Acquired Tastings

Wines for you to consider for your Thanksgiving gathering: Dad shares Domaine Durban Beaumes de Venise Marie shares Natura Pinot Noir Josh pours Bianca Vigna Prosecco, Selbach Incline Riesling, Granbazan Albarino, Darting Pinot Meunier, and Guy Burton Cote du Brouilly Josh brings a smorgasbord of Thanksgiving food.  He has sous vide turkey breast, Josh's homemade stuffing, roasted potatoes with le...

Dad pulls out of the archives the Seltzer episode that Josh and Jordan did in May of 2022.  They did Fruit Smash Pink Lemonade seltzer from New Belgium, and they cracked open the Strawberry Guava Topo Chico hard seltzer.  They discuss these seltzers and the flavor profiles.  Josh brings up how much he likes Sunboy Spiked Coconut water Seltzers.  This gave Dad the idea to revisit Sunboy since he ha...

With Spring in the air and with some days even warmer than that, Josh and Dad are thinking Spring Cocktails.  Dad brings the Miami Vice; A frozen concoction of half Pina Colada and half Strawberry Daiquiri.  Josh as always thinks outside the box. He has a Peach mint Pisco Sour. Josh's recipe is 2 oz. Pisco, 1 oz lime juice, 3/4 oz peach syrup, with muddled mint leaves and an egg white.  Do a dry s...

Josh is Back on the AT podcast!  Josh and Dad are doing Paso Robles' wines.  For Dad's wine he is doing Tooth & Nail's Destina Carbonic Grenache since he couldn't the Union Sacre's Chipie Carbonic Sangiovese that Josh brought.  For their food Dad brings a roasted chicken, and Prosciutto wrapped around mozzarella cheese. Josh has roasted chicken with pan gravy, parmesan and prosciutto. They hav...

Dad pulls out of the Archives the Irish Beers Episode.  In this episode John and John explore some of the classic Irish beers. Josh cracks open Smithwick's Irish Red and serves up some classics, corned beef, Irish soda bread, and 5 cheese pizza. John pours the Irish favorite Guinness draft from a nito can. He pairs it with fish and chips, and Dubliner Irish cheddar with stout. Have a Happy St. Pat...

From the Archives at the end of January 2024 Dad brings out this Non-Alcohol Episode.... At the start of "Dry February" Dad and Josh decide to do a special cocktail episode. In this episode they both make non-alcoholic cocktails. Dad uses the Ritual 0 Proof Rum Alternative to make a Dark and Stormy. Josh make 2 different cocktails with the Seedlip Grove 42. First he makes a classics egg white sour...

Dad and Josh are joined by Anne Marie for New Year's Eve wines. Josh's Champagne was Pierre Gimonnet Blanc de Blanc.  Josh brings popcorn with two different sauces. One sauce was a Sichuan Chili crisp and the other was Zhong sauce.  Both were made by Fly By Jing.  He also brings Duckham, and Porchetta di Parma. Dad brings the J. Lassalle Premier Cru Champaign.  His sides were planned to match a Ne...

From the Archives; Dad and Josh enjoy Christmas Beers.  Dad brings the Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh hop IPA.  Dad shares some baked brie with chestnut honey, blueberry coffee compote, green bean bundles, and gingerbread cookies. Josh pours the Delirium Noel from Belgium. His pairings are Murrays Maxx Extra aged cheese, sausage rolls, and braised short ribs. They have a great time getting into t...

Josh, Marie and Dad enjoy Thanksgiving food with their different wines to pair.  At the end each have a cocktail as well.  It was a fun time! For Josh's wine he brings the Brut Rose Reserve from Loimer. Dad couldn't find that Rose so he brought a can of Underwood Brut Rose'. Marie couldn't find it either so she has Le Grand Noir Brut Sparkling Rose' for her wine. For Josh's food he has thick slice...

Josh and Dad Celebrate the third year of the Acquired Tastings Podcast with cocktails!  Josh celebrates with a Fall Smash that he created.  Dad celebrates with a Champaign Cocktail.  They talk about the origin of these different drinks.  Dad and Josh discuss some of the AT podcast statistics. They enjoy their cocktails and riminess about the Acquired Tastings journey.  We are glad that so many of...

In this Episode from the archives Dad and Josh drink Octoberfest beers.  Dad brings the local beer from Lost Forty called Hunter and Josh brings a German beer called Ayinger Oktoberfest. The boys have a great time sipping these Mazen beers and snacking on their food.  Dad brings traditional German food.  Josh brings an array of non-standard German food to try as pairings. Join Josh and Dad for Coc...

Dad and Marie do a remote podcast where they taste the same wines and have the same food prepared.  Marie brings the Ostatu Blanco.  Dad could not get that specific wine in Arkansas so he brings a similar Spanish wine; the Campo Viego "The Vibrant Blend".  They both have a medley of Spanish cheeses from Trader Joe's.  The medley includes Iberico (Sheep, goat and cows milk),  Cabra (Goats milk), an...

