I’ve been hearing rumors about interesting COOP experiments with barrel aged DNR for years, and was intrigued to see this pop up on the shelf. It is attractively packaged in a thick 375 ml corked and caged bottle and handsomely printed directly on the glass, a great new look for COOP. I like to see […]
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“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”-Peter Pan Now, to the cherries! So. For the past few months I have been experimenting with different bourbon cherry recipes to figure out which one was the best. Or really, to try to make cherries that have the same texture as Luxardo cherries, but with bourbon, and cheaper. […]
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Last weekend was the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival and you know what that means! The 3rd annual Barrels and Mash awards! We only went to one session this year (The VIP session on Saturday afternoon) which meant we had to pack as many tasty brew samples into the three hour time slot as we possibly could. […]
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Oklahoma City’s newest bar is upon us, and it’s not like one you’ve ever seen. The Bunker Club, the newest concept from The Pump owners Ian and Hailey McDermid, is opening very soon next door to the Tower Theater on 23rd street. The Bunker, considered a “high dive” bar, sports a Cold War-era theme and is decked out with gold […]
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Blood Oath is back with its 3rd pact. Blood Oath comes from Luxco, currently an NDP out of St. Louis while they get their new Lux Row Distillery up and running. So far I’ve been impressed with this line and you can read my thoughts on the last pact here . Let’s let Luxco explain a little bit […]
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This is the first American Solera brew I had and that little pour at the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival wasn’t near enough. That 2oz hit of sour cherry juice got me so excited for the launch of American Solera and I couldn’t wait to bring home my own bottle of Foeder Cerise. So now here I am, […]
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I was shopping for some Vermouth for my Manhatthan addiction a while back and saw these three lovely little Dolin vermouths just sitting in a row waiting to be bought. I thought to myself, hello brain! Let’s buy some and see which one I like better in a Manhattan. Makes sense right? Well, it does […]
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These cocktails are ones that we over here at Barrels and Mash enjoy on a regular basis, if we don’t drink it, we don’t post it. Simple as that, cheers! Bourbon Strong Tonic 2 ounces of bourbon (Knob Creek Small Batch, keep in mind, the better your bourbon, the better your cocktail) 1 ounce of […]
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When Kate found a bottle of Charbay S Whiskey for only $60, she just couldn’t pass it up, and my decision to marry her all those years ago was yet again justified. We’ve got a bottle of the Charbay R5 (distilled from Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA) which is one of my favorite bottles to […]
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Maker’s Mark made only one product for around 50 years before adding a second expression to their offerings. Maker’s 46 was released in 2010, and it’s the same whiskey as normal Maker’s with the only difference: an extra aging process. The whiskey is dumped at the same time as the normal expression (at around 5 or […]
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