Huntavore has finished another year of bringing you wildgame related material.  What better way to celebrate than with a drink and toast.  To get some inspiration, Nick is joined by Stuart and Colin of Mammoth Distilling in Northern Michigan.  The group discusses the spirits we love to drink when celebrating, contemplating, and carrying on tradition.  So grab a drab of your favorite drink, and enjoy.

Show Notes:

Holy Smokes!  Huntavore is celebrating its second year as a podcast!  Who knew anyone could talk about food and wild game for that long.  It has really been a trip to share my own experience and culinary journey, along with bringing in guests to teach us and challenge us.  I want to thank all of our previous guest and friends i’ve made along the way.  I want to thank Dan Johnson and the whole Sportsmen’s Nation crew.  And of coarse, you the listeners.  Its a real treasure to find folks who are passionate about the outdoors and also serious about their table fare.   So i'm celebrating the accomplishments of Huntavore, and also looking forward to this next year of sharing our hunting and fishing lifestyle through the utilization and consumption of our wildgame.

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the accomplishment of this year two, than a raise of the glass with an incredible cocktail.  To talk about celebration and tradition holding cocktails, Nick is joined by Stuart Hikman and Colin Gaudard of Mammoth Distilling.  A distillery located in Northern Michigan making a whole range of spirits.  Colin gives us a basic walkthrough of how making whiskeys differs from beer, along with some the process of refined distilling.  He also sheds light on some misconceptions, like Bourbon being a product only made in Kentucky (Fake News!)  

Stuart talks about making cocktails.  Specifically the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, that uses Jalapeno to make the drink spicy.  It surprises you, and really makes for a enjoyable drink, that isn’t all sugar and sweet.  During the covid pandemic, and the low availability of sanitizer, Mammoth halted spirit production and put their ethanol stores to work by producing sanitizer.  They began bottling and shipping the liquid gold in the amount upwards of 20,000 gallons.  To finish the conversation Nick has Stuart describe another favorite, an ol’ fashioned.  This was a super fun talk with some incredible gentlemen.  Cheers!

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