President of Krebs Brewing discusses purchase of Prairie Artisan Ales and moving the brand forward

Zack Prichard, President of Krebs Brewing Co. (and Prairie Artisan Ales), posted on the Prairie blog yesterday and recounted his first interactions with Chase Healey and Prairie beers. In his walk down memory lane he discusses the first time he met Chase about contracting at Krebs, brewing and bottling the first Prairie Ale, and all the […]

Barrels and Mash Presents: The 2016 Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival Awards

Another Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival has come and gone, and it was a damn fun one! Since this is the first year of OCBF that Barrels and Mash has been a thing, we were trying to figure out how we should mark the occasion as the 3 of us were walking around drinking things all […]

OKC Craft Beer Week is upon us

Holy crap are you excited!? OKC Craft Beer Week kicks off Sunday, June 12th, and will culminate with the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival the following weekend. Oak & Ore is doing this thing right and will be hosting fun local beer events pretty much every day next week. Below is their schedule for the week and […]

There’s a bangin’ new Bourbon bar in OKC

Oklahoma City is a freaking crazy place right now. We’ve got bridges falling down, we can’t afford to pay school teachers, but hot damn we are getting some fun new places to eat and drink. Every month it seems like we’ve got a new, super hip restaurant opening up which is great because eating things is […]

For the Love of Booze: The History of Barrels and Mash

Today is the anniversary of the first post here on Barrels and Mash, so I thought it would be nice to celebrate it by revisiting the history of why our little project here got started. Given that I love to ramble, this probably won’t be a short and sweet version of it either, so grab a nice […]

Review: Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Release #11

A year ago today on May 22nd, 2015, I walked into my back yard with my brand new bottle of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Release #8 and my digital camera and took the pictures for the very first review here on Barrels and Mash. Now here we are, exactly one year later, and as I […]

Review: Roughtail Adaptation IPA (Batch #4, May 2016)

Rejoice, it’s time for a new version of Roughtail’s rotating Adaptation IPA series! Batch 4 was canned just a couple of days ago on May 17th and is another East Coast IPA. This time, however, it’s an East Coast IPA hopped with pure Southern Hemisphere hops which comes at a time where we are all […]

Review: Elk Valley Pale Ale

There aren’t many beers that I buy over and over again just to make sure I always have some in the fridge…actually, to be exact, there’s currently only one: Elk Valley’s Pale Ale. I’ve been a huge fan of this brew for a while now, and I just realized that I’ve never given it a […]

Review: Blood Oath Pact No. 2

Before we get into what this whiskey is, let’s go ahead and start with the packaging on this bad boy. This stuff arrived in a cool box with slidey things and a door, and when you open it, the bottle is super classy with script writing and a little wax stamp. I wish we still […]

Review: High West 14 Year Light Whiskey

Well this’ll be a couple of firsts for us here at Barrels and Mash. Not only is it the first official High West review, it’s also the first “Light Whiskey” review we’ve done. Hooray for new things! Light Whiskey became a thing in the late 60’s and early 70’s as a way for American whiskey producers […]

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