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The LiquorHound Has the Finest Palate in Texas How a postal carrier became the palate and nose for North Texas’ most promising distillery. By Eve Hill-Agnus Published in Food & Drink January 13, 2021 10:45 am Photography by Elizabeth Lavin Approximately 2,500 liquor bottles line the display case—six shelves tall, three feet wide, four or five bottles deep—that takes up half the kitchen and spills into the living room of Chris Trevino’s Fort Worth home. Part of the collection resides in...

The Milford Daily News Movies have been getting made in Massachusetts for almost as long as movies have been getting made anywhere. The first movie filmed in the Bay State, according to the Massachusetts Film Office website, was the “Rip Van Winkle Series” dating from 1896 to 1903 and shot on Cape Cod. The Wikipedia website lists more than 200 films shot in the Bay State, but the Massachusetts Film office website lists plenty more. Thanks to tax credits, which went into effect in 2006, more...

The Mary Sues discuss what things are harder to get into than the Capitol building, because apparently insurrection is easy.

Buffalo Trace Waited 40 Years to Release This Rare Bourbon Mens Journal 1/7/2021 G. Clay Whittaker © Courtesy Image Decanter, rocks glasses, and bottle of rare Buffalo Trace whiskey thats been aging since 1980 Buffalo Trace capped off the bourbon world’s 2020 rare releases with one of the quirkiest bottles we’ve seen in years: Buffalo Trace 1980. It’s actually one of three rare spirits released within Last Drop Distillers’ “2020 Autumn Collection.” The rare sp...

Pappy is highly-regarded and sought-after.

1/07/2021 01:05:00 PM On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for December. The consensus is for 70 thousand jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to increase to 6.8%. • ADP Report: The ADP employment report showed a loss of 123,000 private sector jobs, well below the consensus estimate of 88 thousand jobs added.  The ADP report hasnt been very useful in predicting the BLS report, but this suggests the BLS report could be weaker than expected. • ISM Surv...

Using recipes dating back four generations, the highly sought-after whiskeys have been produced at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky since 2002, according to the PLCB.  The 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, which is valued at $249.99 per bottle, scored a 99 out of 100 at the 1998 World Spirits Championship, according to Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Lottery winners will have the chance to purchase one of 1,931 bottles of Van Winkle whiskey. Six separate drawings will be condu...

THE STANDARD By Barack Muluka | January 2nd 2021 at 09:05:00 GMT +0300 The ended year will be etched in world history as a terrible year. It has been the perfect Greek annus horribilis, a season rich in unending tragedy, pain and suffering. In the first instalment of this column in January last year, I doubted the euphoric wisdom of shouting away ‘old years’ and shouting in ‘happy new years,’ almost as if we had sacred covenants with time. I questioned the notion of inherently happy ...

Paul Richard Flawn, inset, burgled Smokin’ Aces in Commercial Road, Bournemouth, in October A BURGLAR who claimed he did not know the high value of two limited edition bottles of whiskey that he stole from a Bournemouth bar has been jailed. Paul Richard Flawn said he did not specifically take the 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bottles, worth a combined £4,000, from Smokin’ Aces in Commercial Road. Judge Robert Pawson told Flawn, 52 and of Bath Road, Bournemouth, whether he knew the alc...

A look back at 2020 — January-March: High hopes, then a pandemic News Journal An historic building in Blanchester was destroyed by an overnight fire. (Photo by JoJo Van Winkle.) The Blanchester High School boys basketball team, co-champions of the SBAAC National Division, and fans celebrate going 21-1 on the year before finally falling to Fenwick in the sectional tournament. An historic building in Blanchester was destroyed by an overnight fire. (Photo by JoJo Van Winkle.) The Wilmington H...