The Tipsy Timeline

This week's wintery, holiday-themed episode takes a trip to the North. Our friends in those cold temperatures used hard weather and hard times to come up with a big bad beast of a drink: Moose Milk. We take our time and explore a bit of cultural history, holiday traditions, and find out (one possible version of) how this drink came to be. Join us this week on the Tipsy Timeline!

This week we discuss the least-known career of one of America's most famous figures. Back in the late 1700s you couldn't just go to any liquor store and grab Four Roses or Jack Daniel's. So hard workin' patriots got to making whiskey, sometimes as a second or third career. Find out the story of one of America's first big whiskey distillers today on Tipsy the Timeline!

Sometimes stereotypes come with a kernel of truth, but what if we don't know the real truth? You may have guessed that Vodka has its roots in Eastern Europe, but did you know two separate cultures claim to have invented it? Well it turns out both are documented and we take the time to explore both sides! This week we explore the double-flavor of Vodka history. Join us on this week's Tipsy Timeline!

Have you ever enjoyed a beer? Have you ever enjoyed that beer in a glass? Have you ever wondered why that beer glass is shaped the way it is? Well we bet you are now! Which is why, in this episode, we look at the strange, evolving history of beer glassware as well as the other random assortment of beer drinking vessels.  So come join us as we talk about the history of your favorite beer drinking glasses and why they are the way they are on the Tipsy Timeline!

This week we celebrate Halloween by digging into the history of one of the season's most iconic staples. Witches! But where did our collective imagery come from, the pointy hats and brooms? That had to some from somewhere, right? What if we told you it came directly from beer? Find out how that could be true on today's Tipsy Timeline!

How do you like your cocktails? Straight up, with a twist, on the rocks...and of course, fat washed! Don't know what that means? Well have we got an episode for you! Join us as we look at the history of fat washed cocktails and their journey from perfume to mixologist darling. All this and more on the Tipsy Timeline!

The year: 1987, the place: USA, the beverage: Corona. The problem at hand remains a nasty, persistent little rumor that threatened Corona's very existence. Find out the weird truth about Corona's emergency damage control and how a company manages to sleuth out the truth. All this and more on this week's Tipsy Timeline!

Scotch whisky, that beautiful, peaty nectar that we all know and love so much. Today you can get Scotch at just about any liquor store in the world, but have you ever stopped to think about the fact that there was a time before Scotch? In today’s episode, we take a look at the illegal origins, economic rise, fall, and rise again of one of the world’s most popular liquors: Scotch whisky.

This week on the Tipsy Timeline we talk about turning disaster into opportunity. When life hands you lemons, juice 'em and throw 'em into a stiff drink! When life hands you the bubonic plague, make...drinks? This week we discuss how England managed turn the tide and create a whole new culture in the post-plague kingdom. Find out all the details this week on the Tipsy Timeline.

In today’s episode of the Tipsy Timeline, we learn about the birth of the world’s most popular beer style, the pilsner. Full of plagues, wars, more plagues, love (of beer), and country seeking redemption, this episode has it all. So join us as we explore the beer style that would shape the world’s beer preferences for generations.

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