Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's Podcast

It’s Pumpkin SZN! It’s been here for a while because seasonal creep starts earlier and earlier. At the height of the pumpkin craze, our stores were packed with pumpkin and pumpkin-spiced beverages. But after a bit of a lull, pumpkin is on the rise again and the great news is all our favorites are still around.           We’ve got a whole patch of pumpkin beers, wines and spirits to try this week. If you like pumpkin, you’re not basic! Drink what you like!

• Big Muddy Pumpkin Smasher
• Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale
• Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
• Schlafly Vanilla Pumpkin Ale
• Off Color Pumpkin Beer for Cafés
• Southern Tier Caramel Pumking
• New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin
• Leelanau Cellars Witches Brew Spiced Apple
• Prairie State Pumpkin Wine
• St. Julian Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Fulton’s Harvest Pumpkin Pie Cream Liqueur
• Buzzballz Pumpkin

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There are always new items in the spirits aisles of Binny’s. While bourbon is still very much the focus, don’t forget about Scotch, Rye and even Scottish Rye.

• Jim Beam Sunshine Blend
• J. Reiger & Co. Straight Bourbon
• Bardstown Bourbon Company Origin Series Wheated
• Still Austin High Rye Bourbon Single Barrel #2020/008-1 Binny’s Handpicked
• Angel’s Envy Bourbon Sherry Barrel Select #CE055 Binny’s Handpicked
• SirDavis Rye
• RyeLaw Scottish Rye Whisky
• Yellowstone American Single Malt Single Barrel #SM090 Yellowstone American Single Malt Single Barrel #SM056
• FEW Spirits Chicago Smokeworks Cherrywood Smoked Malt Whiskey
• Gordon Daniels Linkwood 15-Year-Old Speyside Single Malt

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Oktoberfest is probably our most beloved seasonal beer style, so it just makes sense for Barrel to Bottle to regularly revisit Märzens and Festbiers. There are so many Oktoberfest-adjacent beers on our shelves that we can do an episode almost every year with little to no overlap.

This year, we’ve got a slew of American craft takes on the styles, and only one from Germany. So lace up your dirndl and grab your liter glass, it’s time for Gemütlichkeit.

• Urban Chestnut O-Katz Oachkatzlschwoaf Oktoberfest
• Pollyanna Fruhauf Oktoberfest
• Art History Artoberfest
• Central Waters Octoberfest Lager
• Rhinegeist Franz
• Hofbrauhaus-Freising Festbier
• Maplewood Festbier
• Firestone Walker Oaktoberfest
• Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest collaboration with Brauerei Gutmann

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Pinot Noir can sometimes seem daunting to some wine drinkers, but it’s not. This week, Chris has five wines from the Willamette Valley 2022 vintage. Originally, experts thought 2022 was going to be a continuation of a run of bad vintages, but things turned around with high quality fruit and better yields than predicted.

• Maison Noir OPP Other People’s Pinot 2022
• Hyland Estates Petit Pinot Noir 2022
• Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir Dundee Hills 2022
• Cristom Pinot Noir Mt. Jefferson Cuvee 2022
• Patricia Green Pinot Noir La Belle Promenade Vineyard 2022

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Summer may be drawing to a close, but it’s going to stay warm for a while. That means there’s plenty of time to fire up your blender and rethink frozen cocktails.  They don’t need to be sweet and overbearing, they can be balanced and still refreshing and delicious.

You can check out all the cocktail recipes on our blog. 

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Rum: underappreciated and misunderstood. That’s why we keep doing rum episodes, because it deserves the attention, Plus, it’s the Summer of Rum. Pat has brought in a treasure trove of new and new-to-Binny’s rums that run the gamut from lighter to funky, blended to single barrel, flavored to full-proof, sweet to estery. 

• Virago Four Port Rum
• Virago Ruby Port Cask Rum
• DeHart Grander Trophy Release Small Batch Single Origin Panama Rum
• Diplomatico Selección de la Familia Rum
• Planteray Mr. Fogg Sail Navy Rum Sail no. 1
• Rhum JM 8-Year-Old ex-Bourbon Barrel #0001 Binny’s Handpicked 2014
• Rhum Clement 5-Year-Old ex-Scotch Barrel #0034 Binny’s Handpicked
• Holmes Cay Fiji Single Origin Blend Rum
• Holmes Cay Reunion Island Grande Arome Rhum
• Worthy Park Single Estate 109 Proof Jamaica Pot Distilled Rum
• Worthy Park Estate White Overproof Pot Still Jamaica Rum
• Planteray Rum Cut & Dry Coconut

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Like the Quadrennial Summer Sports Competition, Binny’s shelves have representation from all over the world. Pat didn’t bring a bottle from every country, luckily, but he, Roger and Chris brought spirits, beer and wine from around the world.

Let the games begin!

• South Korea: SoonHari Apple Mango
• Switzerland: Chateau de Trevelin Chasselas Aubonne 2022
• Canada: Unibroue Don de Dieu
• China: Kweichow Moutai (coming soon)
• Serbia: Vinarija Deurić Severna Morava 2020
• Germany: Flensburger Pilsner
• Turkey: Tekirdag Rakisi Gold Series Aged 100% Grape Raki
• Mexico: Monte Xanic Sauvignon Blanc
• Mexico: Mezcal Vago by Tio Rey Binny’s Ensamble
• Poland: Zywiec Porter
• South Africa: Bayab African Grown Classic Dry Gin
• Georgia: Kakhuri Gvinis Marani Mukuzani Dry Georgian Red
• Czech Republic: BrouCzech Dark Lager
• Sweden: Åhus Akvavit
• North Macedonia: Ezimit Vranec 2020
• Jamaica: Dragon Stout
• Japan: Suntory Hakushu 12-Year-Old Peated Japanese Single Malt Whisky
• Armenia: Tree of Life Pomegranate Wine
• Belgium: Trappistes Rochefort 8
• Scotland: Laphroaig Cairdeas 10-Year-Old Cask Strength 2024

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America’s Founding Fathers loved Madeira, and so does our own Roger Adamson. Regular listeners will know how much he brings it up and how much he’s been wanting to do a Madeira episode.

Who better to talk Madeira with than Chris Blandy? His family has been involved in making Madeira on the island for seven generations.  

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Viral cocktails have been on Pat’s radar for years now, and we finally have a Gen Z co-host in touch with what the kids (21+) are drinking these days. This week Lexi does all the work for Pat and mixes Tik-Tok worthy cocktails for her unenthusiastic co-hosts. 

Grab all the recipes on our blog. 

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Every winter, Binny’s spirits buyers gather all the new ready-to-drink canned cocktails for a massive tasting. This event, known as Canapalooza, is where they narrow down hundreds of products to the ones that are worth drinking.

For every can you find on the shelf, there are probably 10 or more that were rejected. Are you stilly, or bubby? These are this year’s standouts.

• Good Boy Vodka John Daly Cocktail
• Surfside 8 Pack Cans
• Vosa Vodka Water
• Vosa High Line
• Minus 196 Vodka Seltzer Variety
• Carbliss Passion Fruit Vodka Cocktail Carbliss Margarita
• Three Floyds Vodka Splash Orange, Lemon & Pineapple
• The Long Drink Company Peach Cocktail
• Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop
• Cutwater Grape Vodka Transfusion
• Pusser’s Rum Painkiller Cocktail
• Tip Top Bees Knees

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