Drep and Stone

On this episode we crack a bottle of Hook or By Crooke by W.D. O'Connell as we chat about our sort of winter, Sheboygan WI, Nick's winter flops, HDT NDT and HGTV, Driving Mr Waldrep, the first independently bottled Powerscourt, Irish Whiskey DNA, not being afraid to be experimental, we've got to trust the bottler, AirBNB versus Hotel, negative hotel experiences, a place to lay your head, unpacking...

On this episode we open a bottle of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Heritage Barrel as we talk about paying a 3rd grader to comb through your pennies, differences in char, lifting 300 lbs of loose change, bit of a twang on it, which NSYNC member are you, walking as a thought exercise, not wanting to hear yourself breathe, huffing and puffing while going up hill, nobody expects the Marlboro Reds, the s...

On this episode we crack into the Kolsch Style NA Beer from Best Day Brewing as we chat about the glorious day known as NYE, 2025 where'd you go?, a boutique known as Target, some special agreements with Wisconsin, Nick's optometry degree and Kyle's weak eyes, drinking 75 Oktoberfests in Denver, 1.5 billion dollars, statistics aren't in your favor, getting the ducks in a row, money changes everyth...

On this episode we crack into the Everglazed Crunch, OUR FIRST BARREL PICK EVER ( Grab your own bottle here ), while talking Christmas 2025, trying to escape everybody, being an ambiance guy, how picking a barrel worked, Bardstown distillate for High West, 60/40 and 126.4 and 7 Years, the non-artist made a label, rarely being speechless, a good mix of metaphors, capital R-I-C-H, Nick reads his own...

On this episode we crack a bottle of Ardnahoe's Inaguarl Release while talking distillery pronunciations, wild episodes, passing by Ardnahoe on the way to Bunnahabhain, Scottish hug in your haggis, a pseudo epiphany, deep metaphors,  illustrating how we engage in new ideas, bubble paitings, the blending of pigments, arts and crafts to deep philosophies, saying the word bubble 75 times, how we move...

We are pleased to announce our FIRST official barrel pick as a collaboration between Drep and Stone and the amazing Lakeland Whiskey Society ORDER HERE From Public Barrel, we introduce to you: "Everglazed Crunch"  This barrel hails from the Bardstown Bourbon Company and is a 7yr. 60/40 coming in at 126.4 proof. It is 1 of 3 experimental barrels that were distilled for High West. All 3 barrels had...

On this episode we dive into several offerings by Lyre's Non-Alcoholic while chatting about throwbacks, October of 2019, drunk raccoons, sleeping on a nice cool tile floor, Australian Lyres, no expectations and a healthy does of curiosity, American Malt, Australians saying No,  the highest of hopes, Karo syrup with lemon, left foot in the air and big toe up, revenge of the glucosides, London Dry,...

On this episode we revist a favorite, Episode 64- Holiday Drinks Special, where we get in the holiday spirit by mixing and sampling three festive holiday themed drinks: Hot Buttered Bourbon, Cranberry Spiced Rum Mule, and Boozy Cinnamon Apple Cider.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Support Us On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DrepandStone We'd love to hear from you! https://linktr.ee/Drepand...

On this episode we crack open a Winter White Ale from Sam Adams and a  Delirium Noel  while talking about a chonky book, reading the abridged Treasure Island, being an Accelerated Reader only for the personal pan pizza, Best Western-not the hotel chain, cute orange slices, a can of jellied cranberry sauce, chewing on a candle, Funko Pops are filing for bankruptcy, Beanie babies, lulumon, Foo Foo F...

On this episode we crack open a couple of beers from SkyPuppy Brewing while talking about Nick making an amateur mistake, our first episode ever, the early whiskey journey, MGP, listening to 18 years of podcasts, Nick's favorite brewery, Let the Ashes Dance Festbier, a mike saturated in beer, the differences in Festbier and Marzen, A Voice in the Field Traditional Marzen, a beer that's better than...

On this episode we finish off a bottle of the Bruichladdich 2011 Islay Barley while talking about still being under the berg, the living room flume, constantly running hot, lifting a signatory bottle, time being a closed loop, that good oliday banana bread, hot buttered scotch light on the butter, the pantheon of bottles, how many pats is too many, the coolest whiskey on earth, Celsius to Fahrenhe...

On this episode we sample the herbal goodness of Underberg while chatting about ghost socks, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, crossing of the horror movie streams, a bandolier of herbal liqueurs, this is a beverage and not to be sipped or put in a Glencairn....we're doing it anyway, urine problems, slowly nudging up against a good nursing home smell, chewing on raw tree bark, digestive properties, hop...

