Hops & Spirits: Neat & Mixed

Our latest Q&A features a cool collaboration with Braxton Brewing and Graeter’s Ice Cream. Jake Rouse, Co-Founder and CEO of Braxton Brewing Co., and Tim Philpott, VP of Marketing for Graeter’s, join to talk about their Smoothie Seltzer collab. We also talk about how their partnership started, how much collaboration goes into the products, what the future holds and more.

Our latest Q&A takes us beyond Kentucky with PaQui Tequila Founder/CEO John Chappell. John chats with us on how PaQui Tequila started, what’s in the name, their “Celebrity Spokesperson Re-Education Program”, how PaQui is different, working with Javier Martinex & Gilberto Jasso, and what’s next.

Our latest Q&A with Buzzard’s Roost Sipping Whiskeys’ founder & master blender Jason Brauner. Jason chats with us on how Buzzard’s Roost started, what’s in the name, starting with rye whiskey releases first, launching bourbons and what’s next.

We go Beyond Kentucky for our latest Q&A with LS Cream Liqueur co-founder Stevens Charles. Stevens chats with us on how the idea for the cream liqueur started, using his grandmother’s recipe, challenges they faced, crafting cocktails with LS, the name and what’s next.

We go Beyond Kentucky for our Q&A with Honkaku Spirits. Chris Pellegrinin, founder, and Stephen Lyman, ambassador, chat with us on how they found their love of spirits, how Honkaku Spirits came about, the history behind their Takamine Whiskey, koji and how that differs from typical whiskey production, the science behind Japanese spirits and what’s next for them in 2022.

Our latest Q&A is with Philip Brandes, founder and CEO of Bravus Non Alcoholic Craft Brewing. Philip talks about how he got into home brewing non-alcoholic beer, launching Bravus, how they make their beer, creating a barrel-aged non-alcoholic brew and more.

It's our Craft Beer Roundtable as GoodBeerHunting.com’s Bryan Roth, Master Cicerone Neil Witte, and Cicerone/Beertender Lindsay Hayes all join us. We hit on a variety of topics, including is seltzer really dying or are the reports wrong, celebrity back brand issues, biggest stories/trends of 2021 and the gift you’d like to give the craft beer world.

We go Beyond Kentucky for this Q&A with Paige and Ryne Iseminger, founders/creators of Freshie Tequila Seltzer. Freshie is the first (and only) organic, non-GMO, gluten free, sparkling tequila seltzer, sustainably farmed and distilled. The drink originated as a “hair of the dog” cocktail after a little too much fun on a trip to Mexico.

We go Beyond Kentucky as we talk with Josh Cameron, North American Brand Ambassador for Roe & Co Irish Whiskey. Roe & Co is a new contemporary blend named to honor the memory of a whiskey-maker whose distillery was in its time the largest in Ireland. George Roe & Co helped build the golden era of Irish whiskey in the 19th century.

On our first Q&A we talk with Scott Neil, Horse Soldier Bourbon’s Chief Operations Officer. Scott and his friends banded together after years of service to the nation to launch Horse Soldier Bourbon. Their dedication to serving others and a passion for adventure led them on this new quest to create an all-American, award-winning bourbon.