Cocktails With Friends

A special week deserves a special podcast. Friday, October 13th is the beginning of Elijah Craig Old Fashioned Week and The Bourbon Lens Family gets an oppertunity to sit down and talk whiskey, the Old Fashioned and charity with a legand in the game Lynn House. Of course we talk how to create an Old Fashioned at home and how to celebrate this Holy Week in your hometown. Featured Cocktail: Old Fash...

In this episdoe of Cocktials with Friends, or host, Bob Cutler sits down with Sam Seidenberg who helps create an amazing bar progream at the Cuyama Bucklhorn in Santa Barbara County California. Sam and Bob discuss the resort, community and amazing offerings their farm to glass cocktail list offers their diverse customers. The conversation sipper is a riff off the Negroni that features mexcal, camp...

In this episdoe of Cocktials with Friends, or host, Bob Cutler sits down with Ann Louise Marquis with the Campari Group to talk about one of Bob's favorite weeks of the year, Negroni Week. Not only do this talk about the hugly successutul charitable component of the week but Anne Louise takes us on the history of the Negroni, some varriations of the cocktial and what the Negroni has inspired. Of c...

In this episdoe of Cocktails With Friends, or host, Bob Cutler sits down with Scott Stierwalt from Cocktail Kingdom in New York City. Scott is not only the Brand Director for the market leader in barware supplies but he is an accomplished barteneder. The conversation sipper, A Vermouth Highball, is a great cocktail to enjoy on a hot day or during a working lunch. The concersation is centered aroun...

In this episode of Coctkaisl With Friends, our hose, Bob Cutler sits down with his good friend & Bully Boy Brand Ambassador Jesse Hemmingway. The conversation sipper, a Rum Old Fashioned is just one highlight of the episdoe. We learn about Bully Boy's current offerings, a new project on the horizon and Jesse's advice on how to avoid awkward conversations at weddings. This Weeks Cocktail: The Rum O...

Bourbon Lens & Cocktails with Friends are teaming up for an epic Fantasy Football League!  We need 11 people to take on Bob & Jake to see who will get utimtale bragging rights and one hell of a prize package.  But there is more, if you finish below Bob & Jake you get to make a donation to the World Central Kitchen.  If you finish above us we will make that donation for you!  Got what it takes?  Jo...

In this episode of Cocktails With Friends, our host, Bob Cutler sits down with his good friend & Caroline Bicks. Caroline is a Professor of Literature at The University of Maine, author of a cocktail book called Shakespeare, Not Stirred and host of The Everyday Shakespeare Podcast . The conversational sipper for this show, Richard's Gimme-let, is a drink based on Richard from Henry VI, Part 3. The...

In this episode of Cocktails With Friends, our host, Bob Cutler sits down with his good friend & coworker Courtney Meherg. Courtney is the head bartender at Novio's Bistro in Bangor, Maine and a passionate disc golf player. The two friends talk about how they create a signature cocktail list, spend their time away from the bistro and why they do not have a muddler behind the Bistro's maine bar. Th...

2 ounces Bourbon 1/2 ounce Fresh Lemon Juice Making Watermelon Basil Simple Syrup Weigh watermelon water & add equal amount of whate sugar Bring mixture to boil or until sugar is disolved Cool in a waterbath for two hours  We would like to thank High Camp Flask for providing Cocktails With Friends listeners a Discount Code: CWF20 for 20% off!  You won't want to miss out on this opportunity!  Thank...

1.5 oz Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch 1oz Lemon Juice 2 Dashes Campfire Bitters How to make Honey Syrup  Equal parts honey & water. That is simmerd to allow for controlled sweetness and easier to apply in a cocktail  

In the pilot episode of Cocktails With Friends, our host, Bob Cutler, sits down with his good friend Jake Lewellen, host of Bourbon Lens Podcast, to discuss why we are starting this project. They discuss how their friendship has grown from social media interactions, to family trips, to barrel picks at Buffalo Trace Distillery. All it took was a phone call from Jake to get Bob off the sideline and...