Ginny Tonic and Charlie are back with a new Bottoms Up as they talk with Nic Balzer from Queen City Hemp about their new CBD Seltzer Water. After the chat, they return making a seltzer spritzer with their Blood Orange CBD Seltzer.

CBD Seltzer Spritzer

1/2 cup frozen watermelon cubes
4 oz white wine
6 oz Queen City Hemp Blood Orange Soda
2-3 dashes of bitters

Combine all ingredients in a large wine glass and stir to combine.

Full and fun show this week! Ginny Tonic and Charlie discuss the opening of Service Bar, the new restaurant and bar at Middle West Spirits in Columbus. Next, they sit down with Mike Bowling from Rise Brands and 16-Bit Bar+Arcade to talk about the trend in arcade bars that his happening around the country and later they talk with Nic Balzer from Queen City Hemp about their new CBD Seltzer Water. Two interviews, one show and so much more all in under and hour... Go!

This week we mix up your Friday with a cocktail featuring La Criox Pamplemousse from the website Supercall. Along the way we also discuss using the soda to cut calories in your cocktails and so much more.

Extreme Pamplemousse

0.75 OZ MEZCAL VIDA
0.75 OZ APEROL
0.5 ST. GERMAIN
0.5 OZ GRAPEFRUIT JUICE
0.5 OZ LIME JUICE
LA CROIX PAMPLEMOUSSE, TO TOP
GRAPEFRUIT TWIST, FOR GARNISH

Using a jigger, add the mezcal, Aperol, St-Germain, grapefruit juice and lime to a shaker tin with ice. Shake. Using a Hawthorne strainer, strain the cocktail into a large wine glass filled with fresh ice. Top the cocktail with La Croix Pamplemousse and stir with a bar spoon to incorporate. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

Ginny and Charlie discuss three of the major events of the weekend, The Cincinnati Comic Expo, The Cincinnati Food + Wine Classic, and Cincinnati Cock Fight. They dig into the controversy that lead the founders of Tales of the Cocktail to step down earlier this week and how to react when your bar or your employee has offended somebody. Finally, they mix up a cocktail with La Criox Pamplemousse from the website Supercall and discuss using the soda to cut calories in your cocktails.

In addition to celebrating the return of Bottoms Up, this week we're making an OYO Bourbon Maple Sour as featured recently by Ginny Tonic on Fox 19's Morning Show.

Recipe: 2 oz OYO Bourbon, 3/4 oz maple syrup, 3/4 oz lemon juice, 4 dashes orange bitters... Shake and serve over ice!

Ginny Tonic and Charlie present their 300th Episode. Recorded live at The Overlook Lodge in Cincinnati, they discuss the future of the podcast, including becoming an exclusively drinks and events focused show, relaunching the Bottoms Up Podcast, and Ginny even unveils her new podcast, Remeasured Life.

On the pilot episode of The Remeasured Life. Ginny Tonic talks with Alexandra Harcha Montes, a graphic designer who moved to the United States from Lima in order to be able to pursue a career in art.

This week, as we count down to our big 300th episode celebration, we're pretty alcohol and events focused! We begin catching you up on all the latest stories from around the city and derail a bit into a discussion of the film Rocky. From there we consider the current state of craft beer in the broader market and how it's doing these days. Next, we are joined by Donna Covrett and Logan Brown as we discuss the 2017 Cincinnati Food + Wine Classic. As we chat we learn about new features of this year's Classic and Logan shares four bottles of wine finished spirits which we try for the Bottom's Up segment. We close with some great upcoming events and share a few tidbits as we approach next week's live show.

There are a lot of stories from the weekend as a birthday is celebrated, family matters are enjoyed and cocktails are created. We follow that up with the formal announcement of Tokyo Kitty, a Japanese-style karaoke bar, which will launch here in Cincinnati later this year. From there we touch base with Miranda Leurck of Angels Envy as they unveil a solid "save the trees" initiative. All that and we haven't even left the FIRST SEGMENT yet. What happens in the rest of the show? We take on the war on drugs, try some malt whiskey, listen to a band from Louisville and send you off with a few fun recommendations for the week ahead. All in a days Tonic so join us! 

We kick off the show with stories from hocking hills, hot tubs, a bit of gambling and a cocktail contest. From there we are joined by two friends, Greg and Cindy, who have been show regulars over the years and discuss restarting lives (with a bit of rum on the side). Next, we sit down with a very interesting beer and ramble on in many conversational directions. It only gets more far reaching as we turn to a bit of music from Jidenna that's been on Charlie's mind this week. It's a longer episode, but when a conversation with friends gets interesting, you really don't want to turn off the mics do you?