The Liquor Store Podcast

Tasting Notes:  This 25yr old "North American" single malt whiskey from Whistlepig is likely of Canadian origin, but no matter, it's a juggernaut of oak, fruit, and soft dessert like flavors. It's finished in Silver Oak Cabernet Barrels and perfectly blends the fruit of the malt and the dark fruit of the cab all wrapped up in an ultra-aged, ultra cool, and ultra expensive package. We've got ONE bo...

Tasting Notes:  High Noon Vodka Iced Tea has arrived! This variety 8-pack features four flavors: Original, Lemon, Raspberry, and Peach and has the perfect combination of real vodka and real iced tea in every sip. This Vodka Iced Tea is also non-carbonated and contains no added sugar. Perfection indeed!

Tasting Notes:  Wax leather, fine oak, and dark fruit bottled at 90 proof. IW Harper Reserve Cabernet Cask Finish is a vintage brand now owned by Diageo that most certainly flies under the radar, but definitely worh a try. The palate slaps with chocolate covered cherries, mint tea, and a lifted fruit core wrapped around some classic vanilla and toffee that makes this a great dessert whiskey.

Just in time for hot pool days and Memorial Day weekend, Kylie Jenner's new Sprinter Vodka Soda has no added sugar, 3 grams of carbs, and only 100 calories and is made with real fruit juice, sparkling water, and vodka. If you love High Noon, Twisted Tea, or Mom Water, give these flavors a try. Each 8pk contains 2 each of grapefruit, lime, peach, and black cherry.

  Sometimes popular things got that way for a reason, and it's not just hype and marketing. Patron Silver is one such item. The clean consistent flavor profile, vast availability, and fresh agave and citrus flavors are the reason why Patron Silver is still on top. We place it in the same category as Johnnie Walker Black...or Tanqueray gin, there may be a LOT of it out there, but that doesn't mean...

Tasting Notes:  Since Old Grand Dad 114 has become more widely available again, we'd thought we revisit this under the radar value bourbon. Made with Jim Beam's slightly higher rye recipe, the same as in Basil Hayden, and bottled without age statement at 114 proof. The normally "foxy" yeast and orange peel characteristic of Jim Beam is on full display with fruit, yeast, and oak being pushed forwar...

Tasting Notes:  To reflect on the change in seasons, Oberon Eclipse is slightly stronger and darker than its namesake. However, it still remains easy-drinking and refreshing. It's the perfect beer for cozy nights spent in good company. Oberon Eclipse has a strong wheat backbone, balanced with a little bit of sweetness and richness accompanied by the orange and coriander. It features a slightly bit...

Tasting Notes:  On final closeout for $50, RUN, don't walk to the store to grab one of these single barrels of Highland Park 13yr cask strength single malt scotch aged exclusively in first fill European oak sherry butt. Distilled in 2006 and bottle in 2019 at 124.2 proof this malt exudes Orkney character with notes of dark honey, fruit cake, candied orange peel, and rich syrupy malt. The proof car...

Tasting Notes:  Drawn from the same stocks as the much allocated Caribou Crossing, a true HIDDEN GEM is Sazerac's Rich and Rare Reserve. It's priced like bottom shelf, but it's one of the BEST Canadian blends out there and for $12.99 a bottle it's a completely under the radar blend. Even up against Crown or Canadian Club this vanilla and oak rich whiskey exudes character and stands up to it's more...

  This double dry-hopped double IPA grabs you with a big tropical beer hug—bursting with hops, hops and more hops. Notes of mango, pineapple, peach, and citrus are followed up with dank pine notes. Like a bear hug... but from a beer. 9.9% alc for only $3.49 in a 19oz can!

Tasting Notes:  I didn't think I would love this whiskey, but boy was I wrong. This is a 12yr old Buffalo Trace aged in French oak barrels. Some other French oak whiskies tend to be overpowering, but this was just the right amount of silkiness, mouthfeel and richer vanilla and red fruit flavor that I love. It somehow manages a sweet mouthfeel without tasting sweet and also manages a fairly heavy o...

Tasting Notes:  This 6.2% abv hazy IPA from Founder's is made with Citra, Mosaic, Chinook, and Cascade hops and weighs in at 50 IBUs. Medium plus hop profile with lots of citrus notes, light mouthfeel, and no teeth scraping aftertaste. Perfectly balanced warm-weather hazy IPA.

