Review: New Belgium Pumpkick Ale
New Belgium Pumpkick Ale was introduced in 2013. New Belgium is the fourth largest craft brewery in the US. All of their beer is currently brewed in Ft. Collins but they will be opening a second brewery in Asheville North Carolina in early 2016. Husband and wife team Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan started selling beer first brewed in their basement in 1991. Their first two beers Abbey and Fat Tire are still available today. New Belgium is a 100% Employee owned company with employees receiving stock and a new cruiser bike after one year of employment. Pumpkick Ale is brewed with pumpkin juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cranberries, and lemon grass, and is available August-October. Read more 
Review: Kinky Flame Cinnamon Whisky
Kinky Flame Cinnamon Whisky is a cinnamon flavored Canadian Whisky that was just introduced. It is the newest member of the Kinky family that also includes Kinky Pink, Blue, and Gold liqueurs, and Kinky Vodka. Kinky Flame is the latest cinnamon flavored whiskey to enter the market with an eye on stealing market share from Fireball, the industry leader. It is made with premium Canadian Whiskey infused with natural cinnamon flavor. Read more
Review: OFallon Pumpkin Beer
OFallon Pumpkin Beer is one of five seasonal beers brewed in Maryland Heights Missouri at their brand new 40,000 square foot brewery. They also craft brew 6 year round, and 4 Brewers Stash beers. O’Fallon Pumpkin is brewed with 120 pounds of real pumpkin, Pale, White Wheat, and Caramel 90L grain, and cluster hops. They season the finished beer with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. O’Fallon Pumpkin is available from August-October or while supply last. Read more
Review: Kah Blanco Tequila
Kah Blanco tequila is one of five tequilas crafted by Kah and presented in bottles designed to honor Day of the Dead. Kah means life in Mayan. Each bottle is hand painted and designed to look like a traditional Calaveras, a skull made from sugar. It is made with 100% Blue agave that is shredded and baked in stainless steel autoclaves. Once the juice is extracted and fermented in covered tanks, the tequila is double distilled in a stainless steel pot still, and then triple filtered. Read more
Review: Finlandia Raspberry Vodka
Finlandia Raspberry vodka was released in July 2011. It is one of ten flavored vodka’s they craft in Kaskenkora Finland. They start with the finest six row barley. After the barley is fermented, a seven column continuous distillation process is used with more than 200 distillation steps to remove impurities. Pure glacial water from the Rajamaki Spring is blended to reduce the proof. All natural raspberry flavor is infused before bottling at 75 proof. Read more
Review: DSP CA 162 Straight Vodka
DSP CA 162 Straight Vodka. It is crafted with a blend of wheat vodka with premium wine varietal grapes including Muscat, Riesling, and Viogenier, grown in Mendocino County California. The grapes are vinified at local wineries and then distilled on their Germain-Robin Cognac still, and distilled again on a small Holstein pot still. The vodka is finally cold stabilized and filtered. Read more
Review: Svedka Colada Vodka
Svedka Colada Vodka was introduced July 2012. It was their seventh flavor at the time, and it was bottled at 75 proof. Svedka now produces 12 flavors and their Colada flavor is bottled at 70 proof. This review is for their 75 proof Colada. I have yet to find their 70 proof Colada. Each 750ml bottle is made with four pounds of Swedish winter wheat. A continuous distillation process is used before the vodka is run through high performance purification columns five separate times to remove impurities. Ice cold water from Swedish springs is then blended with the vodka before natural coconut, mango, and pineapple flavor is infused. With this ingredient list, and the name on the bottle there is no doubt a Pina Colada is the inspiration for this vodka, but since it is made with vodka instead or rum a more appropriate name would be Chi-Chi. Read more
Review: Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat Beer
Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat beer was introduced August 2011, and it is one of three seasonal beers they create. Their other seasonal beers are Lemon Shandy, and Shockolate Wheat. Shock Top Pumpkin starts with their Belgian wheat ale brewed with wheat, honey, coriander, orange, lemon, and lime peel and Cascade and Willamette hops. They brew this with pumpkin, and a variety of spices including nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove. Read more
Review: Arta Silver Tequila
Arta Silver tequila was introduced in 2009 by David Fox, a Silicon Valley Software Entrepenour. It is made with 100% Weber Blue agave hand planted and picked on a single estate. Arta is crafted by a third generation Master Distiller who slow roasts the agave for 12 hours and then rests the agave for 12 hours before it is quadruple crushed to remove the agave juice. Fruit yeast is added to ferment before the tequila is triple distilled and hand bottled and corked in a 100% recycled triangular glass bottle. Read more
Review: Strongbow Red Berries Hard Apple Cider
Strongbow Red Berries Hard Apple Cider was introduced March 2015. It is sold in their 12 pack variety pack which includes three bottles each of Strongbow Red Berries, Ginger, Gold Apple, and Honey and Apple. The Strongbow brand was launched in England in 1962 and it was acquired by Heineken in 2008. The apples used to create Strongbow cider are grown to produce cider and nothing else. Once harvested the apples are washed and crushed and the pure juice is extracted. After fermentation and filtering natural red berry flavors are blended before bottling. Read more