Review: Blue Chair Bay Banana Rum Cream
Blue Chair Bay Banana Rum Cream was just released along with a Vanilla flavored rum. While Vanilla joins their previous four year round rum varieties, Banana Rum Cream is a limited release, following their Coconut Rum Cream which was offered last fall and winter. It is crafted with their white rum that is distilled and aged in oak barrels at the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados. Real cream and caramelized banana flavors are then blended before bottling at 30 proof. Read more
Review: UV Sangria Vodka
UV Sangria vodka was just introduced, and it answers the question, what do you do when you run out of vodka flavors? You make a vodka that tastes like wine with fruit flavors added. It is one of 22 vodka varieties UV creates with Midwest grown yellow corn and purified water from deep aquifers in Princeton Minnesota. It is distilled four times and then filtered with activated carbon. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Milagro Tequila Silver
Milagro Tequila Silver is made with 100% estate grown blue agave that have grown for 8-12 years in the red volcanic soil of the Jalisco Highlands. The hearts of the agave are slow roasted in clay ovens for 36 hours and then shredded and pressed to remove the agave juice. After fermentation, it is double distilled in copper lined pot stills, and then distilled a third time in stainless steel column stills. The Silver is then bottled in hand painted bottles at 80 proof. Milagro is Spanish for miracle and the company was formed by two Mexico City natives Danny Schneeweiss and Moy Guindi that were friends in college, who both shared a passion for tequila. They wanted to craft tequila that was not only the best tasting, but also reflected the new modern Mexico in its presentation. Read more
Review: Kinky Cocktails Gold
Kinky Cocktails Gold was just released along with their Blue flavor. This is the follow up to their very successful Kinky Cocktails Pink. Kinky Cocktails Gold is the malt beverage version of Kinky Gold Liqueur, which is a blend of super premium vodka distilled 5 times with luscious peach and tropical flavors. Kinky Cocktails Gold is brewed in Lacrosse Wisconsin with natural flavors and certified colors by City Brewing Company. Read more
Review: Patron Tequila Silver
Patron Tequila Silver was originally produced by Casa 7 Leguas. It was purchased by John Paul Dejoria, the founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair styling products, and Martin Crowley in 1989. Bacardi Limited acquired a significant minority share of Patron in 2008 when Martin Crowley died. It is by far the best selling line of ultra premium tequila, and like Tiger Woods and Grey Goose vodka , most people either love it or hate it. It is made with 100% Highlands grown Agave that is hand chopped and baked for over three days before it is crushed and the juice is fermented and then distilled in copper stills. It is poured into hand blown bottles and sealed with cork grown in Lisbon Spain. 60 hands are said to be used to create one bottle of Patron Silver tequila. Read more
Review: Bird Dog Chocolate Whiskey
Bird Dog Chocolate Whiskey was just introduced along with an apple whiskey flavor. They join four previously released whiskey flavors. It is made with corn, malted barley, and rye, and it is aged in oak barrels. Chocolate flavor is infused before bottling in Bowling Green Kentucky at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Peligroso Tequila Silver
Peligroso Tequila Silver was introduced by two avid surfers Keith Ross and Bruce Beach. In 2014 Peligroso was acquired by Diageo. It is made with 100% Weber Blue Agave. The agave hearts are steamed in brick ovens and the tequila is double distilled in copper and stainless stills. Peligroso is Spanish for dangerous. In the right, or wrong hands, isn’t all tequila a little dangerous. It is bottled at 84 proof with a glass embossed rattle snake on the bottle. Read more
Review: Shady Fruit Real Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka
Shady Fruit Real Ruby Red Grapefruit vodka is one of two new vodka flavors introduced by Diageo under their new, Shady Fruit label. The other flavor is Valencia Orange. It is made with vodka that is triple column distilled and ten times filtered. Unlike Smirnoff which is also triple distilled and filtered ten times, Shady Fruit vodka is gluten free. Real fruit juice from concentrate, and no corn syrup, are added before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Skyy Barcraft Watermelon Fresca Vodka
Skyy Barcraft Watermelon Fresca is one of three new flavored vodka’s just released by Skyy under their new Barcraft line. The other two flavors are Margarita Lime, and White Sangria. The Barcraft line of vodka’s are designed to be mixed with a single ingredient to create bar quality cocktails at home. It is made with grain distilled in four column stills in Pekin Illinois, and triple filtered through California limestone. It is then delivered by railcar to San Jose California where it is blended with water filtered through reverse osmosis. Natural flavors are added before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Finlandia Lime Vodka
Finlandia Lime vodka was introduced in 1999. It is one of ten flavored vodka’s they craft in Kaskenkorva Finland. They start with pure glacial spring water and the finest six row barley. A continuous distillation process with more than 200 distillation steps that leaves no impurities to filter is used. All natural lime flavor is infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more