strength Limited Edition Single Malt was distilled in November 1968 and bottled in 2009. It is displayed in an elegant Glencairn crystal decanter, housed in a solid oak presentation box. The lacquered, piano finished, solid oak presentation box features gold plates on the front and a hand-stitched cream leather interior. An outer leather carry case and cloth bag further protect your investment.

Individually numbered, the elegant hand blown decanter is produced by independent, Scottish, family business Glencairn Crystal and features an engraving of the award winning Glengoyne Distillery.

Together, the Glengoyne Limited Edition 40 Years Old Highland Single Malt and elegant crystal decanter come in a magnificent presentation box and traditionally bound book, signed by the Distillery Manager Robbie Hughes.

There are exactly 250 available worldwide.

We are fortunate to have wonderful relationships within the world of whisky, and so are able to offer a lucky few subscribers the opportunity to own one of these bottles. If you are interested in adding this truly exceptional whisky to your collection, make haste!

Glengoyne Limited Edition Forty Years Old Single Malt Whisky – $5,400/ Bottle

Until next Wednesday….

Doug Stone
Founder
www.ForScotchLovers.com 

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GLENGOYNE LIMITED EDITION FORTY YEARS OLD SINGLE MALT WHISKY

TASTING NOTES – Courtesy of Glengoyne Distilery

November Outturn Previews: 4 new casks & pair offer

Drool over our spookily good November Preview Bottlings…released early and just in time for Halloween

76.87 Kissing a lady vampire’s neck
Speyside Spey
£39.80 inc free p&p
A ‘classy wee number’ – lightly floral (elderflower or meadowsweet after rain) and fruity (kumquat, physalis, cherry) with understated notes of old pine, coffee grinds and ginger

26.75 Scented candles in a sauna
Highland Northern
£90.75 inc free p&p
At first we noted ‘foamed banana’, then muesli (perhaps Sugar-Puffs) with dried banana and desiccated coconut. Then came ‘ginestra candle’, eucalyptus and sauna scents, which resolved into minerals

G5.4 Sweet Treats
Single Cask Grain
£51.60 inc. free p&p
sweet bourbon-like treats – banana toffee, golden syrup, barley sugar, pecan pie, maple syrup on pancakes, rum and raisin, sugar on cornflakes; vague hints of coconut, balsa wood, vanilla and felt-tip pens

Compare with…?
G5.3 Extraordinary taste intensity
Single Cask Grain
£51.60 inc. free p&p
We found a fabulous, unusual nose – polished oak, coconut and
perfumed smoke; curry spices, toasted sesame seeds and aniseed

Nov Preview Pair Offer: 76.87 & *29.106 for only £83.50

29.106 Old lace & lavender hand cream
Islay
*Exclusive to this pair offer
Big and smoky to taste with white pepper, barbecued prawns,
heather, chalky violets, sweet oysters and charcoal

*October Outturn SAVINGS:
Oct Naughty Pair: 64.32 & 93.46
Electric Six: 64.32, 26.82, 37.49, 93.46, 4.155 & 53.154
*Very last few bottles, 4.155 sold-out completely except within the Electric Six

Super, natural spirits…
We’ve found some lurking in our cupboards, get your hands on some before they vanish forever

Somerset Cider Apple Brandy
Cask 2. Toffee apples and scented cedar
£39.80 inc. free p&p
22 bottles available online

116.4 Cinnamon & garden mint
Japanese single cask
13YO, Date distilled: Nov 1988
Available by the dram at 28 Queen Street (very limited)

Oct Outturn Browse all bottlings (50 single casks online)

SMWS Tastings & Events (39 events online)
All About Sherry – Queen Street, Wed 26 Oct
Oxford Preview Tasting – Oxford Castle, Fri 28 Oct
Sheffield Preview Tasting – Leopold Hold, Fri 28 Oct
Chester-le-Street Preview Tasting – Cricket Club, Fri 28 Oct
Nov Preview Tasting with Cheese – Queen Street, Tue 1 Nov
Nov Preview Tasting for the Meat-Lover – Queen Street, Wed 2 Nov
Nov Outturn Open Tasting – London, Sat 5 Nov
Nov Outturn Tasting & Carvery – The Vaults, Sun 6 Nov

More Society tastings

Society Hogmanay Celebrations: Sat 31 Dec
The Vaults Hogmanay
Hogmanay Gala Dinner: The Dining Room
Hogmanay Member’s Room Event: 28 Queen Street

Whisky Magazine’s 2012 Independent Bottler of the Year
www.whiskymag.com/awards/ibc/2011/

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

Tasting some Glendronach at TWE Vinopolis

Despite the Whisky Show taking up much of our time at TWE over the last few months, we still found time to organise our regular tastings down at our Vinopolis shop. One of the perks of my position is blagging my way into these and September was a busy one, with three tastings. There’ll be […please click on the link below to read the remainder of the article…]

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I’m sure you’re well aware that Jura is an island wrapped in superstition. The crofters build their haystacks in a clockwise direction, we never cut peat before the month of May and we also believe that good fortune comes by knocking on wood before drinking a dram. These are just a few of the many superstitions that make our island so wonderfully unique!

To celebrate our superstitious ways, we’d like to invite you to try your luck with us…

All you need to do is click here and find the 13 superstitions hidden on our special Superstition page. If you’re keen-eyed and spot them all you might just win a luxury trip to Jura! Then you can come and experience all the island’s superstitions for yourself. There are other prizes available too so, log on, as they say and fingers crossed!

Slainte

Willie Cochrane
Jura Distillery Manager

P.S. If you have friends or family who also share your passion for jura whisky and might like to become Diurachs, send them to www.isleofjura.com where they’ll discover more about our mystical isle.

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Highland Queen Majesty 30 Year Old

Single Highland Scotch Whisky

WAS £110.00 – NOW £80.00 SAVE £30.00

Highland Queen has been produced in Scotland for over 100 years. It takes the name from Mary Queen of Scots, who reigned from 1545 to1567 and was executed in 1587 on the order of Elisabeth 1st, Queen of England.

Majesty 30 years old is the oldest and rarest expression of Highland Queen, with only 2000 bottles produced. It has exceptional elegance and softness on the nose, with the sweetness golden syrup, butterscotch and creamy toffee. Long and elegant to the end the finish has amazing finese with gentle nut notes, hints of dates, citrus notes and the softness of vanilla creams.

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Grant’s 25 Years Old in the 2012 Whisky Bible

Good afternoon,

You may recall this time last year when I wrote about how Grant’s 25 Year Old had been named ‘Best Blended Scotch Whisky, 19 Years and Over’ by Jim Murray of Whisky Bible fame. Well, I’m pleased to say we have been honoured with this most coveted title for the second year running.

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Kind regards,
Ludo