From the Archives, Josh and Dad do Event Cocktails. They enjoy the Wimbledon and the US open tennis signature cocktails. Josh brought his version of the Honey Deuce (without the honeydew melon balls) and called it the Love Deuce!   Instead of using Grey Goose Vodka, Josh premiers Delta Dirt Distillery Sweet Blend Vodka.  It is a Black owned sweet potato vodka with deep roots from Helena Arkansas. ...

One of Dad's favorites from the Archives "Smoke in a Glass". Josh and John capture smoke in their glasses and taste a Mezcal and an Islay scotch. Josh brings the Del Maguey Vida Mezcal. He pairs a brisket taco with goat cheese and sweet palmiers with a cherry sauce. John stays in Scotland and travel to the island of Islay and brings Laphroaig 10 year old single malt scotch. To taste along side of...

Marie brings Ports to Arkansas so Dad and she can enjoy a tasting and food pairing with  them!  She does the  Churchill dry white Port.  She brings some Portuguese sardine pate, fig sausage, and an herb goat cheese.  Dad does the Churchill Reserve Port.  He brings stinky cheese to the table.  He brings Humboldt fog and blue Stilton.  The house provides chocolate brownies. Marie and Dad have a grea...

Dad pulls out an AT Episode from the archives.  It's a beer week, specifically when Josh becomes a BeerVenger.  The BeerVenger podcast is one of our favorites and a sister to us.  We provided them some Lost Forty Nighty Night for their podcast enjoyment.  They in turn invited Josh to be on their podcast.  Josh tells his Origin story and tells about his special tasting abilities.  As a BeerVenger y...

Josh is settling in his new home in Montana and Dad is recuperating from his knee surgery.  It's officially summer 2023 so let's get to grilling.  For this AT episode Dad pulls the previous recorded episode "Beers for Grilling". I hope you enjoy!  

Dad does the Barbazzale Rossa wine. For his pairings he brings an artichoke Sicilian style, Tounarelli al nero di seppia (squid ink spaghetti) and Octopus pieces on a seaweed salad. Josh brings the Grillo from the winery Luna Gaia. For his pairings he brings speck, boursin cheese, a strawberry goat cheese and lastly he brings a pistachio-limoncello gelato.   THE BOYS ANNOUNCE DAD'S UPCOMING KNEE S...

The Boys record on Cinco De Mayo so they do Tequila!  Dad does the1800 Reposado tequila.  His pairings are Chimichanga, Burrito, Ro-Tel cheese dip and of course black beans.  Josh brings La Gran Senora Anejo tequila.  His pairings are white cheese dip, beef nostos, and birria tocos. 

Dad and Josh drink beers that they like.  Josh brings from Shiner Brewing their Strawberry Blonde beer. For the food he wants to eat he brings; buttered popcorn spiced up with Gates rub, Big Orange Southwest burger that has shoestring onions. He also brought bresaola.  Dad brings Rochefort 10 for his beer.  For his sides he has baked camambert cheese with special unusual added ingredients;  His va...

Josh and Dad sip Italian white wine for this episode in preparation of his upcoming trip to Italy.  Dad brings Soave from Tenuta Santa Maria; Gaetano Bertani's family Vineyard. This is a DOC wine. For his snacks he has Laughing Cow cheese, Lean Cuisine's Chicken Fettucine and Lemon Meringue pie.  Josh has from the producer, Luna Gaia in Sicilia; Mandricardo Catarrato. This a IGP wine.  For his sid...

Josh and Dad do smoked Cocktails!  Not to be confused with "smoke in the glass".  Dad does his original smoked Old Fashioned.  Dad for his early birthday bought a glass top smoker for cocktails.  It uses a butane torch which used different woods to smoke your cocktails. He patterned his old Fashioned from Steve-O Shepard's Old Fashioned.  He used oak wood to smoke his cocktail.  Josh does a smoked...

Josh brings the Barn Hill gin handcrafted in Vermont from Caledonia Spirits.  He Brings honey macerated strawberries and blood orange fruit, Blood Orange cake with honey sugar icing and a Ponzu pork noddle bowl.  Dad does the Malfy Con Arancia Italian gin.  For his sides he did an Italian theme.  He brought Italian dry sausage, Goat cheese with crackers, and mozzarella cheese wrapped Prosciutto. ...

Dad goes with the Chocolate Noir Stout from Prairie Artesian Ale Brewing in Oklahoma, City.  He brings three sides Irish Whiskey Chips, His homemade BBQ ribs and Irish Porter cheddar cheese.  Josh brings the Left Hand Brewing dry stout on Nitro.  Josh brings from Fly Brewing their Duck Confit nostos, their cheddar bomb bugger that Josh added some corn beef "bacon".  He also brought some limoncello...

Dad brings the Ron Rubin Pinot Noir from the Russia River AVA.  He made the food for this podcast.  He made Corn Beef and cabbage, carrots, new potatoes with soda bread.  He also brought Irish cheddar, Dubliner stout cheese and a Rubin sandwich. Josh brings the Gruner Veltener wine from the Nikolaihof winery in Austria.  The boys enjoy these wines paired with their St. Patrick's day podcast food....