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J&B, one of the world’s most renowned whisky brands has joined forces with producer Russ Chimes to create a unique international music project. J&B City Remix has been launched across 12 countries to inspire people all over the world to make groundbreaking music in an unconventional way. This J&B initiative is designed specifically to celebrate global cities and the energy that makes them special.

Taking inspiration from ambient city sounds, Chimes created a unique party track
composed of a mix between the vibrancy of urban metropolises and a memorable bass
line. To help bring this concept to life, renowned short film director Patrick Jean worked
with Chimes to create an original music video to accompany the track and to show how everyday sounds can lead to great music.

The project enables anyone to contribute to the remix by using the J&B City Remix iPhone App to record and upload sounds of their own cities via the J&B City Remix
Website or Facebook App. The final tracks will be exclusively launched at J&B parties
all over the world in early 2012.

Ohio’s only artisinal micro-distillery turns out small-batch spirits using local ingredients

You may know that a few big brands (The Limited and Abercrombie & Fitch) call Columbus, Ohio home, but more recently small-batch operations (Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream and Homage) have been helping get the Midwest some of the recognition it deserves. A new creatively-minded business, Middle West Spirits, is the latest to join the movement. Ohio’s first and only grain-to-bottle micro-distillery, the upstart brews their distinctly smooth Oyo vodkas and whiskey from soft red winter wheat that’s sourced locally.

Founders Brady Konya and Ryan Lang imported a 600-liter copper and stainless steel distillation system from Germany, which German master-craftsmen (in the business for over 200 years) came on-site to build in the 3,200-square-foot facility (a former taxi cab center).

Lang comes from a long line of distillers (his grandparents were even bootleggers) and uses that family history to marry cutting-edge technology to traditional techniques. Also a nod to the past, the name—pronounced Oh-Why-Oh—was the old-world name given to the Ohio River Valley by the Native Americans settled there, which means “beautiful river.”

We recently tried the three varieties on tap at Middle West Spirits—Oyo whiskey, vodka and a honey vanilla bean vodka, which infuses local wildflower honey and fair-trade vanilla beans from Uganda. All three are super pleasant on the palate, perfect for sipping or pouring over ice cream. Popping open the wax-sealed top immediately reveals an enticingly robust aroma begging for play.

With their hands in Columbus’ community arts scene and a host of liquors that embody a farm-fresh mentality, Middle West Spirits is a great example of the power of independent production and future Ohio endeavors. Each bottle is hand-numbered and sells for around $35.

I’ve been telling people for years that whiskey cures every thing. Im glad that Alexander Shprygin, the head of the head of the Russian supporters association, now agrees with me.

Russian football fans have been advised to drink whisky when they visit Britain for a football World Cup qualifier next month, as the country’s top supporter’s association claimed it could protect them from swine flu.

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Aussie brand ASM Liquor is claiming its Naked Scot won’t make you want to kill yourself in the morning. They say Naked Scot is a “hangover-free” whisky because it’s free of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides — a claim which implies that all other whiskies contain those forbidden fruits. 

Hmm i dont know about that.
1. Being irish, we dont trust the scots.
2. whats the fun of drinking whiskey if you dont wake up with a hangover.