I’ve been on a bit of a rye kick lately and realized that we didn’t have much in our collection, so we picked up a couple of things I’ve been wanting to try and instead of reviewing them one-by-one, I thought it might be fun to do a blind tasting since watching Kate do her bottom shelf […]
Read more "Blind Rye Showdown"Updated 12/27/2015: Tasting notes from 12/20/15 and 12/27/15 are below. We revisited Festivus a week after the original review and holy crap is this beer already developing into the delightful treat we remembered from last year. Ah the holidays, time for spending too much money, over eating, and drinking lots of things filled with spices […]
Read more "Review: Anthem Festivus"The internet is fun, and there are fun things on it. Some of those things happen to be groups of people that love the same thing you do, like whiskey and craft beer. It was in one of those groups where we scored some tickets to the Prairie Artisan Ales Gnome Dome, a small collection of […]
Read more "The Prairie Gnome Dome and Review of Coffee Okie"While I’m well aware that marketing (especially in the Bourbon industry) is generally just a bunch of bullshitty fluff, I’m also quick to admit that I love a good story. The following is the story of Wild Turkey’s Master Keep which piqued my interests and got me all excited to drink some. “The story of Master’s […]
Read more "Review: Wild Turkey Master’s Keep"If you read other reviews I write, you know that I generally nerd out on history stuff and want to talk about the business details of some of these distilleries that I love, but its kind of late as I’m writing this, I’m kind of tired, and I honestly just want to drink this whiskey […]
Read more "Review: Willett 2 Year Rye"If you nerd out on the history of American Whiskey, you see the names Beam and Dant all over the damn place. The history of Yellowstone is riddled of those names as well, and involves multiple relatives, sales, and more relatives. To save you from a bunch of me doing a shitty job of explaining all […]
Read more "Review: Yellowstone Limited Edition 2015"Breaker Bourbon has been on my radar for a while. NDPs can be pretty frustrating with their sneaky marketing shit, and while Breaker is certainly no exception, for some reason I’ve been intrigued by their schtick. So when I saw a bottle during a recent trip I figured it was time I try it. Before […]
Read more "Review: Breaker Bourbon"The extra-aged Elijah Craig expressions have been popping up all over the shelves around here, and being the Elijah Craig 12 fan that I am, I’ve been impulsing buying them as soon as they are available. I rocked the 23-year-old Elijah about a month ago, and now it’s time for the 18. Before I could crack […]
Read more "Review: Elijah Craig 18 Single Barrel"One of the best things about this whole Barrels and Mash gig is getting to talk to people that are completely passionate about what they do. It’s something I’ve seen in every single person I’ve talked to that is involved in a brewery or distillery, and that just isn’t the case for a lot of the other industries out […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Hangout: Black Mesa Brewing Company"Los Naranjos Coffee Stout is the 3rd collaboration between Black Mesa Brewing and Elemental Coffee Roasters of Downtown OKC. For the past few years I’ve basically lived off of Elemental’s Purusha, so sign me up when a local brewery teams up with them for an adjunct. Black Mesa was nice enough to invite us to the launch […]
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