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GSN Alert: 10th Annual Cocktails for Comfort fundraising campaign October 11–20, 2024

New York, New York: Chemo Comfort, an all-volunteer run organization founded in 2003 by three-time cancer survivor Anne Marie Paolucci, provides cancer patients with kits of products to help manage chemotherapy’s side effects. Ms. Paolucci’s mission comes from personal experience: “Starting chemotherapy is a frightening experience. We are saying to patients ‘Here is a box of tools put together by…

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GSN Review: Milagro Cristalino Anejo

Milagro Tequila recently announced the brand’s first core range addition in 10 years, Milagro Cristalino Añejo. Milagro’s Cristalino Añejo is crafted with 100% blue agave handpicked from the Highlands of Jalisco at peak maturity. It is aged for 18-24 months in American ex-Bourbon and French Oak casks before being filtered through charcoal to obtain a crystal-clear liquid. The result is a…

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GSN Alert: New Spirits Releases 9.20.24

Basil Hayden 10 Year BourbonBasil Hayden 10 Year Bourbon is made using the same high-rye mash bill as the standard offering, one of four bottles in the Beam Small Batch Collection. After 10 years of aging in new, charred American oak barrels it’s bottled at 80 proof. First announced in December 2018 as a limited edition annual bottling for the holidays, as of fall 2024 it is a permanent addition…

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GSN Review: Mitra9 Kava RTDs

Mitra9 brings ancient herbal traditions into the 21st century, crafting plant-based elixirs that transform nature into an invigorating beverage. They offer a unique selection of kava-infused drinks, including Coconut Lychee, Strawberry Watermelon, Orange Dreamsicle, and Sparkling Lemonade flavors. For years, kava, a traditional beverage made from the Piper methysticum plant with over 3000 years…

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GSN Review: Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum

This summer, Maison Ferrand introduced Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum, a rum blend that pays homage to the heritage and craftsmanship of Navy rum. Drawing from four of the main rum-producing Caribbean islands historically used in Navy blends – Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica, Mister Fogg is available as a limited edition. The rum launch is accompanied by the in-depth co-authored book…

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GSN Review: Sentinel of the Desert Rye

“What if we added a Southwest twist on rye?” That question kept popping up at the Del Bac distillery. They finally decided to try it. As a small team, they couldn’t take time away from producing their handcrafted American single malts to make their own rye so they sourced from Indiana and added their own twist as they finished it. For Sentinel, they start with a blend of three-year-old and…

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GSN Review: Sheringham Seaside Gin

Sheringham caught global attention in their fourth year of business, after their flagship spirit, Seaside Gin, took home the World’s Best Contemporary Gin award in the World Gin Awards in London, UK. “Every chef has the same ingredients in their pantry, but the skill lies in how they balance each flavor to create a unique outcome. This is the Sheringham approach to crafting spirits.” Jason…

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GSN Book Review: Malört The Redemption of a Revered & Reviled Spirit

Malört may be the worst thing you’ll ever taste. Known primarily for its intense bitterness, the infamous Chicago liqueur has been compared to “a forest fire, if the forest was made of earwax.” Yet lurking in the horror and the mockery lies the truth of Malört: we keep going back for more. For nearly a hundred years, we’ve gone back. Jeppson’s Malört could have died a hundred deaths in that time.…

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GSN Book Review: A Most Noble Water by Miller & Brown

A Most Noble Water presents an entirely new history of gin. Researched and written by award-winning drinks historians Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller, it shatters the whole notion of a Dutch origin and revisits English gin’s German antecedents and definitively English origins. A Most Noble Water is the first book to present in detail the recipes that led up to the development of modern-day gin…

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GSN Review: Hardhide Chilton County Peach Whiskey

Sidewalk Side Spirits, a New Orleans-based spirits brand incubator, recently announced the release of Hardhide Chilton County Peach Whiskey, the latest addition to their growing portfolio. This new offering joins its sibling, the company’s popular Hardhide Ponchatoula Strawberry Whiskey, bringing a taste of the South to flavored whiskey enthusiasts everywhere. The company’s founder and CEO, John…

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GSN Alert: New Spirits Releases 9.13.24

Angel’s Envy Triple OakTriple Oak joins the brand’s Signature Series which also includes the Port Wine Barrel finished bourbon released in 2011 and Caribbean Rum Cask finished rye released in 2013. It’s made from a blend of three oak-finished bourbons with the followings types of barrels: Hungarian oak (Hungary), Chinkapin oak (Kentucky), French oak (France). Bottled at 46%, this is an ongoing…

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GSN Review: TRÄ•KÁL Patagonian Spirit

TRÄ•KÁL is a botanical spirit that doesn’t fit into traditional categories. Everything that goes into a bottle of TRÄ•KÁL grows wild in the Chilean Patagonia. The company uses water, fruit, herbs and berries from within 100sq kilometers of their distillery to make this new type of botanical spirit. Local apples, crab-apples, and pears are used to create the base distillate. During the second…

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GSN Review: Uncle Nearest 777 Anniversary Blend

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is set to launch its ‘Lost Chapter’ series. The collection of limited edition whiskeys will give fans access to unreleased chapters of Uncle Nearest Founder and CEO Fawn Weaver’s acclaimed book, Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest. Debuting just a month ago on June 18,…

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GSN Alert: New Spirits Releases 9.6.24

Bardstown Bourbon Co. Discovery Series #12This is the 12th release in the Discovery Series which highlights the art of blending. Here the brand blended four different Kentucky straight bourbon whiskies together, each with a different mash bill. The bulk (48%) of the blend was aged 14 years followed by two 10 year-olds (29% and 15%, respectively), and a 6 year-old four grain bourbon (8%) which was…

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Parker's Heritage 18th Edition: 14-Year-Old Malt Whiskey Review

Heaven Hill Distillery announced this month the release of the 18th edition of the Parker’s Heritage Collection featuring a 14-year-old Kentucky Straight Malt Whiskey Finished in Reconstructed Heavy Toast Cognac Barrels. Like previous editions, a portion of the proceeds will continue to support ALS research and patient care in honor of Parker Beam, late Master Distiller Emeritus. This edition is…