Barrel To Bottle, The Binny's Podcast

It’s the end of October, which means it’s time to taste some Bourbon County Stout. Our friends at Goose Island were good enough to invite the Barrel to Bottle crew to their Barrel House and taste through the 2022 line-up. We took copious notes and then raced back to the Barrel to Bottle Studios to record this episode.  Goose Island Bourbon County Stout – The original always changes slightly and this year, like last, it was a mixture of Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey and Buffalo Trace barrels, but they also added Four Roses barrels to the mix. This is still the defining beer for the category, and it will be plentiful. And also, some of it will be in four packs! Goose Island Bourbon County 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout ­­– It’s the 30th anniversary of Bourbon County Stout and this one returns to where it all began. Greg Hall was talking to Booker Noe, which led to putting stout in Jim Beam Small Batch Bourbon Collection. They used a variety of Booker, Knob Creek, Basil Hayden and Baker’s barrels that were then purpo

Celebrities, they love tequila just like you! They love tequila so much in fact that they started their own brand of tequila! Sixteen to be exact, or at least that’s what we have today, in our blind tasting of 16 celebrity tequilas. Blind is best, that’s what the Whiskey Hotline always says. It’s the only honest way to taste anything, so leave your preconceived notions at the door! As the Barrel to Bottle crew tastes along at home, blind, Future Pat will tell you the listener which tequila we are sampling. Drink along at home with the following celebrity tequilas: Jaja Reposado - (F**k Jerry and The Chainsmokers) Gran Coramino Reposado Cristalino Tequila – (Kevin Hart) Lobos 1707 Reposado – (LeBron James) 818 Blanco – (Kendall Jenner) Teremana Reposado Tequila – (The People’s Champ) Flecha Azul Añejo – (Mark Wahlberg) Casamigos Reposado Tequila – (Cloon Dog) Santo Fino Blanco Tequila – (The Mayor of Flavortown) La Gritona Reposado – (Andy Coronado) Cincoro Anejo Tequila – (Michael Jordan etc…) El

We’ve done new wines and new spirits, so obviously we’re following the rule of threes and doing an episode on new beers (and ciders). This category is very different though. New beers and ciders come and go so quickly. In craft beer, it’s “sure this is great but what have you got that’s new?” There’s constant turnover as more and more breweries have abandoned the concept of year-round and seasonal flagships. But Roger was undeterred and found six beers and two ciders that should be sticking around all year or will be brewed again next year as a seasonal. Drink along at home with the following beers and ciders: 3 Floyd’s High Speed Steel Off Color Brewing Beer for the Top Shelf  Founders Ultimate Oktoberfest  Revolution Caramel Crisp collaboration with Garrett Popcorn   Goose Island Blackhawks Pale Ale  Lagunitas Stereohopic vol. 6  Schilling Excelsior Mango Supernova  Misbeehavin’ Caramel Apple Cider  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out

Once again, Pat was asked at the last minute to assemble a spirits podcast on a Friday afternoon. And once again, he assembled enough bottles for four podcast episodes. Last week, we covered wines that are new to stores but might have fallen through the cracks because of the sheer volume of product we receive. The spirits category is no different; we see thousands of new products every year from Irish Whiskey, Tequila, Mezcal, Bourbon…the list goes on. We’re going to set the timer for 50 minutes and see how much we can try this week. Drink along at home with the following spirits: Keeper's Heart Irish & Bourbon Blended Whiskey Keeper’s Heart Irish Single Malt Whiskey Grey Coast Irish Whiskey  Drumshanbo Sausage Tree Vodka  Tres Generaciones la Colonial Batch Reposado  Fosforo Tobalá Mezcal Fosforo Tobalá Penca Mezcal  Raíz Oaxaca Espadín Mezcal Raíz Oaxaca Ensamble Espadín + Tobalá Mezcal Raíz Oaxaca Cuishe Mezcal Raíz Oaxaca Tepeztate Mezcal  Whistlepig Smokestock Whiskey  Calumet Farm 16-Ye

Binny’s has a lot of wine. A LOT. This year, we’re on pace to add over 4,000 new wines.  That means you could come into Binny’s every day for a year, buy a mixed case, and not taste the same wine twice. There’s no way around it though, some of this stuff is going to fly under the radar. We can’t talk about all of it, so this week Chris put together a tasting of 9 wines that are worth checking out. Drink along at home with the following wines: Pierre Boniface Les Rocailles Apremont 2021  Produttori di Manduria Zin Fiano 2021  Domaine du Closel Savennieres Papillon 2019 Hofgut Falkenstein Niedermenniger Sonnenberg Riesling Kabinett Troken AP 9 2021  Bass Phillip Bin 17k Pinot Noir 2019  Jeff Cellars Petite Sirah Sweetwater Springs Vineyard 2018  K Vitners The Deal Syrah Sundance Vineyard 2019  Scacciadiavoli Sagrantino di Montefalco Passito 2017  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your

