Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's Podcast

This week on Barrel to Bottle, we're sitting down with retiring wine consultant Gregory Fulham. Gregory has been with Binny's for the better part of the last four decades. In that time, he's become both a Binny's institution and a Hyde Park institution. In celebration of his retirement, we're opening wines from two of his favorite varieties: Riesling and Port. Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese 2019 – This one is still a baby, but it's drinking great. You could also sit on it for years. Taylor Fladgate 30-Year-Old Tawny Port – We took the years Gregory has worked for Binny's and rounded up a bit and decided on this 30- year port. Both Riesling and Port are incredible values, relatively speaking. What would you pay for a 30-year-old Scotch? Gregory's other recommendations include: Xoriguer Gin de Mahon Clark & Sheffield Bottled in Bond Bourbon Koval Cranberry Gin Liqueur Quinta da Fonte Souto Branco 2020 d'Arenberg Viogneir Marsanne The Hermit Crab 2021 Nolet Gin If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

This is a Chris episode, which means it's esoteric but fun and someone will probably get well actually'd. What's more esoteric than port cocktails? It's probably not as far-fetched as you think though. We cracked open a bottle of Clark & Sheffield 10-Year-Old Tawny Port for these cocktails that range from simple to complicated and would be perfect for Elevenses, brunch or even a night cap. Check out all the cocktail recipes on our blog. The Q&A portion of Barrel to Bottle is back this week! Today's question comes from Michael, who wants to know everyone's favorite method to transport cans and bottles. He really just wanted to show off a picture of his Hamm's Sack, for storing Hamm's. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Because Pat is Pat, we had to turn What Does That Taste Like vol. 3 into a two-parter. For part two, Pat has brought a wide range of spirits from all over the world. What the hell do these taste like? Find out! Honkaku Reserve Special Selection Amagi 9-Year-Old Rum Single Cask #3094 Binny's Handpicked Honkaku Reserve Special Selection Amagi 9-Year-Old Rum Single Cask #3097 Binny's Handpicked Nevada Distilling Smoke Wagon Straight Rye Bottled in Bond Nevada Distilling Smoke Wagon Malted Straight Rye Alpine Distilling Lafayette Spicy Bourbon Vice Rei Ginjinha Select Aperitivo Opal Icelandic Liqueur Elixir Spirits Ver Liquore d'Erb Boomsma Claerkampster Cloosterbitter Laphroaig 8-Year-Old ex PX Sherry Hogshead #807494 Binny's Handpicked If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

It's time once again to answer the world's oldest question, "What the Hell Does That Taste Like?" Have you ever seen a bottle of some wine, beer or spirit at Binny's and wondered what it is? This is the episode for you. And because Pat can't help himself, this ended up being a two parter. Roger's Beers: Weihenstephaner Vitus WarPigs Divine Huntress Weihenstephaner Korbinian Maplewood Silver Morning Winter Lager Chris' Wines: Pardevalles Albarin 2021 Zlatan Otok Pošip 2021 Pilizota Winery Babić 2016 Stone Hill Norton Terrassous Hors d'Age 12 Ans Rivesaltes ­ That's it for beer and wine. Join us next week for part two, What the Hell Does That Taste Like? Spirits. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Elliot Hughes of is the managing distillery director for Dingle Distillery. What started as a bar outside of Dublin has become a distillery in Dingle, in the southwest corner of Ireland. Dingle is far-flung, but it's also a popular tourist destination with mild weather perfect for aging whiskey. Dingle's yearly releases pay homage to the town's connection to Celtic pagan traditions, which include various festivals, equinoxes and solstices. This week on Barrel to Bottle we sampled: Dingle Distillery Samhain Single Malt Dingle Distillery Lá Le Bríde Single Malt Dingle Distillery Bealtaine Single Malt Dingle Distillery Single Malt Dingle Distillery Original Irish Pot Still Gin Dingle Distillery Vodka If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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 last time we took on a major celebrity and their absurd cocktail, it was Stanley Tucci's shaken Negroni with vodka. Things didn't so great for The Tooch, but will America's Dad fare better? Earlier this year, Jim sent the group an article about Tom Hanks appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Hanks is not a big drinker, but he will add a splash of champagne to his Diet Coke. And that's how an episode topic is born. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Whenever Pat brings bottles in for an episode, you can safely assume he's going to bring way more than we can ever get to. After tasting through the Whisky Advocate Top 20 of 2022, Pat pulled out two mystery bottles; something he would have added to the list, and something he's not quite sure what it is but it has a memorable taste.