  Tasting Notes Red Hot Deal alert on this premium 100% agave blanco tequila, ONLY $31.99 ($8 off)! If you are looking for a smooth drinking, light agave, citrus and spice driven blanco, then Tres Gen Plata is for you! Mellow lime and light "fresh rain" earth aroma along with white pepper and tropical fruit. On the palate, fruit with a touch of spice on the finish. Grab it now while its on special...

  Jim Beam's latest innovation is a 5 year old 94 proof SINGLE MALT whiskey made with 100% barley malt, distilled in column stills in Clermont Kentucky from a jug yeast mash, and aged in new American oak, as stipulated by US law. This is one of many recently released barley-based whiskies by American distilleries, looking to push the category forward. Toasted cereal grain on the nose with dark fru...

Tasting Notes:  If you like drinking LOCAL and you're into LOW CAL and LOW ALC, then Upland Little Dragon is the best-tasting one on the market, in our opinion. Many beers in this category suffer from being either under malted, or under hopped or over hopped and under malted. Still, Little Dragon miraculously manages the exact right balance of each of these, with enough malt heft to provide body a...

Tasting Notes:  The latest Orphan Barrel project is a fantastically tasty blend of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee bourbons, all bottled at the Dickel distillery in Tullahoma. I'm glad to see they could pull this one off, as Dickel is not to everyone's taste, but they've managed to sweeten up the normally corn-heavy whiskey with MGP, along with some spice and elegance from an 18-year-old Kentucky...

  Calumet Farm may be on the biggest "sleeper hit" whiskey brands on the market. Yes, they source all their Kentucky whiskey, but they've been doing it for so long they've got one of the largest selections of sourced older bottlings which have been hitting the market in recent years. Their "Bull Lea" 10 year is a non-chill filtered 100 proof, 10yr old bourbon dripping with character. We love the f...

Tasting Notes:  Flavored whiskey and moonshine have exploded in recent years, starting with traditional flavors like cinnamon, peach, and blackberry, but watch out, because the confectionary flavors, like chocolate, peanut butter, and now Dough Ball Birthday Cake whiskey are beginning to make a splash. Bottled at 70 proof, Dough Ball is fun in a bottle. Not really made for your traditional whiskey...

Elijah Craig has spent lots of marketing dollars in the last few years on building a campaign around Elijah Craig bourbon as the "go to" for an Old Fashioned, which is quite serviceable in almost every level, but we've always been fans of rye based old fashioned which is why the Elijah Craig RYE is a perfect opportunity to make this drink. Bottled at 94 proof, the EC rye is on the lighter side of...

Tasting Notes:  What happens when you combine a very old scotch brand with pedigree reaching back hundreds of years and pineapple? A surprisingly delicious and drinkable combo. Buchanan's regular blended scotch is certainly a sleeper, but the matly goodness of the whisky is complimented perfectly by the tropical fruit both on the nose and the palate. It drinks sweeter than average, but if you're l...

Tasting Notes:  The shocking truth about Jack Daniel's is that the older the whiskey and higher the proof the BETTER it keeps getting. Whiskey brands for years have leant on marketing speak around "the perfect age" or "aged to perfection" while being relatively vague about actual age, but then end up releasing older whiskies that just aren't quite as good as their regular line up. This is not the...

Tasting Notes:  The first Eclipse single barrel sold out so quickly we went ahead and grabbed the sister barrel and bottled it up just in time for Monday's HISTORIC celestial event. If you are looking for something to toast the eclipse with, what better way than an Indiana-made, Indiana-bottled, and Indiana-sold bourbon? 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% barley malt, aged 5 years and bottled at cask strength...

Tasting Notes:  Three year old Buffalo Trace, mashbill #1 bottled at 80 proof. First off, the ground work of Buff Trace is in every bottle, the baseline sweetness is there along with a young spice, that drinks a little hot, but for the price, it's hard to beat. The oak is foundational, and leans towards cinnamon on the palate finishing with a perfectly pleasant bite to go along with the vanilla, t...

Tasting Notes:  The latest craze to hit our shelves is a 16% alc flavored Moldovan Moscato aptly named XXL. Featuring Cherry, Blackberry, Apple, and Blueberry, these slightly sparkling, sweet but balanced grape bombs go perfectly with just about any cut loose good time. Grab 'em, chiill 'em, and enjoy! Available in select locations.

Tasting Notes:  After years of successfully growing the Old Forester brand, Master Blender Jackie Zykan struck out on her own with the Neeley Family Distillery in Stanford, Kentucky. Their first product, called Hidden Barn, honors the tradition of illicit stills dotting the Kentucky countryside, painted black as to avoid detection by the telltale fungus that grows black on all the buildings where...