Scotland is home to over 150 distilleries. You’ve heard the big names: The Macallan, Glenfiddich, Laphroaig—all of which make great whisky. But Esquire’s resident liquor expert, Jonah Flicker, has the inside scoop on the best Scotch you might not have heard of. What’s his favorite, best-kept-secret distillery? Find out at the link below. —Chris Hatler, deputy editor
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Pleasantly smoky. Elegantly sweet. I flew across the pond to find out how this remote Scottish distillery makes the perfect pour.
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Scotch isn’t just about big wafts of smoke that assault your senses, though the style is well represented by distilleries like Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg. There are also spicy, sherry-forward classics like the Macallan, the Glendronach, and the Dalmore. However, there is a rarefied, lesser-known group of distilleries that expertly balance acridity and sweetness. And the very best of these comes from a region many whisky drinkers don’t even know exists.
Established in 1798, Highland Park Distillery is located on Orkney, an archipelago that’s about as far north as you can go in Scotland. Sheep outnumber residents by about seven to one, and the weather is generally cold and rainy. The islands are dotted with Stonehenge-like rock formations and subterranean villages that have emerged from the ground over the years, clues as to what the Vikings were up to centuries ago aside from pillaging. Also below the ground is peat. The ancient organic matter is excavated in large blocks that look like chocolate layer cake but taste nothing like it—trust me. Highland Park, like many distilleries, burns peat to dry its malted barley, the main ingredient in single malt Scotch, thereby imparting smokiness.
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Sometimes you’ve just gotta suit up. Whether it’s a wedding, a funeral, or a job interview, life’s major moments don’t stop coming just because it’s hot. But wearing the wrong suit in the summertime is unpleasant enough that it can make you forget your sartorial manners.
Instead of underdressing for the occasion—or sweating your way through it—you simply need to score the right suit. The warmer months are no time for fabrics like flannel and tweed. Ditto that for heavyweight blends and lofty materials that trap heat close to the body. Linings aren’t strictly verboten, but skipping them is one way to up the breeziness of any type of tailored clothing. It’s all about choosing the right materials to keep you feeling—and looking—cool.
Here we’ll walk you through the three suits that every guy needs in his summer wardrobe.
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It’s kind of fitting that Tony Hale’s acting career started with a painfully awkward encounter.
It was in the mid-’90s, and he’d just landed his first agent. “She was like, ‘You look like David Schwimmer,’” Hale recalls, which seemed promising since Friends was at that time one of the biggest hits on TV. But the agent wasn’t finished there. “She was this old New York broad and she was like, ‘Yeah, you look like David Schwimmer—but not as cute, not as good looking,’” Hale continues. “ And I was like, ‘...ahh, right.’”
As the feeble, accident-prone Buster Bluth on Arrested Development and the perpetually browbeaten body-man Gary on Veep, Hale has made his name as the embodiment of the cringeworthy, mortified and chagrined. Now the 55-year-old returns as Forky in Toy Story 5, bringing back the spork-turned-homemade-plaything who can’t stop questioning his purpose and existence. He also recently appears in Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein’s new Netflix rom-com Office Romance as a weary HR supervisor who is ready to curl up and die.
Esquire caught up with him about how it all started.
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