After his epic Whisky & Wine 101 masterpiece, Ainsley swings in with the first chapter of his follow up on Malternatives: this is a whisky-lovers guide to rum!

Ainsley is back with another cracking ‘ Malternatives ’ guide for whisky fans, this time he’s sharing Cognac and Armagnac with three recommendations and a review with Serge. Fascinating stuff!

After his epic Whisky & Wine 101 masterpiece, Ainsley swings in with the first chapter of his follow up on Malternatives: this is a whisky-lovers guide to rum!

The “beyond beer” or 'malternatives' space looks similar to a bowl of jelly beans these days. At one time there were just a handful of choices that were simple to understand, like cherry, green apple and orange – or, in bev-alc’s case, hard cider, wine coolers and malt-based hard lemonade. Now, in the continued era of “everything can be an alcoholic beverage,” what you pull from the bowl has become harder to define. Akin to how buttered popcorn, chili mango and toothpaste entered the mix, beyond beer now consists of beer-, wine- and spirits-based ready-to-drink cocktails (RTDs); THC infused beverages;

Refreshers are like opinions – no one's the same, but everyone’s got one. Numerous fruity and colorful hard beverages have hit the shelves in the past two years, labeled as “refreshers,” but that...