If This Bar Could Talk

An evening with Dino Tripodis, host of Best Podcast of the Year and Best Comedy Podcast and our friend Chad Kessler, Lead Distiller and Founder of 451 Spirits drops in.

We talk with the Superintendent of Liquor Control for the State of Ohio, Jim Canepa. We bust some myths, talk about barrel picks and new whiskeys coming to the State and other cool stuff that Jim is doing at Liquor Control

In this episode, we sit down with Julie Schickel Headley and Julie Pearce Grannon to talk about life and family while exposing them the world of craft cocktails.

via Online Slang Dictionary: to vomit ("boot") due to over consumption of alcohol, and then continue partying ("rally").

It's Negroni Week!

While Blair was preparing to help judge the Spirits of Columbus Negroni competition at The Joseph Le Meridian Hotel in Columbus, Ohio, I took some time to chat with the organizers, competitors and judges to find out what Negroni Week is all about as well as how each of the competitors decided to reinvent this classic drink.

Congratulations to all of the competitors! Their delicious takes on the classic cocktail made it a tough call for the judges and the closest outcome to date for fan favorite cocktail.

We had the opportunity to chat with Tom Belcher, inventor of WinePro2 and Hugh Kelly of Craft Event Bar and Murphy's Craft Bar and Kitchen in Sydney, OH. We tested out Tom's amazing little gadget that oxygenates wine and aged spirits, softening and smoothing out the finish. It's pretty amazing.

You can use the discount code ITBCT to get a discount on your purchase at: https://winepro2.com

Live music, burlesque, Herbalism — Hall of Two Truths has it all. We're talking with Laurie Granger and Mike Schaaf while drinking a cocktail from their menu called "Ace Boon Sazeracoon"

We do R&D so you don't have to. We visited several great spots in Delaware, Grandview and Italian Village.

In this episode, we sit down with Chad White to talk about his passion for Rum that turned into the philanthropic and social group that is the Ohio Rum Society.

While traveling to the New Orleans Bourbon Festival we had the great pleasure to meet the people involved in bringing the story of Nathan "Nearest" Green to light and creating an amazing new whiskey in his honor — Uncle Nearest 1856.

View our photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CbusCraftCocktailTour/photos/?tab=album&album_id=858592141144211

Find his story here: https://www.nearestgreen.com

In this episode we sit down with Logan Demmy, bar manager at the Citizens Trust in Columbus, Ohio. World traveler and mad scientists of cocktails, we'll hear about how tending bar overseas shaped his passion for craft cocktails.