Month: May 2026

Walk into any neighbourhood whiskey bar on a Friday night and you’ll hear it — guests circling a glass of bourbon, searching for the right words. “Smoky?” “Sweet?” “Something… toasty?” Learning how to talk about bourbon has quietly become part of the social fabric for tasting groups, supper clubs and local distillery tours, and it… Continue reading Sipping with confidence: a local bourbon lover’s guide to describing whiskey like a pro

For Tampa’s growing community of bourbon enthusiasts — from the speakeasies along 7th Avenue in Ybor City to the riverside cocktail bars in Downtown — there is reason to raise a glass this week. A federal decision to lift tariffs on whiskies coming in from the United Kingdom is rippling all the way down to… Continue reading Tampa bourbon bars cheer as UK whiskey tariff reversal saves a Kentucky-to-England favourite

Corstorphine has a tiny new neighbour. Edinburgh Zoo has announced the arrival of Scotland’s first ever baby sloth, a male Linne’s two-toed sloth born on Monday to first-time parents Feira and Nico. Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) have named the newborn Atty, in tribute to Sir David Attenborough, who marked his… Continue reading Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Scotland’s first baby sloth, named Atty after Sir David Attenborough