The exact ingredient list of Catdaddy is protected. It smells and tastes of nutmeg, vanilla, and cinnamon, like spiced rum or egg nog. But according to Piedmont, none of those elements are included. The tiny company (eight employees) revealed that Catdaddy is a corn-based whiskey (90-95%, with a little wheat bran and malt barley) that’s triple distilled. The final run is through a copper still and then infused with a blend of spices in very small batches.
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Driving the Drink: Part 2 of 3
When I came along, it had been several years since moonshine was illegal. I got into the business through my dad. Most people start with making it and sold it because that was a way of life, not that they was violating no law. They didn’t violate no law, they just didn’t pay their taxes. As I growed up into it, I got in it very largely. I was probably one of the biggest bootleggers in the country.”
Driving the Drink: Part I of 3
These individuals would use engine parts for stills, skipping the process of scrubbing out the oil or radiator fluid that ended up in the mixture, causing injury, death, and slapping homemade whiskey with a very bad rap.
Red Carpet Oscar Viewing Parties
This Sunday, March 7, is Hollywood’s Super Bowl, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The show begins at 5pm PT on the ABC network, with a five-second delay in case an award winner starts offending non-liberals in the flyover states. If you’re looking to snark, snicker, laugh or cry in public, the following venues are hosting…
The Green Fairy’s Downtown Trot
Pernod-Absinthe launched a five-city promotional tour of the best bars serving their brand of the Green Fairy. To encourage responsible drinking, they also provided transport: horse-drawn carriage rides from bar to bar.
The Thin Man – A Drinking Movie for Our Times
The Thin Man, an M-G-M film released in 1934, stars William Powell as Nick Charles, a gritty gumshoe who marries Nora, a sassy socialite played by the beautiful Myrna Loy. The film is based on the novel by hard-boiled detective author Dashiell Hammett. Although the book was written during Prohibition, the movie was released…
Death Proof & Alcohol: Drinking to A Tarantino movie
It’s obvious that drinking and driving can kill. But in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse feature Death Proof, it’s not the drinking that kills. There’s more flowing liquor than rivulets of blood in this high-octane, high-proof party not-your-stereotypical-chick chick flick. For those playing the home version of the Death Proof drinking game, here’s the line up: Shanna:…
