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FROM THE BARLIST JOURNAL
From beginner guides to bar selections and distillery stories, our editorial content helps you discover the world behind the bottle.
Cocktails
Some cocktails become important because they perfect an old structure. Others matter because they bring two unlikely worlds together and make the connection feel inevitable. The Chartreuse Swizzle belongs to the second group. Its foundation is Green Chartreuse, one of the most distinctive herbal liqueurs in the world, produced by Carthusian monks from a guarded […]
June 9, 2026
History
Rye Whiskey tells one of the clearest stories in American spirits history because its rise, disappearance, and revival follow the country’s own shifts in agriculture, law, migration, industry, and bar culture. Before Bourbon became the dominant American Whiskey reference, rye stood at the center of distilling in the Northeast. It belonged to farms, river towns, […]
June 8, 2026
Discovery and Education
Islay is not a large island, but few places in the whisky world carry so much weight. Its coastline, peat bogs, warehouses, ferry routes, village halls, and distillery courtyards have shaped one of Scotland’s most recognisable spirit landscapes. Long before Fèis Ìle became a global whisky pilgrimage, it began as something more local and more […]
June 7, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
In the early 1800s, the Livet valley already had a whisky reputation before it had legal certainty. Small Highland stills operated through geography, local protection, taxation pressure, and rural necessity. Whisky from the Glenlivet area was known beyond the valley, but much of the system that produced it remained outside formal law. The turning point […]
June 6, 2026
Mixology
The modern cocktail was not born from comfort. It was shaped by interruption, exile, poor supply, legal pressure, and the forced reinvention of American drinking culture. Prohibition was designed to remove alcohol from public life in the United States, yet between 1920 and 1933, it created the conditions that changed how cocktails were made, served, […]
June 5, 2026
Trending
International Cognac Day is observed each year on June 4, but the spirit it recognizes belongs to a much longer calendar. Cognac is shaped by harvests, distillation seasons, oak maturation, and a legal framework that has turned a regional wine distillate into one of France’s most carefully protected spirits. Its identity begins in the Charente, […]
June 4, 2026
People & Innovation
Long before Chartreuse became a fixture behind cocktail bars and spirits collections, it survived political upheaval, revolution, exile, confiscation, and repeated attempts to separate it from the people who created it. Few products in the spirits world have remained so closely tied to a single religious community for so long. The story of Chartreuse is […]
June 3, 2026
Barlist
The southern coast of Islay has long been associated with peat smoke, maritime weather, and some of Scotland’s most influential whisky distilleries. Yet few names have acquired the near-mythical status of Port Ellen Distillery. For more than four decades, the distillery existed in an unusual state: closed, silent, and unable to produce a single drop […]
June 2, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Few Scotch whisky distilleries have experienced a history as uncertain as Ardbeg Distillery. Today, Ardbeg stands among the most recognisable names in heavily peated whisky, celebrated for expressions such as Ardbeg 10 Years Old, Ardbeg Uigeadail, and Ardbeg Corryvreckan. Yet the distillery’s modern success was far from inevitable. Between the early 1980s and the late […]
June 1, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Before Speyside became a defined whisky region, distillation across the area existed in fragments. It was local, often unlicensed, and tied closely to farm life. At Cardow, near Archiestown in Moray, whisky production began in 1811, when John and Helen Cumming started distilling on their land. By the time Cardhu Distillery was formally established in […]
May 31, 2026
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