The Dalmore Distillery was established in 1839 by a man named Alexander Matheson and is located in Alness, Scotland. Unfortunately, their web site is currently going through an update and their Wikipedia page is a little short on details. The distillery is located in northern Scotland and thus the moniker “Single Highland Malt”. [...]

The official motto of the state of New Hampshire is “Live Free or Die” and while I’ve heard many jokes and jabs directed at the seriousness of that motto I’m relieved to see that it hasn’t been forgotten by the men and women in the legislature. On March 5th, the house passed an amendment [...]

Every year the Aleppo Shriners host a cigar night at their temple in Wilmington, MA. Like all Shriner events, all of the proceeds from the event go to charity like the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. This past Friday, I was finally able to attend one of these cigar nights and after the time [...]

My first La Aroma de Cuba was given to me by a coworker nearly a year ago and since that day, I’ve smoke quite a few more. As soon as I came up with the idea to launch Oak and Smoke, I was determined to make the La Aroma de Cuba my first official [...]

This past Christmas, my wonderful wife bought me a bottle of Balvenie DoubleWood. DoubleWood is a 12 year old single malt Scotch whisky that is matured in two distinct casks throughout the life of its maturation process. It starts its journey from malt to whisky in a traditional American oak bourbon whisky cask [...]