Awesome Whiskey

Jim Beam’s first single-barrel is an exceptional bourbon, crafted in hand-selected barrels. It has a great, full-bodied flavor, but is immensely drinkable – with just the right amount of sweetness and richness. Out March 2014.

What happens when you dip plump pecans in cream, sugar, and Old No. 7? Sweet and salty deliciousness in a box. While they won’t get you drunk like these chocolate bars, they are still tasty. Bigger packages sold on Amazon.

The best Kentucky Bourbon from Jim Beam, Booker’s is prepared uncut in small batches and bottled straight from the barrel. Aged six to eight years, it’s a grand 120-130 proof oaky, vanilla experience for your nose and mouth.

Possibly the greatest chocolate bar we’ve ever tasted, this Swiss-made Goldkenn chocolate is filled with a real Jack Daniel’s whiskey syrup center with a touch of sugar wrapped around it. And yes, it will get you buzzed.

If it wasn’t strange enough to see Bruce Lee reincarnated via CGI, it’s even more odd that his uncanny doppelgänger is appearing in a promo for Johnnie Walker Blue – since clean-living Bruce never drank. Still, it’s worth watching.

Ready to upgrade your Jameson’s? This exceptionally smooth pot-stilled 12-y.o. Irish whiskey offers a spicy, honeyed flavor, and is perfect for slow sipping. Even more special is the single pot-still Powers John’s Lane Release.

It’s hard to improve on a classic Scotch whiskey, but collaborating with Italian design firm Pininfarina for a limited-edition series of specially-packaged Chivas 18 is a good start.

To commemorate the band’s 50th anniversary, Suntory has concocted a batch of just 150 bottles of this woody Japanese whisky, in an awesome lip-and-tongue decanter, to be priced at ~$6300 each.

A whiskey glass with a twist. Instead of adding ice cubes or stones, this one holds a molded sphere of ice which rolls around your drink. Thanks to its shape, the ice melts slowly and cools drinks fast.

Bushmills takes their triple-distilled Irish whiskey and ads just the tiniest hint of Irish honey to smooth out any rough edges. Thankfully, it’s not sticky or sweet, so the whiskey still shines through.

..You Must Taste Before You Die features the best Scotches, Ryes and Bourbons, as selected by former Whisky Magazine editor Dominic Roskrow and a team of conoisseurs from around the world.

Online spirits retailer Master of Malt is offering Drinks by the Dram samples in simple, stylish packaging; customers can purchase 3cl samples of whisky at the fraction of the price of a whole bottle.

If you think Whiskey Stones are neat but would rather not see them swimming in your drink, maybe you’ll like them better as shot glasses. Just leave these in the freezer for 4 hours before use.

Jack Daniel’s latest adds a hint of honey liquor to take the edge off the potent Tennessee whiskey. Not for serious whiskey drinkers, but nice for a summery cocktail or a lazy afternoon on the porch.

The first whiskey distillery to open in New York City since prohibition, Kings County Distillery makes old fashioned corn whiskey moonshine in Brooklyn. Minimal packaging befits its smooth, potent kick.

With its final 18 months spent luxuriating in French Bordeaux barriques, the Dalmore Castle Leod limited edition single malt whisky offers a sensual finish of kiwi, sweet pear and sweet mango.

An annual membership to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society gets you access to limited edition bottles from 120 distilleries, four testers of single malt scotch, and other goodies. Renewals just $60/yr.

The Portland General Store sells products laced with the manliest scent of all, manlier than Sex Panther – Whiskey. They sell whiskey-scented shaving soap, shaving jelly, and even perfume.

In celebration of the 160th birthday of the venerable Tennessee whiskey maker, Jack Daniel’s presents this limited-edition black bottle of Old No. 7. Hmmm, should we look at it or start sipping?

Buffalo Trace Distillery is releasing the 2 latest whiskeys in its rare and limited Experimental Collection – one aged in a new toasted French oak barrel; the other from a used American White oak.

The Drinkhacker guys tell us The Glenrothes limited-release single-malt whiskey has a heavy coconut nose, along with banana and other tropical flavors in the body, and is easy to drink. Yum.

Not only does this Islay single malt Scotch whiskey have the coolest name we’ve heard in eons, the guys at Drinkhacker tell us the 10-year Sherry and 15-year Valhalla editions taste great too.

Scotland’s McKay Flooring has figured out a way to turn beautiful oak whiskey barrels into flat boards, many with their distinctive branding intact, and convert them into flooring instead of trash.