Legs — The streams inside a whiskey tasting glass that denotes age and alcohol content. Lincoln County Process (Leaching) — The process in Tennessee wherein whiskey is filtered or mellowed ...

I was talking to Carey Bringle, aka The Peg Leg Porker, last week on the phone and asked him what he was doing. He told me he was burning some hickory down to charcoal to use in the filtration of ...

Some like it neat. Others prefer it on the rocks. But a rare glimpse of Beam Suntory’s financial health showed about what one might expect: We Americans enjoy our whiskey.

Some whisky is very light, with lots of legs (an indication of light flavor), while others can be viscous or oily indicating an older, heavier-bodied whisky.