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OMEGA x Swatch MoonSwatch Moonshine Gold Sets
The latest collection from OMEGA and Swatch is out of this world.
The 12 Types of Whiskey Every Drinker Should Know
The first step to appreciating and understanding whiskey to the fullest extent is knowing the various types of whiskey (and whisky) out there. Each style is made following specific, and often legally binding, rules that dictate how the spirit can be made and what it can be made with. And…
One of the Most Beloved Texas Breweries Now Makes Vodka, Moonshine, and Gin
Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. It never made sense to me that more breweries don't have small distilling operations attached to them. Roughly speaking, you have to make beer to make whiskey--whiskey wash is…
2023 Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Worldtimers
The fresh and unique Seamaster Aqua Terra Worldtimer collection gets three new models in titanium and stainless steel for 2023. The laser-made dial on the 43mm titanium model sports a unique finish, and the brushed black ceramic bezel enhances the matte-finished look. It also gets a black integrated strap. The…
Nelly Launched a Spirit Brand Called MoShine. Here’s What It Tastes Like
Attention anyone who was even vaguely aware of popular music in the 2000s: Nelly is the latest celebrity to lend his personal brand to a liquor with the release of MoShine. No, this is not Just A Dream, though it is perhaps a missed opportunity to not capitalize on Pimp…
The 9 Coolest New Watches That You Can Actually Buy
The watch world is always growing and evolving. Frankly, there's no bad time to be into watches, whether you're a fan of luxury timepieces, rugged watches that can stand up to the elements, or just something casual to tie an outfit together. This isn’t an exhaustive list of the watches…
Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch “Mission to Moonshine Gold”
The Omega MoonSwatch was easily the biggest story in watches last year, by a landslide. Would-be buyers were climbing over each other at Swatch retail stores. There are now twelve versions, and the rarest of them might just be the new "Mission to Moonshine Gold." It's not clad in gold…
8 Gifts for Whiskey Lovers That Aren’t Just Whiskey Stones
Guys who like whiskey are constantly being flooded with novelty shot glasses and whiskey stones. The first are usually a little too kitschy to get a fully authentic reception, and the second have dubious results at best. You’re much better off staying away from the shot glasses and stones if…
The 5 Best Whiskey Glasses for Bourbon
There are enough whiskey glasses on the market that you could probably use a different one every day of the year and two on federal holidays and still have some you never quite got to. A lot of those glasses also come with various claims about how effective they are…
Why Pappy Van Winkle Can Cost Over $4,000 a Bottle
Pappy Van Winkle is the unicorn of bourbons. People say it’s real, but we’ve only really seen it in pictures, and most of them probably had some image doctoring going on. For all we know, it could have been a pasted on label to a bottle of iced tea. Though,…
Lava Rocks and Glacier Water: How Reyka Vodka Makes Some of the Purest Vodka in the World
Reyka Vodka has garnered a reputation as being one of the purest vodkas in the world. Of course, that’s quite a distinction; one some more discernible boozehounds might find suspect. We traveled with the Reyka team to their distillery, located roughly an hour north of Reykjavík in the beautiful rural…
8 Cask Strength Whiskies to Keep You Warm This Winter
Call it cask strength, barrel proof or overproof, there's always a case to be made for a good, high proof whiskey. It gives you the opportunity to taste the spirit as if it had just come out of the barrel, because it pretty much did. Whether you're curling up in front…
The Turbulent History of Rye Whiskey: The Real American Spirit
For brewing and distilling, these are days of revival. Brewing was a macro-lager mess up until a few years ago, when craft brewing exploded, giving us roughly ten million choices in even the smallest liquor stores. Craft distilling is seeing a similar revitalization. Where we once had only a few…
The 10 Best Whiskey Bars in America
Whiskey. The nectar of the gods. Seldom a word in the English language exists that gets our blood pumping as much as that sweet, sweet word. Whiskey. And when you hang it on a door outside a brick building, or on the flier to a party invitation, or even on…
Meet the Men of American Whiskey
These are the men behind the famous names on the labels. The iconic whiskey characters that helped make the spirits industry what it is today. These pioneers forged the path of whiskey in America. A path paved with corn and grains, distilled and matured in oak barrels. Most of them…
