Holiday Cocktail Recipes With Bourbon
With many people taking this week off, The Holiday Spirit is slowly fermenting. But there are other spirits flowing this week as well – whiskey, scotch & tequila! Clearly the holiday season is in full effect. Since most Rugged Males don’t love champagne, or it’s certainly…
Our Interview with Tom Bulleit
Staying true to our motto – Inspiring Men About Women, Whiskey & Proper Manners, we sit down with Tom Bulleit of Bulleit Bourbon. There is perhaps no finer man to discuss whiskey and proper manners. Q: A lot of our readers drink bourbon. What do you…
Five Award Winning Whiskeys Not Named Jack, Jim or Jameson
Earlier this year San Francisco hosted its 2016 Annual Spirits Competition. While it seems just about every home hack with a backyard still can enter the competition, we will assume the judging and awards are tip top. Since we are not a bunch of Moscow Mules…
Chicago’s Legendary Barman: Donnie Kruse
By Michael McDermott I’ve stepped into his restaurant a million times, but never in the daylight. Funny how places look different in the light of day. Places always look smaller, less celebratory in the light, which always makes me a little sad. Perhaps it’s a result…
Give The Gift of Wine This Holiday Season
Still shopping for your difficult parents, uncle or brother who already have everything and don’t want anything? Give the gift of wine this holiday season. Columbia Crest is the first and only place you should go to shop for the wine lovers and winos on your…
The Rugged Male Goes To The Vineyard!
Earlier this month we were invited to come visit one of our long term sponsors – Columbia Crest Vineyard in Patterson, Washington. Now we completely understand that the wine life is not the most rugged of lifestyles and that being a wino probably carries more street cred than…
Calling All Winos – Columbia Crest Winery
Over a year has passed since our sponsor Columbia Crest asked us to help spread the word about their Crowdsourced Cabernet campaign. Followers of Columbia Crest were able to participate in the wine making process, choosing barrels, picking grapes and other aspects of the wine making process. Well…
Ten Commandments Of Grilling
This article comes from our friends at Hot Ass Kitchen, your kitchen wingman! Somewhere in between standing upright and inventing the wheel, man discovered fire. Over the centuries and millennia that followed, man harnessed that fire to forge metal into weapons of war, burned fossil…
Super Bowl Fun – Whiskey, Wings & Wagers
Its that time of year again when the whole country gets together to do what Americans do better than any nation in the world- Eat, Drink & Watch TV! Today’s modern gladiators take the arena on Sunday to decide who is the best football team on…
At Risk: The Most Common Vices For Men
We all have bad habits and some of us have had some really bad habits. Engaging in a little vice is just part of growing up. Expanding your horizons and understanding your limitations is a good thing. Men can be like little kids when it…