My wife and I first discovered Caribou Coffee on a recent trip to our local K-Cup distributor. Neither of us had ever heard of the brand or that they were in fact a chain of coffee shops. Regardless, we picked up a bunch of different flavors and quickly made them a regular staple [...]

Up until four years ago, I never drank coffee and couldn’t have cared less. While I had tried it in my teenage years, I was turned off and had zero interest. Like wine, my initial interest in coffee was stirred by my wife’s fascination/fixation on good coffee. Another factor was my moving to [...]

On a recent family vacation to picturesque North Conway, NH, I stopped in to a local liquor store and set about finding a reasonably priced single malt to enjoy in the clean mountain air of northern New Hampshire. While perusing their rather limited selection, I came across a rather distinctive tube titled “Glennfiddich Solera [...]

The Rocky Patel Decade is a special 10th anniversary release from Rocky and the torpedo earned a 95 rating from Cigar Afficionado. Rocky himself brought a whole bunch of these cigars to give away at the Aleppo Smoker I attended back in March and I forced myself to leave it alone for a while. [...]

Back in the spring, I attended the Aleppo Shriner’s Smoker in Wilmington, MA and a couple of guys from El Tiante Cigars were there giving away churchills in both the natural and maduro varieties. Started by Red Sox legend Luis Tiant, the cigars feature an image of the legendary pitcher in his signature windup [...]