Once again, we're running down the list of Whisky Advocate's top 20 whiskies of the year and sampling the ones we have available. What was once a list of unobatnium bottles has now expanded with more readily available products and better price points. #20 – Craigellachie 13-Year-Old Armagnac Finish #19 – Teeling Single Pot Still Virgin Chinkapin Oak Wonders of Wood #18 – Hardin's Creek Colonel James B. Beam 2 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Limited Release #17 – Indri Trini The Three Wood #11 – Sweetens Cove Kennessee Kentucky & Tennessee Bourbon Finished with Toasted Sugar Maple Wood #10 – Nelson Brothers Bourbon Reserve #8 – Limavady Single Malt Irish Whiskey #5 – Westward Cask Strength American Single Malt Whiskey #4 – Dewars 12 Year Double Aged Scotch #3 – Barrell Bourbon Vantage Finished in Mizunara, French, and Virgin Oak Barrels #1 – Jack Daniel's Bonded If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

This is probably our most ambitious episode ever. We'll be eating well-known New Orleans dishes, along with Abita beer, and then making New Orleans cocktails and pairing them with paczkis. We apologize in advance for all the mouth noises. Abita is the classic New Orleans beer and a lot of their offerings pair great with local cuisine. Mardi Gras Bock is a more of a Maibock than a doppelbock, which makes it a clean, easy-drinking beer. It pairs perfectly with the shrimp étoufée, red beans & rice and jambalaya. Check out the full recipes on our blog: Vieux Carré w/Custard Paczki topped with Chocolate Fudge Pimm's Cup w/Rose Petal Jelly Paczki or Strawberry & Whipped Cream Paczki Hurricane w/Passionfruit Jelly Paczki Sazerac w/Plum Butter Paczki Ramos Gin Fizz w/Apricot Preserves Paczki In addition to all that, Pat brought Cheramie Rum. Made in New Orleans from fresh-pressed cane juice. It's a bit like an Agricole rum but not as funky. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

As the premiere producer in the Rhone, you would assume Guigal has been around for centuries. Guigal is in their third generation, which is relatively young for the Rhone and France overall. Joining us today is Patrick Will, brand development director at Vintus, importer of Guigal. He has worked with the Guigal family for 26 years. featuring these wines: Guigal Cotes du Rhone White 2021 Guigal Cotes du Rhone Red 2018 Guigal Condrieu 2019 Guigal Crozes Hermitage 2019 Guigal Saint Joseph Guigal Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2017 Guigal Cote Rotie Brune et Blonde 2018 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

This week we welcome Rob Dietrich, master distiller of Blackened Whiskey. If you're not familiar, Blackened started as a collaboration between Metallica and distilling legend Dave Pickerell. Drink along at home with the following whiskies: Blackened Straight Whiskey Finished in Black Brandy Casks Blackened x Wes Henderson Bourbon Finished in White Port Casks Blackened Rye the Lightning If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

We're back with part 2 of our Barrel to Bottle Q&A episode. Check out part 1 on our blog or wherever you download podcasts. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

We used to tackle listener questions on a regular basis, but over the years the episodes kept getting longer and longer. We miss the listener interaction, and we miss giving away $20 Binny's gift cards, so periodically we do these all Q&A episodes. It's time for us to A your Qs. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

