Search Home Top Drinks Submit a Drink Recipe Box Drinks Blog Drink Recipes Wine Reviews Cocktail Food Bar Supplies Home Buyers Guide First World Trash Wine Satchel First World Trash Wine Satchel Jonas Halpren Thursday , November 29, 2012 If you have a wine lover on your list , this wine satchel is a great way to get them to bring wine to your . house Each one of a kind wine satchel is hand crafted from almost entirely recycled materials . The body is made of recycled and cleaned billboard vinyl and the straps come from old seat belts . The bottom is reinforced with recycled bicycle inner tubes , which is good because this bag hold six bottles . In the inside there is a collapsible six bottle divider and two zippered pockets for other gear . It can easily handle six bottles of all sorts
ALBANY — Holiday events abound in the Capital Region, with plenty of shopping and sampling combinations on the horizon. One such is a little something called “Sip. Shop. Save,” scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5, at the Albany Holiday Market at Quackenbush Square. Visitors will be offered a 20% discount on [...]
ALBANY — If you have a hankering for a burger and a beer, the Capital City Gastropub has a deal you may like. Every Wednesday night, chef Kevin Everleth is offering half-price grass-fed burgers (well, the meat comes from grass-fed cattle raised at Kilcoyne Farms in Brasher Falls, near Watertown) as well as $3 select [...]
: Dowd's Spirits Notebook William M . Dowd reports and comments on distilled beverages globally a Dowd's Guides site 20121119 Glenmorangie and its effervescent distiller on top Bill Lumsden , not-so-mad scientist In the two decades or so I've known Dr . Bill Lumsden , I have never witnessed his enthusiasm for his beloved Scotch whiskies reach anything but the highest . levels Whether he is experimenting with many different woods for aging , trying different blends , glad-handing industry folks around the globe , hosting visiting distillers and spirits journalists , working with his team to create sales campaigns for his heavenly whiskies , tramping around the white oak forests of Missouri as we did together a few years back to select special trees to be turned into whisky kegs , or any
In the two decades or so I’ve known Dr. Bill Lumsden (right), I have never witnessed his enthusiasm for his beloved Scotch whiskies reach anything but the highest levels. Whether he is experimenting with many different woods for aging, trying different blends, glad-handing industry folks around the globe, hosting visiting distillers and spirits journalists, working [...]
As we drove past the Price Chopper on Route 9 in Latham the other day, Constant Companion and I discussed the planned changes to that location that the company hopes will turn it into a destination spot — a dozen or so food mini-”restaurants,” specialty departments, live cooking demos and classes, etc. What hasn’t been [...]
: Dowd's Spirits Notebook William M . Dowd reports and comments on distilled beverages globally a Dowd's Guides site 20121107 Kentucky-Ireland whiskey connection strengthened A Vendome copper . still Irish whiskey is known worldwide , but there are only four producing distilleries in Ireland . That number now is about to be bumped up by . one The Alltech all-manual craft distillery has just finished installing pot stills at its Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown , County . Carlow The stills , made in Louisville , KY , by Vendome Copper Brass Works Inc . are about to go online to begin the process of creating Alltech's first made-in-Ireland whiskey to be released some time in 2015. Our whiskey is 100 malt , made with only two other ingredients water and distiller’s yeast , said Pearse