Barrel To Bottle, The Binny's Podcast

Remember Espresso Martinis? They're back! It's never been easier to get great coffee, which means it's never been easier to make delicious espresso martinis, or buy some of our favorite ready-to-drink espresso martinis. Tip Top Espresso Martini Moth Drinks Espresso Martini Straightaway Cocktails Nitro Espresso Martini Check out the cocktail recipes on our blog. 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.  

Everyone has different Thanksgiving traditions, but one thing remains the same: great food and great drinks. We can't help you with ingredients, but we can help you with easy pairings for your starters, mains and deserts. This week we're recommending beers, wines and cocktails to pair with your holiday feast: Beer Unibroue La Fin du Monde Alaskan Sentinel Strong Ale Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Scotch Ale  Wine Kir Yianni Akakies Sparkling Rosé Apollo's Praise Riesling GD Vajra Barbera d'Alba Warre's Otima 20-Year-Old Tawny Visit our blog for cocktail recipes for your Thanksgiving dinner

Chartreuse can be hard to find, but there are many great alternatives. And maybe there's a replacement from the same Carthusian monks who have been making Chartreuse for centures. 

It's Stout Season, which means we once again had the chance to sit down with the team at Goose Island to try the newest Bourbon County Brand Stout releases. There's a lot of interesting innovation this year, from bottle size to barrel to finishes and as always, unique adjuncts. Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Original Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Reserve (Parker's Heritage) Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Double Barrel (Heaven Hill) Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Chocolate Praline Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Cherries Jubilee Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout Proprietor's 2025 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.

For the third year in a row, Binny's has asked staff from all 46 stores to conduct blind tastings of their favorite wines, under $50. The massive list is pared down to 50 wines that you can grab for under $50. This week, we're trying seven highlights from the list. Pertois Moriset L'Assemblage Brut Domaine Kuentz Bas Alsace 2024 Stags' Leap Winery Chardonnay 2023 Tua Rita Rosso dei Notri 2023 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon Filius 2022 Damilano Barolo Lecinquevigne 2021 Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes 2015 Half Bottle 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.    

It's the most wonderful time for a beer, wet hopped beers to be specific. Bines are harvested and then hops are quickly raced to a nearby (ish) brewery, where they are thrown right into the boil kettle. There aren't as many wet hopped beers as there used to be, but there are still some great ones from local favorite breweries. Off Color Wet Hopped Beer for Pizza Hopewell Harvest Pale Ale Three Floyds Broo Doo Two Brothers Heavy Handed Revolution Farm to Fist 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.

Teeling's Master Distiller, Alex Chasko, got his start during the nascent days of the craft beer industry in the US. That probably explains why he's always driving innovation for Teeling Whiskey's barrel regiments. It's those unique barrel regiments that keeps the Whiskey Hotline returning to the Teeling barrel warehouse every year to dig through thousands of casks to find unique and interesting barrel finishes.  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.

Do you like collecting things? Or do you want to start? Do you have an empty wine cellar or a new fridge that needs filling? Should you even start collecting and aging, or just drink when you buy? Either way, Binny’s has you covered. This week we’re talking to spirits and wine experts about the dos and dont's of collecting. Trimbach Pinot Gris Chateau Potensac Medoc 2010 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.

Pumpkin Spice Latte Season (PSL SZN) is upon us. For beer and cider drinkers, that can sometimes mean big gloppy messes. But this week’s lineup features a selection of some of Roger’s favorites, that are all exercises in subtly and the art of balance. Also, a listener question about the status of a beloved Scottish lager. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale Cigar City Good Gourd Avery The Kaiser Pipeworks Pumpkin Spice Latte 2 Towns Hollow Jack Schilling Maple Moment Southern Tier Maple Warlock Ommegang All Hallows Treat 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.

Another episode, another multi-generational Italian liqueur producer named Matteo. This week, Barrel to Bottle welcomes Matteo Luxardo, Global Export Director, and Gareth “G” Franklin, Global Brand Ambassador. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur Luxardo Herbal Liqueur del Santo Luxardo Bitter Bianco Luxardo Espresso 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.  

We love amaro on Barrel to Bottle, but shockingly, we’ve never spoke to an Italian Amaro maker. That changes today as we welcome Matteo Meletti. For nearly 155 years, the Meletti family has been making anisettes and amari in the Le Marche region of Italy. Meletti Anisette Meletti Amaro Meletti Fernet Meletti Coffee Liqueur Meletti 1870 Bitter Aperitivo 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.  

