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You can’t accuse Kiefer Sutherland of being all hat and no cattle. Whiskey in tow, the Canadian actor, singer and guitarist is touring with his country-rock band to support Reckless & Me, his latest album.
Going mobile: A whiskey decanter for your travels
You might not want to take it through airport security, but we can see the Travel Decanter making itself useful elsewhere—like, say, on that summer kayaking trip to one of the most beautiful places on Earth. At Paste, Jim Vorel sizes up this new gadget, now raising funds on Kickstarter.
Cocktails aren’t our favorite thing, but we’re a sucker for a well-made Boulevardier, which is basically a Negroni with whiskey instead of gin. The Manual’s Taylor Tobin canvases U.S. bartenders to round up the 10 best whiskies for this Prohibition-era standard.
Let’s face it: whiskey competitions are as common as Cardi B singles. Still, we hope this new one is the first of many. The inaugural Scottish Whisky Awards, which recognize business smarts as well as great-tasting drams, recently announced 52 companies and 97 whiskies as finalists.
Although some physicists disagree, senseless tragedies like this make us think the universe really is a giant video game. A recent fire at one of Jim Beam’s 126 barrel warehouses in Kentucky burned up about 45,000 casks of bourbon, the New York Times reports.
If you’ve never heard of Jessie Buckley, enjoy her rise to stardom before Hollywood ruins the whole thing. In Wild Rose, the Irish actor (Chernobyl) plays Rose-Lynn Harlan, a Scottish ex-con and single mom who dreams of making it in Nashville.
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