We haven't done a Non-Alc episode in two years, and a lot has changed in that time. The entire category has exploded; not only are there more options than ever, but the options are better than they've ever been. This week, Roger, Alicia, and Pat have brought the newest and best options for Dry January and beyond in beer, wine, and spirits. Roger's NA Beer/Seltzer Options: Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher Variety Noon Whistle Hop Water Big Drop Paradiso Non-Alocholic IPA Big Drop Galactic Extra Dark Non-Alcoholic AleSmith NA IPA Alicia's NA Wine Options: Freixenet 0.0 NA Sparkling Wine Giesen Brothers Zero Rose Non-Alcohol Wine Giesen Brothers Zero Riesling Non-Alcohol Wine Fre Cabernet Sauvignon Pat's NA Spirits: Lyre's Dry London Spirit Martini & Rossi Vibrante Aperitivo Spiritless Kentucky 74 Bourbon Distilled Non-Alcoholic Spirit for Bourbon Cocktails Spiritless Whiskey Sour & Spiritless Old Fashioned If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Coffee: the original beer adjunct before that became a dirty word. We only just did a coffee episode in late 2022 but there are so many coffee stouts being released, especially in the winter months, that it makes sense to do another one. This time in addition to drinking coffee beer, and the coffee these beers are made with, Roger has baked several cookies that pair great with the beer and the coffee. Half Acre Big Hugs Lagunitas Willettized Coffee Stout Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout Dogfish Head Wake Up World Wide Stout If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

And now for the epic conclusion of Barrel to Bottle's Picks of the Year 2022. Alicia's PickChateau Beychevelle Saint Julien 2018 Pat's One and Only PickPinhook Vertical Series Bourbon War 7-Year-Old Bourbon 2022 Jim's Second Pick Destihl Wild Sour Series Elima Hua Greg's Second Pick Field Recordings Aqua Pazza Organic Pink Sparkling Jenna's Third Pick André Cluet Brut Grand Reserve Pat's One and Only PickBordiga St. Hubertis Amaro Reserva Honorable Mentions AleSmith Barrel Aged Vietnamese Speedway Stout Art History Bella Strada Classic Breweries (especially European ones) finally canning their beers Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Two-Year Barleywine Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Biscotti Domaine Drouhin Pinot Noir Cuvee Laurene 2018 Hofgut Falkenstein Kabinett Krettnacher Euchariusberg Riesling Kabinett Keeper's Heart St. Agrestis Amari

It's time for the Barrel to Bottle Pick(s) of the Year. For the first time ever, we have seven people on mics, so it should be obvious why we had to split this into two episodes. Pat's One and Only PickPenrose Fantasy West collaboration with More Brewing Jenna's First PickMichter's US 1 Single Barrel Straight Rye Jim's First PickOff Color Beer for Lounging Pat's One and Only PickBenromach 9-Year-Old First Fill Sherry Hogshead #719 Binny's Handpicked/Benromach 11-Year-Old First Fill Bourbon Barrel #595 Binny's Handpicked Greg's First PickSurly Abrasive Chris' First PickTrimbach Riesling Cuvee Frederic Emile 2011 Roger's First PickBoulevard Barrel Aged Wheat Wine collaboration with Firestone Walker Pat's One and Only PickSignatory Glenlivet 15-Year-Old First Fill Sherry Butt #900788 Binny's Handpicked Jenna's Second PickGoose Island Neon Beer Hug If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

It's time to check back in on Chris and Pat's respective aged eggnogs. We last checked in on these over a year ago, but how are they now? Will the Barrel to Bottle Crew survive or is this the last episode?

We're back with part two of our yearly Binny's Buyer's Picks episode. Bill, Wine Buyer:Alion, 2018 Clark & Sheffield 10 Year Old Tawny Port ­ Mike Baba, Wine BuyerCliff Lede Claret 2019 Mark Senal, Wine BuyerInspiration 1818 Brut by Billecart Kyle, Beer Buyer Goldfinger Brewery If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

It's December, which means we're once again talking with Binny's category buyers about what they were most impressed with this year. These people taste everything, so this is the best of the best for 2022. Jeff, Spirits Buyer:Bardstown Bourbon Company Collaborative Series Goose Island BCBS Barrel Finished Bourbon Douglas, Beer Buyer: Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout 2022 Barbara, Wine Director: La Croix Ducru Beaucaillou Saint Julien 2019 Jack, Cigar Buyer:Oliva Serie V 135th Anniversary Brett, Specialty Spirits Buyer: Porchjam Distilling Cheramie Rum If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