Most of the time when a Binny’s Handpicked Single Barrel comes in, it’s gone within a few weeks.  Sometimes even quicker. The good news is the Whiskey Hotline picks hundreds of barrels every year, and because of there are a lot of hidden gems that get lost in the shuffle. Pat brought Joe, and a box of hidden Irish Whiskey, Bourbon, Rye, Armagnac, Rum and Scotch gems. The Binny’s name goes on these bottles because the Whiskey Hotline is excited about them. They turn down barrels all the time if they don’t meet their standards. And contrary to internet chatter, the Whiskey Hotline samples everything before buying a barrel, they don’t just let a Master Distiller picks a cask and then slaps a Binny’s logo on it. Sometimes there are so many Handpicked bottles in stores that it can become overwhelming, and they slip out of consciousness. Check your local Binny’s for all these hidden gems: Kilbeggan 16 year old Single Grain Select Batch # K05/218 Binny's Handpicked  Teeling 15 year old Single Malt Finished in Amb

TIYL. If you’re stuck in a rut with your wine purchases, but are looking to get adventurous, this is the episode for you. Today we’ll be tasting well-known wines or wines from well-known regions; if you like those wines, we can recommend something to elevate your wine game and move your palate into new and exciting things. If you like these wines try these wines: Foxglove Chardonnay 2018 Pieropan Soave Classico 2021 A to Z Pinot Noir 2020 Graci Etna Rosso 2019 Paul Jaboulet Aine Parallele 45 Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2018 Alvaro Palacios’ Camins del Priorat 2020 Donati DVF Claret 2018 Muga 2017 Reserva If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Usually, the beer styles near and dear to Roger’s heart get no love. That’s not the case this week, as we delve into Vienna Lagers. Over the last few years, several local breweries have added Vienna Lagers to their line-ups. There are also some craft stalwarts that you might not have even realized were Vienna Lagers. If you’re a fan of Oktoberfest beers, and want them year-round, you’ll love Vienna Lagers. Viennas and Märzens were created at essentially at the same time, by a pair of friends who engaged in a little industrial espionage. Drink along at home with the following beers: Ottakringer, Brooklyn Lager Dovetail Vienna Style Lager Goldfinger Vienna Lager Pollyanna Roselle Red Great Lakes Eliot Ness Spaten’s Oktoberfest Märzen  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download

Mahalo! Here at Barrel to Bottle, we’ve been touting rum for years. This week, we’re sitting down with Bob Gunter, President and CEO of Kolo’a Rum. Hawaii’s remoteness presents challenges in sourcing equipment and ingredients. Environmental standards in Hawaii also mean using molasses for the rum is not a viable option. Drink along at home with the following rums: Koloa Kaua'i White Rum Koloa Kaua'i Coconut Rum Koloa Kaua'i Gold Rum Koloa Kaua'i Dark Rum Koloa Kaua'i Spiced Rum Koloa Kaua'i Coffee Rum Koloa Kaua'i Cacao Rum Koloa Kaua'i Reserve Single Barrel 5 Year Aged Barrel Strength Hawaiian Rum If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

The Barrel to Bottle Crew has never shied away from spicy food, so it’s kind of hard to believe it’s taken us this long to do a hot sauce episode. Jenna recently attended a hot sauce festival, which Greg was prevented from going to by his significant other, and she brought back a slew of sauces, then added some of her own, along with one from producer Jim. The plan is simple: crack open a selection of beers, wines and spirits and sample sauces from mild to hottest and attempt to find which, if any of these beverage alcohols pair with spicy, vinegary, fruity, garlicky hot sauces. Pair along at home with the following: Avery Island Rascal Roaring Table Vienna Style Lager Bell's Porter Dry Creek Chenin Blanc 2021 Banshee Pinot Noir 2019 Elio Perrone Bigaro 2021 Vamanos Riendo Mezcal Joven Sweetens Cove Kennessee Bourbon Fernet Branca Cappelletti Amaro Alta Verde Jeppson's Barrel-Aged Malört If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Tw