It’s Bourbon Heritage Month, so this week we’re trying…tequila, Scotch, rum, whiskey and of course bourbon. Dan from the Whiskey Hotline is here with a round-up of the latest offerings from the world of spirits. Manuscrito Tequila Chapter One Blanco FEW Breakfast Bourbon Finished in Maple Syrup Barrels Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon Ryder Cup Limited Edition Coopers’ Craft Kentucky Straight Bourbon 2XO 2 Times Oak Kentucky Straight Bourbon the Gem of Kentucky New Riff Distilling Single Barrel Bourbons and Ryes Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Single Barrel Binny’s Handpicked GlenAllachie 10-Year-Old Cask Strength Batch #8 Speyside Single Malt E. León Jimenes 1903 Rum la Maison Velier Hampden Estate 1753 Jamaican Rum Smith & Cross Navy Strength Rum Penelope Black Walnut Old Fashioned 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

It’s the prost wonderful time of the year for beer geeks! The dog days of summer are probably over and it’s time to get your malt on. Specifically, the malty beers of Munich and the surrounding areas. This week we’re trying copper-colored Marzens and their paler but still strong Festbier counterparts. Spaten Oktoberfest Hofbräu Oktoberfestbier Paulaner Oktoberfest Märzen Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier Victory Festbier Revolution Oktoberfest Off Color Waddle Great Lakes Oktoberfest Ayinger Oktoberfest Märzen Weinhenstephaner Festbier Bell’s Octoberfest Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest collaboration with Stortebeker 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.  

Steve Nally is the master distiller at Bardstown Bourbon Company. His “schooling” came during 17 years at Maker’s Mark before becoming master distiller. At Bardstown Bourbon Company, he made dozens of recipes per year contract distilling, while also creating collaborative blends and the company’s own line of bourbons. Bardstown Bourbon Company Discovery Series #13 (coming soon) Bardstown Bourbon Company Origin Series Wheated Bardstown Bourbon Company Origin Series Bottled- in-Bond Bourbon Bardstown Bourbon Company Collaborative Series Maison Ferrand Cognac Finish (coming soon) 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.  

What have they been up to in the cluttered Whiskey Hotline office? As usual, there’s always something new on our shelves and it can be hard to figure out what’s what. This week Dan brought a box of new releases; new handpicked tequilas and Irish whiskies, single barrel Scotches and other fun stuff. El Tesoro Reposado Single Barrel #B067-1355 Binny’s Handpicked El Tesoro Reposado Single Barrel #B084-1355 Binny’s Handpicked Old Grand Dad 7-Year-Old Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon Booker’s Bourbon 7 Year 2025-2 By the Pond Batch Calumet Farm 17-Year-Old Decanter Bottle Kentucky Straight Bourbon Teeling Irish Single Pot still ex-Calvados Cask #79286 Binny’s Handpicked Teeling Irish Single Malt ex-Marsala Cask #97357 Binny’s Handpicked Teeling Irish Crystal Malt ex-Moscatel Cask #97511 Binny’s Handpicked Signatory Linkwood 11-Year-Old 100 Proof Edition 2013 Signatory Speyside M 13-Year-Old 100 Proof Edition 2011 Laphroaig Cairdeas 10-Year-Old Cask Strength 2024 Three Floyds Distilling Sea’s Cruelty Bana

Somehow, in the nearly 8 years of doing this podcast we have never had a guest from Lagunitas. That’s because we wanted Jeremy Marshall or nothing. Lagunitas’ brewmaster (head brewmonster) has been with the company for 18 years and has seen almost everything in craft beer. Lagunitas Hazy IPA (coming soon) Lagunitas A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Lagunitas Yakimopolis Lagunitas Lupulin Affair 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.  

Old Forester is one of the oldest whiskey brands in America, steeped in history but still innovating. Melissa Rift is the Master Taster at Old Forester. What is a Master Taster? We’ll find out this week, while tasting some Old Forester. Old Forester 1870 Original Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Old Forester 1897 Bottled in Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style Kentucky Straight Bourbon Old Forester 1910 Old Fine Whisky Kentucky Straight Bourbon Old Forester Rye 100 Proof 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.  

Roger loves Fourth of July. He loves most holidays because it’s an excuse to make holiday-themed cocktails. Unfortunately, we had to record this episode without him, but he’s here in spirit. Celebrate the long weekend with these themed cocktails from the easy to the complex. Check out all the recipes on our blog 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.  

This week we’re catching up with Ryan Maybee and J. Rieger & Co., who was last on the podcast in 2018. A lot has changed since then; they’re bottling their own juice and they have a visitor’s center with four bars and a 40-foot slide. We’re also joined by Rieger Master Distiller, Nathan Perry. J. Rieger & Company Rieger’s Kansas City Whiskey J. Rieger & Company Monogram Whiskey Oloroso Sherry Bota Finished Limited Release 2024 J. Rieger & Company Straight Bourbon J. Rieger & Company Straight Rye J. Rieger & Company Extra Fine Midwestern Dry Gin 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.  

Seattle Cider's Imperial Guava Citrus is new for summer and perfect for a quick tiki cocktail. We're trying it this week on the latest B2B Quick Sip.