We find ourselves recording from the media room at the GABF where we meet up with Grant Wood from BERO brewing. We sample the Noon Wheat , Kingston Golden Pils , Edgehill Hazy IPA , and Double Tasty West Coast Style IPA , while chatting about Tom Holland and Zendaya, the point of the NA beer, beer and the freedom to feel great the next day, beer for everyone, zebra drinking, pub culture, the socia...

From the confines our our amazing AirBNB we recap our incredible Great American Beer Festival experience and chat about the onslaught of flavorville, how to work your way through everything, why the GABF is better than your local brewfest, the media brunch, breaking through the beer wall, the multi day approach, we've got a new approach to the recording, what we wish there was more of at the GABF,...

On this episode we sample three of the Minus 196 Seltzers from Suntory while chatting about the pursuit of trying new things, a proprietary Japanese freezing process, whether we trust seltzer or not, flavored BS, Frootloops and PineSol, waking up to a bad decision, the love of Iceberg lettuce, something that makes me question why I'm eating it, rare minerals in Oklahoma, sinking into the muck, the...

On this episode we revist two of our favorite bottles from the past year, the Ardnamurchan Paul Launois Release and the Signatory Vintage Linkwood , while chatting about being the longest sports seasons, why alll the bowl games protect food, taking the time to appreciate the drink, You Can't spell Flowers without Lowes, your Grandma is the Queen of England, the amazing nature of boring TV, destroy...

On this episode we sample a few more octoberfest beers from New York Beer Project and Good People Brewing while talking about the best time of beer year, 17 hours in the Florida traffic, taking out your wisdom teeth with a rusty set of pliers, obeying the laws of traffic, how do we deal with people that we deem as bad drivers, the Idiot Driver Reflex, our behavior is based on circumstance, justify...

On this episode we sample Compass Box Crimson Casks while talking about not wearing a sweater, 16 years of black t-shirts, scotch that looks like bourbon, those well known Scottish patisseries, the absurdity of our lives, good ol'dialup, life in the 1920s,  advances we've seen in our lives, we can fly we can fly, watching VHS in 2025, reshaping who we are fundamentally, drawing us closer together...

On this episode we strap on the lederhosen, crank up the oom-pah music, and dive into our annual Octoberfest tasting. This year we sample  Sam Adams Octoberfest , Tripping Animals Schwein Haben , Goat Island Brewing's Octoberfest , Epic Brewing's Munich Mayhem ,  Good People Octoberfest Festival Beer , Grimm Brewing Festooning , and Civil Society Octoberfest while talking about the official greeti...

On this episode we sample Ledaig 18 Year while talking about making another large purchase, the ease in finding older scotch, peat as an accent, giving small bottleshops a shot, challenging yourself to read and right more, The Overstory, getting through a work that you're not in love with, Underworld, giving up on a book, books that everyone has a copy of but noone has read, reading outside of you...

On this episode dive into the high gravity of  Ardbeg's Smokiverse while talking about Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, weird college football mascots, why you should never confuse Ohio and Oregon, super angry trees, the holographic box, what the wort is wort, distilling with a salad spinner and w ashing machine whiskey, pairing Smokiverse against two others, the beachball package, nostalgic Mold-A-Ra...

On this episode we try  Brew Dog's Cold Beer while talking about the extra emphasis, our spurty summer, traveling to Scotland by way of Ohio, knowing when you gotta go you gotta go, the ever ongoing pursuit of the beer flavored beer, Kyle's 3 inches of foam, Here comes old foamy wobble, on the way back to claggy, we'd recycle if we could, the beautiful sound of garbage chimes, Superman is a waste...

On this episode we finally sample the Buffalo Trace Kosher Wheat while talking about Project Hail Mary, catching boomers, Goldmember, pouring whiskey over chunky ice cubes, spice on the edges, bourbon with a little thought, unpacking the bottle novel, a 7 year Weller that we're calling Buffalo Trace, anticipatory cleansing, a cooking metaphor, pairing this with Weller, have we been blown away, the...

On this episode we sample Wrexham Lager while chatting about why summers are a free for all, it's been a month since we've been behind the mics, when do the leaves start peeping, Wrexham, why alking is difficult, another TV show tie in, dank college towns, beer shared in community, a LOTR reference that makes Kyle's level of nerd is impressive, the beer from my hometown, everyone loves an underdog...

On this episode we sample Kilkerran 12 year Single Malt Scotch Whisky while chatting about vacation beers, Campbeltown whisky, Kyle's Gaelic pronunciations, a nostalgic nose, that Campbeltown funk, the new Superman, the most James Gunny of the Superman films, what they've done with Superman as a character, the silliness of the film, underlying comments, Kryptonite and picking up massive objects, s...