There are a lot of guidelines and rules around drinking wine that may or may not apply anymore and Lincoln Park wine manager Ben is here to smash them. Or confirm them. Shatter some myths with the following wines: Crossbarn by Paul Hobbs 2019 Stadt Krems Gruner Veltliner Kremstal 2021 Vietti Barbera d'Asti Tre Vigne 2020 Chateau Peyrabon Haut Medoc 2009 Laurent-Perrier Harmony If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Brian Nation (formerly of Midleton) and David Perkins (formerly of High West) are two heavy hitters in the spirits industry. So, Pat was quite shocked when he heard that an upstart distillery in Minnesota had hired both of them, he had to check them out. That lead him to Keeper's Heart, where they're making Irishized American Whiskey and Americanized Irish Whiskey. Right now, Keeper's Heart is sourcing bourbon and rye from MGP in Indiana. Since last year they've also been laying down their own distillate. The first thing they've produced is an American Single Pot Still. Drink along at home with the following whiskies: Keeper's Heart Irish + American Blended Whiskey Keeper's Heart Irish + Bourbon Blended Whiskey Keeper's Heart Irish + American 110 Proof Keeper's Heart 10 Year Single Malt If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

What are you drinking for Thanksgiving? We've got recommendations for spirits before, during and after dinner, beers that pair with a wide range of dishes and wines to pair with specific types of guests at your dinner table. Check out Pat's Thanksgiving Picks: Huber's Starlight Distillery Bourbon Finished in Armagnac Barrel #21-2315 Binny's Handpicked Huber's Starlight Distillery Bourbon Finished in PX Sherry Barrique #22-2060 Binny's Handpicked Riaz Oaxaca Cuishe Mezcal Koval Cranberry Gin Liqueur Amaro Montenegro Cappelletti Amaro Alta Verde Check out Roger's Thanksgiving Picks: Allagash Tripel Allagash Curieux Schilling Excelsior Imperial Apple North Coast Old Stock Ale Check out Chris and Alicia's Thanksgiving Picks: Caruso e Minini Inzolia 2021 Anthill Farms Pinot Noir North Coast Ridge Geyersville 2020 Domaine Drouhin Pinot Noir Cuvee Laurene 2019 Dr H Thansich Bernkasteler Graben Riesling Spatlese 2019 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Coffee. It's probably one of the most popular adjuncts in craft beer. Most of the coffee Roger drinks is through beer because he's a tea guy. But he assembled some coffee guys for today's episode. Then he picked some great coffee beers and also sourced the coffee used in the beers so we could try it all side-by-side. Drink along at home with the following beers: AleSmith Speedway Stout AleSmith Barrel Aged Vietnamese Speedway Stout Founders KBS Founders Maple Mackinac Fudge KBS Revolution Brewing Café Deth This week's listener question comes from Bill, who loves the show. This is more of a comment than a question, but he wants to know why Abita changed the Turbodog label from the adorable puppy to the generic-looking black and yellow label. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Marsha Milam is one of the founders of Milam & Greene, a Texas distillery that makes their own juice, but also blends and ages sourced liquid. Marsha started the distillery after having an epiphany while on the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. She recruited world-renowned spirits expert Heather Greene to be her partner and blender. Then she brought in Marlene Holmes, formerly of Jim Beam, to be her Master Distiller. Drink along at home with the following bourbons: Milam & Greene Single Barrel Straight Bourbon Whiskey Milam & Greene Triple Cask Bourbon Milam & Greene Port Casks Finished Rye Milam & Greene Distillery Edition Straight Bourbon 2022 Milam & Greene Unabridged Bourbon Volume 1 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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 loves Scotch. Scotchy Scotch Scotch. We haven't done an episode on Handpicked Scotches in a while, so to recap the process: Brett, and sometimes Pat and Joe, travel to Scotland once or twice a year and visit as many distilleries as possible every day. If it's at an independent bottler, the entire day is spent crawling around in barrel warehouses picking casks they want to try. Binny's has carefully cultivated relationships with independent bottles going back nearly twenty years. What they taste in Scotland gets narrowed down to around 30 candidates. They sample those 30 samples again back home and then choose which casks they want to buy. Because of these relationships, Binny's gets access to some special stuff. Drink along at home with the following Handpicked Scotches: Signatory Mannochmore 11 year old Dechar/Rechar Hogshead # 7611 Binny's Handpicked 2010 Signatory Mortlach 14 year old Hogshead # 709084 Binny's Handpicked 2007 Signatory Pulteney 13 year old First Fill Bourbon Bourbon Barrel # 800114 Binny's Handpicked 2008 Signatory Craigellachie 12 year old First Fill Bourbon # 306163 Barrel Binny's Handpicked 2009 Signatory Glenlivet 15 year old First Fill Sherry Butt # 900788 Binny's Handpicked 2006 Gordon & Macphail Tamdhu 25 year old Refill Hogshead # 6496 Binny's Handpicked 1996 Signatory Whitlaw 8 year old Refill Sherry Finishing Butt # 108 Binny's Handpicked 2013 Benromach 9 year old First Fill Sherry Hogshead # 719 Binny's Handpicked 2011 Benromach 11 year old First Fill Bourbon Barrel # 595 Binny's Handpicked 2010 Signatory Staoisha (Heavily Peated Bunnahabhain) 7 year old Dechar Rechar Hogshead # 10770 Binny's Handpicked 2014 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

