Tag: whiskey

Picture 30-plus whiskey distillers and spirit makers serving tastes and cocktails with their finest liquor and local restaurants like 5Church, Auburn Angel, and Girl Diver offering small bites of their best dishes. The Hits Squad plays rock covers, and the Ides of June performs gritty Southern rock songs. In between eating and drinking, play lawn games, learn to roll cigars, and check out a golf simulator. This is Atlanta magazine's 10th annual Whiskey Festival.

These craft spirits show there’s more to Georgia than wine and beer. Pick a spirit that interests you and hit the road—catch a tour, have a taste, and bring a bottle home.

Opening a business just a couple of weeks before the pandemic shut down the economy may seem like spectacular bad luck. But Cory Atkinson made it work.

Slated to open in Chamblee this summer, the Distillery of Modern Art is a 15,000-square-foot space intended for spirit enthusiasts—and spirit enthusiasts who are also enthusiastic about modern art.

Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel was only ten when he learned how to run a whiskey still.

Justin Manglitz drinks only one cocktail. “It’s called The Steer’s Nuts,” says the 35-year-old Haralson County native. “It’s one part whiskey and two parts whiskey.”

Five years after launching Atlanta-based ASW Distillery, the pair finally ran liquor through their custom copper stills for the first time last month.

The cofounder of the Dogwood Table supper club shares his list of essentials and three classic cocktail recipes.

Get your rocks glasses ready, spirit drinkers. Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey has made its way back to Georgia after a five-year hiatus and experts say it might even be better now than it was before.

I am in the passenger's seat of a Chevy Silverado winding through the foothills of northeast Georgia, trying to learn the story of Carlos Lovell. But fifteen minutes into the drive, the man has barely uttered ten words from behind the wheel, and frankly, his deep, jowl-draped frown has silenced me in fear that the wrong question might land me in the ditch.