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Going forward until some later time reviews will be posted on an ad-hoc basis. This is partly due to restrictions with Covid-19 but also other reasons. Stay tuned to our RSS feed/Twitter/Email postings to keep appraised of when a review goes up. Thanks all.

This year sucked. For various reasons we stopped reviews back in March, and you can take your pick of not going out, harder to justify financially purchases of random stuff, the moral implications of promoting drinking at this time when it’s likely becoming a problem for folks or just overall lack of motivation.

Reviews will resume starting in the new year. The schedule will not be the same. At least until we hit vaccination threshold reviews will be as follows.

• Monday – Spirits, but whiskey is now merged back, don’t worry we’ll make sure to not have a streak.
• Thursday – Beer review (only 1 a week instead of 2)
• Last Sunday of the Month – Wine – sorry but there’s clearly no wine tasting so it comes down to bottles.

Cheers Y’all, have a Happy Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Candlenights, and more.

In short reviews for the next couple of months will be delayed due to social distancing equating to less buying/going out in general. We will backfill, but expect it to take some time.

From Olive and those of us at the Buffalo Lounge – Happy Holidays to all.

As a heads up November’s reviews will be delayed due to some much needed holiday time, and a push to get an updated statistics in prep for our soon to be annual year-end review and our awards.

There will be an influx of content on Dec 23rd.

We’re really looking forward to getting everyone a trio of awards for both Beer, Wine, and Spirits as well as reviving an old segment of building the best bar possible for just $100.

Some friends of ours recently started a podcast, and our own Editor-In-Chief did a guest spot on their fourth episode. Whiskeypedia is a podcast about drinking and enjoying whiskey while clicking a random article on Wikipedia and using only links see how far you can go before the whiskey kicks in. We started our episode with an actual mutiny in Space! only to end with my new favorite Twitter account, a South African cannon that always fires at noon.

Listen to it here: https://www.whiskeypediapodcast.com/podcast/the-whiskeypedia-podcast-episode-4-sleepypedia/

Greetings folks, just a few quick housekeeping things.

The updates started in October are now complete. The new Statistics Page is live, and will now be updated as reviews are released. Second if you’ve not noticed there’s a new coat of paint on the site’s design making it more mobile-friendly, nicer to look at, and more useful. Finally the change in Spirits to the Honesty metric is live on all reviews.

There’s been some other tweaks and changes around the site, and some new social stuff is live. We’ve also set up a few donation avenues for you to use. We keep this site ad-free because we know ads can suck, and also the ads that would be here would be targeted and seem like endorsements, and that’s not cool. We also don’t have a major sponsoring deal or setup that gives us product so your donation literally goes to server costs or being able to review high-priced items. Check the Social Links for more.

Finally because of all the site updates, some time in the upcoming weeks from now (on Tuesday’s) we’ll be dropping some updated guides for you all including.

• 2017 HBR Rewards – The best spirits of the last 7 years
• How to Stock a Bar under $100 in 2018 – What to get for Mixers/Spirits for the best value.
• The Bermondsey Beer Mile – Our review of this London institution
• The Oban Distillery – Includes multiple reviews of hard-to-get spirits from the town itself.

Greetings folks, and to those who find us via Google or follow along weekly – just a bit of an update. There will be no posts (Spirit/Beer/Wine) for the month of October. We’ll be taking a break to make serious headway on three upgrades to the site itself detailed below.

1. An updated look – you may noticed our temporary look due to some overall backend updates, but we’ll be doing a few things in regards to styling, some page changes, changes to the cocktail page, an updated contact and FAQ page, and more. This includes
2. The Stats Page – as you see in our posts we mention a stats page, but if honest it’s not been updated in years since we moved and expanded, and it doesn’t include beer or wine. We’ll be updating that into something that’s actually useful. This is the main reason for the time off as even doing this semi-automatically from database scripts will take time to clean and process the data. Once it’s up though it’ll be much easier to keep regular updates on it.
3. Finally we are changing (may have seen last week) Manliness to Honesty. No before a bunch of ‘oh PC culture is ruining everything’ folks get up in arms – kindly sit down and shut up you cunts. When we started this endeavor we weren’t even called Honest Booze Reviews (back on the Nerdfit site) but we needed a term. Something that captured the text on the bottle, the look, how it made you feel, whether it was classy, or rugged, but mainly true to itself. It was the X-Factor, but we couldn’t think of a good word to catch all of that so we went with a broad term of manliness (being mostly male reviewers) and that was that. Recently though our head writer had a conversation with someone (at a bar) describing the site, and that category, and the person said ‘Well if you’re Honest Booze Reviews, why not make it Honesty and review that?’ After discussing with the others the lightbulb of an idea caught fire, and now it’d be dishonest to not change it – because quite frankly it’s not because it’s ‘PC’. It’s just better. And if you don’t like it? Fuck off. We’ll be going through the backlog and updating, and aside from direct reference to the metric name the text and scores will remain the same.

Now we’ll be back to regular updates for November and December (as it’s the holiday’s and our busiest site traffic months). So see you all then.