The Spirit Guides

Your ever-faithful Spirit Guides have taken up the challenge that all spirits afficionados must eventually face.  Will we find bliss dancing amongst visions of gleeful green fairies?  Or will we succomb to addiction and whoredom in the ghoulish gas-lit nightmares of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting?  Either way: this sounds like fun...

Your daring and loyal Spirit Guides once more turn to the arid lands of northern New Mexico to see what novel and exciting liquors we can find.  And we found bourbon made out of blue corn.  Have we gone insane?  Or have we managed to find one of America's best secrets!?  Come have a listen and find out...

Your ever-loyal Spirit Guides once moreventure into the unknown with an American craft whiskey.  We've been burned before, but will we find an amber treasure trove?  Pull up a stool and find out...

Embark on another trip to the Emerald Isle with your faithful and daring Spirit Guides to sample some...gin?  You heard right: gin.

Join your intrepid Spirit Guides as we venture once more into the realm of scotch whisky that's sort of from Scotland...

The Spirit Guides guides are visited by the Spirit of Christmas Past.  Will this rare and treasured bottle live up to our great expectations?  If not, we could be in for some hard times...

Avast, we be drinkin rum!  With our legendary insatiable taste for adventure, your favorite dashing crew of Spirit Guides take to the high seas to explore some barbadoan grog! (But without the lime and bilge water needed to make grog.)

Have we found an ever-elusive diamond in the rough? A classic, largely ignored bourbon hidden alongside an ever-expanding glut of new disappointing whiskeys?  Come along on a journey with your Spirit Guides and find out!

Your ever-loyal Spirit Guides take their jobs seriously.  That's why we will travel across this planet to have a taste of something unavailable closer to home.  And they do this for you.  Never forget that.

Join us, your faithful Spirit Guides, as we dip into our vaults of a dusty bottle of something special and out-of-production.

Your intrepid Spirit Guides take another voyage into the distant past by raiding one of our grandmother's liquor cabinets.  Have we uncovered forgotten gold?  Or just poisoned ourselves?  Come find out!

Your intrepid Spirit Guides return from distant lands to bring you a very special double review of two very special rums. How did we come across such bounty?  Have a listen to find out...

Avast! Your hearty Spirit Guides take to the high seas in pursuit of the ever elusive grog of the brave sailing men of the Queen's empire. Does this creation of a mad scientist from California mark the fruitful end of our long journey?  Come have a listen to find out...

The time has come once more the your Spirit Guides to explore a craft distilled rye whiskey named after a state.  Will this journey be their last?  Come for a listen and find out!

When The Spirit Guides make a resolution to drink more gin, we follow through.  Even if it has a German monkey on the bottle.  Come join us for a taste.

This is our first armagnac (or brandy for that matter) on the podcast.  So we got some that's 40 years old.  No big deal.

Two Spirit Guides walk into a distillery.  A distillery that neither gives tours nor do they even know anyone is coming...

To celebrate the recent trip of half of us to the Emerald Isle, your trusty Spirit Guides invite you back into the world of Irish Whiskey.

  Come join your intrepid Spirit Guides for a wee bit o' the creature as we voyage back to the old sod for these and even more Irish clichés...

With an insatiable desire to seek out the true meaning of barrel-finished whisky, your intrepid Spirit Guides trek once more into the heart of Scotland.

Your intrepid guides to the spirit world take you on a journey to France to try some scotch. You heard right.

Fulfilling the lifelong dream of two of your trusted Spirit Guides, we taste and review a legendary artisanl spirit that was distilled... with raw poultry.  And, uh, mountain fruits?

Take a stroll down Gin Alley with your favorite tour guides of the spirit world as try out a once long-lost gin.

Allow your guides to the world of spirits to take you deep into the realm of classic-rock-n-roll-themed, other-beverage-themed, beverages!  Would the King have liked this particular mix of coconut and vodka?  The Spirit Guides have strong opinions on this timeless question.

Two bottles of Irish Whiskey. One was legitimately imported to the USA, the other was CLANDESTINELY SMUGGLED INTO THE USA (legally on an airplane.) The Spirit Guides ask the important question: are these the same thing? And the even more important question: are they...good?