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 purposefully blended. Goose Island Bourbon County Two-Year Barleywine Reserve – It's hard to tell from looking at it that this is a barleywine and not a stout. Two years in the barrel have made it darker, but it tastes like a barleywine. It's aged in Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond Decanter Series barrels. Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout – Coffee is back! Greg couldn't be happier for this one, the original BCBS variant that returns after a 5-year hiatus. This was once again brewed with Intelligentsia coffee. Goose used a liquid coffee concentrate as well as whole beans from Burundi for this beer. Goose Island Bourbon County Sir Isaac's Stout – This beer is inspired to Fig Newton cookies. Figs can be sweet, sometimes too sweet. Goose's solution was to go with dried figs, specifically Black Mission. Roger loves these figs for beer pairings. The beer was circulated through 10,000 pounds of figs, then the beer sat on those figs for two weeks. After that they added graham cracker flavoring. Goose Island Bourbon County Biscotti Stout – *Italian finger pinch gesture* This one went a little heavy-handed on the anise, and there are a lot of other Italian cookies that have even more anise, such as pizzelles. The anise is balanced though, with almonds and cocoa nibs. Goose Island Bourbon County Proprietor's Stout – This beer was inspired by the Jungle Bird cocktail and features banana, coconut, lime and pineapple. Roger got hung up on the missing Campari, although he's also not sure how that would work in a beer. But wait, there's more! Two years ago, Goose released Bourbon County Kentucky Fog, which featured tea and honey. Greg was a big fan, Pat was not. We should have drank this 18 months ago, but Greg never did. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

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 Bandido Reposado Tequila – (Chris Chelios) Calirosa Tequila Añejo – (Adam Levine) Codigo Reposado – (George Strait) Don Ramon Tequila Reposado – (Pierce Brosnan) DeLeón's Reposado Tequila – (Diddy) Dos Primos Blanco Tequila – (Thomas Rhett) If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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.

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-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Pinhook Vertical Series Bourbon War 7-Year-Old Bourbon 2022 Stella Rosa Smooth Black Brandy Stella Rosa Honey Peach Brandy Stella Rosa Tropical Passion Brandy Craigellachie 13-Year-Old Armagnac Finish Mijenta Añejo Tequila St. Agrestis Paradiso Aperitivo St. Agrestis Inferno Bitter St. Agrestis Amaro If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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.

