Charlie Patton… “It takes boozy booze, Lord, to cure these blues…”
Aficionados, of any variety, can quickly recall the moment when they were first smitten. Whether…
Author Josh Hammond
Why You Feel Smarter After A Few Beers
Editor’s Note: What’s a bar without friends, whisky, beer and some jokes. Here are a few…
The Salmon Whisperer
“The way to a man’s heart is through his fly.” I read that on a…
A Post-Independence Vote Dram: Glenmorangie, The Select
The historic indenpendence vote for a free Scotland and the start of Fall has coincided…
Welcome to WhiskyMoods
We’re thrilled you are here, and we hope you linger for a while, maybe a dram’s…
High West’s Campfire Selected as WM’s Whisky of the Month
The editors of Transcendental Dram are pleased to announce the selection of High West Whiskey’s…
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
I went to see Milos Forman’s classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, three days…
Pretty Woman, Walking Down The Street
Only in the song does she turn around and come back. Here is Bella Monica…
Tombstone Cocktail
A preface: This cocktail was first mixed and drunk at the National Historic Landmark Woodlawn…
Waltzing Matilda
For a nation with a land mass slightly smaller than the contiguous 48 U.S. states…
Eyes for the Sea
She’s not wooden and she can really see. All other figureheads on ships and boats—women,…
A Great Way to See and Taste Scotland…McLeanScotland Tours
McLeanScotland is a comprehensive tour service based in Perth, Scotland, central to all the action,…
Wine School Online with Eric Asimov: A Lot of Interactive Fun
When it comes to food, I like to think of wine as the in-between alcohol…
The New Face (and legs) of Jim Beam
Mila Kunis is a 30 year-old, Ukrainian-born American actress, best known for making “most beautiful…
Balcones Brimstone Corn Whisky: Purification Through A Texas Fire
Brimstone is another name for sulfur. The name of a DC Comics character. A novel…
Laphroaig Select: TD’s Whisky of the Month
The editors of Transcendental Dram are excited about our selection of Laphroaig Select as TD’s…
America Wins by Losing at The World Cup: We Haven’t Given Up Our Budweiser, But Now, Hopefully, The USA Is “weiser”.
Could the USA’s loss to Belgium in the Round of 16 of the 2014 World…
The Card Players. What’s Going On Here?
Or what’s not going on here? This is the best known of post-impressionist Paul Cézanne’s…
Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Absinthe was first used as a way to prevent French soldiers from getting malaria during…
On Target With Bulleit
From the Bulleit website: “A tavern keeper in 1830s Louisville, Kentucky, Augustus Bulleit was dedicated…
The Porch of Maidens with TD Update
This is TD’s view of the Erechtheum’s “Porch of Maidens,” an ancient Greek temple on…
Here’s to “The Working Hours”—It’s a Short Story
Any short story that has bars, drinking and Powers (Irish whiskey) is worth reading. In…
Ray’s Manhattan: TD’s First Out of the Way Cocktail
You can’t order this cocktail at The Ritz, George V, The Peninsula, Villa San Michele,…
I Took Heart From Omaha Beach
If you visit any National Park in the USA, or any shoreline, it is against…
What Do You Get When You Mix Dom Perignon With David Lynch?
This. David Lynch is the Dom Perignon of filmmakers. He has developed a unique, surrealistic…
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of Plantation Guadaloupe 1998 Rhum Agricole
This is not the rum from the song in Robert Louis Stevenson’s book, Treasure Island,…
Is Woodford Reserve’s TV Commercial Sexist?
“When I see a man drinking bourbon, I expect him to be the kind who…
Time To Create A California Chrome Cocktail
What does France’s Frank Sinatra, Charles Aznavour, pictured here, have in common with California Chrome,…
“The beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert…”
Kris Kristofferson’s Sunday Mornings (and week-day mornings) are coming down. His songs are catching up…
Best Poker Scene in Movies
Poker is not made for the movies: it moves too slowly, the real action is…