Ryes

Whiskey aficionados may claim that Manhattans must be made with fiery, grassy rye while an Old Fashioned requires the sweetness of bourbon. But a new study from a Washington State University aroma and flavor chemist and colleagues shows the average ...

You have two glasses of American whiskey in front of you at a blind tasting that have a similar color. You smell one and think it is bourbon because of its smooth caramel flavor, while the other must be the rye because it comes off as dry and brash ...

This is what makes the new bottling of Michter's 10-Year-Old Single Barrel Straight Rye ($150) so noteworthy. Master Distiller Willie Pratt had a batch ready to ship to retail last year, but he tasted it and decided it wasn't ready to bottle yet. Pratt ...

The study, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, is not a test to see whether tasters can distinguish bourbon from rye. Its findings might lead us slightly in that direction, but what it's really looking at is something possibly even more interesting ...

A constellation of new restaurants have dawned in downtown blocks that once seemed destined to meet the wrecking ball. Marble + Rye, which opened a year ago in a former paint store around the corner from Toutant and SeaBar, is one of its shining stars.