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 Amburana Cask # 6203 Binny's Handpicked Teeling Pure Pot Still Virgin American Oak Cask # 58518 Binny's Handpicked Teeling Pure Pot Still ex Sherry Cask # 67909 Binny's Handpicked Pinhook Bourbon Small Batch Binny's Handpicked Distilled at Castle & Key Jack Daniel's Single Barrel # 22-1519 Binny's Handpicked Rebel Distiller's Collection 120 Proof Wheated Bourbon Single Barrel # 7655464 Binny's Handpicked Rebel Distiller's Collection 120 Proof Wheated Bourbon Single Barrel # 7784813 Binny's Handpick Ezra Brooks Distiller's Collection Barrel Proof Single Barrel # 7851151 Binny's Handpicked Ezra Brooks Distiller's Collection Barrel Proof Single Barrel # 7849788 Binny's Handpicked Huber's Starlight Distillery Bourbon Finished in White Port Barrel # 21-2190 Binny's Handpicked Huber's Starlight Distillery Bourbon Finished in Apricot Brandy Barrel # 21-2240 Binny's Handpicked WhistlePig 18 year old Straight Rye Single Barrel Sir Oinks-A-Lot Binny's Handpicked Delord 12 year old Single Cask # 2130 Binny's Handpicked Vintage Armagnac 2009 l'Encantada Domaine du Pouy Cask # 100 Binny's Handpicked 1998 Chairman's Reserve Rum 15 year old ex Bourbon Barrel # 24012000 Binny's Handpicked 2005 Trois Rivieres 14 year old Single Cask Rhum Agricole 2005 ­ Signatory Edradour 10 year old Refill Sauternes Barrel # 127 Binny's Handpicked 2011 Compass Box Gold Standard Binny's Anniversary Selection Highland Park 11 year old Refill European Oak Sherry Butt #6249 Binny's Handpicked That brings us to the Q&A Portion of Barrel to Bottle (yes, we still do these). Listener Kim wants to know if light can damager spirits bottles. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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.

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 [email protected], 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.

Summer is the time for white wines, rosés and Beaujolais. That's right, you don't need to drink Beaujolais in late November because they're also great summer wines that you can drink chilled on a hot day. Beaujolais is technically part of Burgundy, and it's made up of three categories. Today we're focusing on the 2020 vintage. Drink along at home with the following wines: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages 2020 Jean Marc Burgaud Beaujolais Villages 2020 Janodet Les Fines Graves Moulin a Vent 2020 Julien Sunier Morgon 2020 Chateau Thivin Cote de Brouily 2020 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Lexie Phillips, assistant distiller at Jack Daniel's, stops by the Lincoln Park tasting room to sample a line-up of the famous Tennessee Whiskey with the Barrel to Bottle Crew. There's a lot of innovation coming out of Lynchburg these days, but there's still the classic Old No. 7 Drink along at home with the following: Gentleman Jack Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Select Jack Daniel's Bonded Jack Daniel's Triple Mash If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Rosés are popular, in fact they're one of our most popular items. They're often gone before you know it. Some people drink Rosés year-round, while some prefer to drink them when they weather gets warmer. Lincoln Park wine manager Gabe is back with four bottles of Rosé and a box. Drink along at home with the following Rosés Quadrum Rosé 2021 Cuvelier los Andes Rosé of Malbec 2021 Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rosé 2021 Ravines Rosé of Pinot Noir 2021 Domaines Ott Cotes de Provence Rosé 2021 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.

Cue the Meatballs theme song…are you ready for the summer? It's a Roger episode, specifically summer beers. And while it's still spring, we record this episode when it's swelteringly hot. Seasonality means almost nothing in beer now, which means we have summer beers already (and we'll have Oktoberfest beers in July). Summer beers should be-as a guest once said- "CRUSHABLE". That means they're very drinkable, which is probably why breweries love summer beers so much. After sneaking in an 8.5% hard cider during last year's Summer Beer episode, Roger understood the assignment this year. Some of these beers are seasonal offerings, while some of them are year-round beers that fit the general idea of an easy-drinking beer that you want to load into a cooler and drink very cold. Drink along at home with the following crushable summer beers: Brooklyn Summer Ale Saison Dupont Off Color Beer For Golf 21st Amendment Hell of High Watermelon Bell's Tropical Oberon Great Lakes Tropicoastal Goose Island 312 Lemonade Shandy If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at [email protected], 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.