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		<title>Guest blog #4: Flavored whiskies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I introduce Jason Cretacci, a Fine Spirits Consultant in Western New York as a guest blogger. Jason explores the flavor of things . . .
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My question to the What does John know? readers concerns flavored whisk(e)ys.  I have always enjoyed Compass Box Orangerie, Wild Turkey American Honey &#38; Phillps Union Cherry Whisky.  I have also had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/09/02/guest-blog-4-flavored-whiskies/</link>
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		<title>Guest blog #3: The Whisky War Chest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate Nicoll, blogger at www.whiskywall.wordpress.com, joins &#8220;What Do You Know&#8221; as today&#8217;s guest blogger and opens the whisky war chest.
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While drinking does not always need to be a battle, and hopefully most of the time it is not, of fundamental importance to the savvy and seasoned imbiber of spirits is how one stocks the war chest.  And this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/09/01/guest-blog-3-the-whisky-war-chest/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blog #2: What killed Michter’s distillery?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest blogger on &#8220;What Do You Know?&#8221;, Ethan Smith, explores What Killed Michter’s?
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Was it because people, by 1990, no longer associated Pennsylvania with whiskey distilling? Maybe it was because whiskey consumption nationwide was declining? Or could it have been simply history closing the books on the last operating distillery in Penn’s woods? If you’re at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/31/guest-blog-2-what-killed-michter%e2%80%99s-distillery/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blog #1: Most craft whiskeys suck!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(As promised, What Does John Know? becomes &#8220;What Do you Know?&#8221; this week&#8211;and next! Let&#8217;s hit the ground running with the most controversial guest blog. Our first guest blogger, Steve Ury of www.recenteats.blogspot.com, makes his point. And he doesn&#8217;t sugar-coat it.)
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Most craft whiskeys suck! 
I&#8217;m sorry, but someone had to say it. This particular emperor has been wearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/30/guest-blog-1-most-craft-whiskeys-suck/</link>
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		<title>Ten straight guest posts, starting Monday. Don&#8217;t miss them!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting Monday, I will be putting up one guest post each weekday for two weeks straight&#8211;including Labor Day!
This all started when I was originally planning on taking vacation all next week. So, I thought it would be cool to ask you to submit a guest post. The plan was for me to pick the five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/27/ten-straight-guest-posts-starting-monday-dont-miss-them/</link>
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		<title>GlenDronach 33 yr. old returns, GlenDronach 31 yr. old debuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s nice to see Glendronach 33 year old back on the market, along with this new 31 year old “Grandeur”.  The 33 year old is nice, and I’m looking forward to comparing it to the 31 year old. It&#8217;s nice to see the higher strength on the 31 year old (although perhaps not the higher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/27/glendronach-33-yr-old-returns-glendronach-31-yr-old-debuts/</link>
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		<title>Two new Benromach “Origins” to be released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon &#38; MacPhail is following up on the first “Origins” whisky (one that featured Golden Promise barley) with two new ones, schedules for release later this year. As you can see here, I wasn&#8217;t thrilled with the first Origins release, Hopefully, these two will be better. Details are below.
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New Additions Boost Benromach Origins Range
Speyside’s smallest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/27/two-new-benromach-%e2%80%9corigins%e2%80%9d-to-be-released/</link>
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		<title>Two new Balvenie releases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are being blessed with two new Balvenie releases, a Peated Cask and a Caribbean Cask. Both press releases explaining the details of the whiskies, along with images, are below. I’ll be receiving review samples shortly and will let you know my thoughts after I taste them.
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THE BALVENIE UNVEILS NEW LIMITED EDITION ‘PEATED CASK’ 17 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/26/two-new-balvenie-releases/</link>
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		<title>New Glenmorangie &#8220;Finealta&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I assume this is the follow-up to Sonnalta PX, which I liked.
This one sounds very exciting. It is available only in Travel Retail (for now). Details below.
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Glenmorangie reveals the newest addition to its Private Edition range with GLENMORANGIE FINEALTA
The Glenmorangie Company announces the release of Glenmorangie Finealta, the latest addition to the Private Editionrange of limited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/25/new-glenmorangie-finealta/</link>
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		<title>Buffalo Trace releases newest Experimental Collection whiskeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were several new whiskey releases announced while I was out of the office last week. I&#8217;ll get you up to speed on all of them over the next few days.
First up: the two newest Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection whiskeys. Details are below in the press release I received. I tasted both (a few times) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/24/buffalo-trace-releases-newest-experimental-collection-whiskeys/</link>
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		<title>Update on guest posts for next week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you will recall, I invited you to submit a guest post for possible publication while I am on vacation next week. Submissions we due yesterday. I promised to read through them and publish the five best submissions.
Well, I received over 20 post submissions, and I&#8217;ll be reading through them this week. So, for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/24/update-on-guest-blog-posts-for-next-week/</link>
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		<title>Guest Review: Dave Broom Reviews Japan&#8217;s Nikka whiskies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nikka is Japan’s second biggest whisky producer with a large range covering blends, single grain, as well as blended and single malts from its two distilleries, Miyagikyo and Yoichi. A little bird tells me that these will be available in the States later this year. Here&#8217;s a &#8220;Nikka&#8221; taster.
Coffey Malt, 12 year old, 55%, £99
Produced at Miyagikyo’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/23/review-coffey-malt-12-year-old-55-99/</link>
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		<title>Guest Review: Ichiro’s Malt, Mizunara Wood Reserve (bottled 2010), 46%, £85</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ichiro of the title is Ichiro Akuto, scion of the family which owned the now demolished Hanyu distillery, and proprietor of the brand new and incredibly cute (yes…distilleries can be cute) Chichibu distillery — even the name’s cute. This release is a vatting of different (un-named) single malts from more than one distillery which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/20/review-ichiro%e2%80%99s-malt-mizunara-wood-reserve-bottled-2010-46-85/</link>
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		<title>Guest Review: White Oak 5 year old, 45%, £55</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eigashima distillery, on the Akashi Strait near Kobe, may be the least well known of Japan’s single malt plants, but has a sound claim to be the country’s oldest, as its license tomake whisky was granted in 1919 — four years before Yamazaki was built. It has, however, specialized in shochu, and even now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/19/review-white-oak-5-year-old-45-55/</link>
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		<title>Guest Review: Karuizawa cask 4592, 1977 (bottle 2010), ’Noh Series,’ 60.7%, £130</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The (sadly mothballed) Karuizawa distillery is at the opposite extreme to Eigashima. Peated malt, small stills, and sherry casks give a single malt of uncompromising weight and solidity. Those of you who thought Japan was all about the ethereal and limpid, think again. In musical terms, if Eigashima is the Modern Jazz Quartet, then Karuizawa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatdoesjohnknow.com/2010/08/18/review-karuizawa-cask-4592-1977-bottle-2010-%e2%80%99noh-series%e2%80%99-60-7-130/</link>
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