Chances are, if you make a pop culture reference on Barrel to Bottle, Jim will laugh at it, off mic. Tapping into his vast knowledge of useless information, Jim has crafted seven fictional cocktails from TV (and one book). From small town Indiana to medium city Pennsylvania to a bar where everybody knows your name to the deepest reaches of space, these cocktails are definitely liquid and they won't make you sick.  Before the cocktails though, a little house cleaning; the Barrel to Bottle Crew made good on their promise to try Pakistani Mangoes.  Visit the Barrel to Bottle blog for these recipes.  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Every day at Binny’s, our inboxes are flooded with beverage alcohol news. This week, we’re going to look at some of the latest word in wine in a new series we’re calling Booze in the News. This week, we'll cover two newly created American Viticultural Areas, in Oregon and California. We'll also look into the state of Napa Valley as more and more family-owned wineries sell to large corporations. Finally, there's a new trend on Tik-Tok, fresh cut jalapeõs in rosé: gross or great?  Drink along at home with the following wines: Illahe Pinot Noir 2020 Flowers Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2020 Chalk Hill Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2020 Joseph Phelps Insignia 2018 Betz Cabernet Sauvignon Pere de Famille 2017 La Vidaubanaise Rosé Le Provencal Cotes de Provence 2021 Elk Cove Pinot Noir Rosé 2021 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you lik

It’s that time again…time for the Barrel to Bottle crew and producer Jim to take a break from podcasting. Luckily, we’ve been compiling clips from episodes that ran too long, segments that felt out-of-place and montages galore! But these clips are no mere castoffs. They are artfully curated segments that let the Barrel to Bottle crew dig deeper, get more esoteric, or say “Smooj” way too many times in a ten-minute span. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Jack Summers is the founder of Jack From Brooklyn and Sorel Liqueur. He’s the first African-American man, after prohibition, to be granted a license to produce liquor in America. People have been drinking hibiscus flower tea for centuries. He's the first to bottle Sorel, a hibsicus-based liqueur.  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Ruben Aceves is the global brand ambassador for Tequila Herradura. The family sold to Brown-Forman in 2007 but before that there were seven generations working at the hacienda. Tequila Herradura has the last remaining hacienda in the tequila industry. Ruben has been in the industry for several decades now, but where does he see it going? How does Herradura expand around the world? What will happen to all of the celebrity tequila brands? If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Jack’s back! Binny’s cigar buyer Jack Spethman makes his annual visit to the Barrel to Bottle studios to talk sticks with Pat and Roger. Roger wanted to focus on golf course cigars, even though he doesn’t really golf. But it is warm out and that’s when Roger smokes cigars (and pipes). Check out this guide to some great cigars for summer, along with new accessories and a pairing with Calumet Farms 16-Year-Old Bourbon.  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Welcome to part two of Old Ales and Barleywines. In part one, we covered old ales, this week, we’re exploring the American side of these styles. Barleywine used to be huge among craft beer nerds, it was the hot beer style and was often viewed as a thank you from breweries to their hardcore fans. Drink along at home or start your own vertical with the following beers: Anchor Old Foghorn Barleywine Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Three Floyds Barrel Aged Behemoth If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Pat considers himself an adventurous guy. Drinking a bunch of old ale and barleywine when it’s 100º is not his idea of adventurous though. Luckily the studio is cold, and the fan is on so he should be quite comfortable drinking all these heavy, high alcohol beers. Roger has been planning this episode for a very long time. He has verticals, he has barrel-aged variants. He even has a beer that he had to hunt down and bring into our Willowbrook location. Chris is a barleywine aficionado, who had the foresight to age barleywines. Start cellaring your own North Coast Old Stock ale now.  If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Canned cocktails are all the rage right now, but Dogfish Head has been perfecting their own recipes for the last twenty years. In part 2 of our interview with Sam Calagione we’re sampling through some of their vodka-based cocktails. When we first started tasting cocktails at Barrel to Bottle, we asked the question “if you were served this at a bar, would you order another one?” But now that the category has exploded, we have different parameters for how to judge them. Some beers in the Dogfish line didn’t quite take off with customers, because they were a little bit too out there. And speaking of that vast portfolio, how do they balance producing old favorites with continuing to innovate? Drink along at home with the following cocktails: Dogfish Head Blueberry Shrub Vodka Soda Dogfish Head Vodka Crush Dogfish Head Gin Crush Dogfish Head Cocktails Bar Cart If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer

Roger has been working on getting Sam Calagione for an in-person podcast basically since the last time he was on, several years ago. We made the most of this in-person opportunity and ended up with a two-part podcast. In part one, the Barrel to Bottle crew samples through some of Dogfish Head's most well-known beers, and discusses innovation in craft beer.  Drink along at home with the following beers: Dogfish Head SeaQuench Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA Dogfish Head Utopias Barrel-Aged World Wide Stout If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you’ll get a $20 Binny’s Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.