Review: Strongbow Ginger Hard Apple Cider
Strongbow Ginger Hard Apple Cider was introduced March 2015 along with their Red Berries Hard Cider. It is available in 12 pack variety packs. The Strongbow brand was launched in England by the HP Bulmer Co. in 1962. In 2008 it was acquired by Heineken. Heineken also acquired the Stassen Ciders Co August 2012. Strongbow Ginger is made at Stassen in Aubel Belgium with apples, yeast, fresh sliced ginger and other natural flavors. Read more 
Review: Stoli White Pomegranik Vodka
Stoli White Pomegranik vodka was introduced May 2010. It is the only White Pomegranate flavored vodka currently on the market today. The white pomegranate is native to Iraq, south of Baghdad. It differs from the more popular red pomegranate in that it has fewer tannins and is less tart. It is one of 17 vodka flavors Stoli crafts with wheat and pure artesian well water. It is triple distilled and filtered four times before natural white pomegranate flavor is infused. Read more
Review: Deep Eddy Vodka
Deep Eddy vodka was introduced May 2011. Unlike most vodka distillers Deep Eddy launched the company with a flavored vodka when Clayton Christopher and Chad Auler the founders of Sweet Leaf Tea, and Savvy Vodka, crafted Deep Eddy Sweet Tea and released it in 2010. While they now create five vodkas, all start with their unflavored vodka base. Deep Eddy is made with sweet corn and spring water from deep aquifers in Texas Hill country. It is column distilled ten times in a 20 foot column still, and slowly filtered six times over charcoal. They recently moved to a 30,000 square foot distillery in Dripping Springs Texas. Read more
Review: Charbay Blood Orange Vodka
Charbay Blood Orange vodka is one of 6 flavored vodka’s the Karakasevic family crafts in Napa Valley with their unflavored vodka as a base. It is crafted with Midwest grown corn and rye. They use a 660 gallon still along with a proprietary distillation process and distill to 192 proof. Pure spring water that has been filtered to 3 PPM purity is used to reduce the proof. One batch of Blood Orange is made each year with whole blood oranges grown in Central California. They are crushed whole within the first three days of picking in February each year. The flavor and color extraction process takes six months. The extraction is then gently blended with the vodka and bottled at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Ice Fox Vodka
Ice Fox Vodka is crafted on Treasure Island off the coast of San Francisco California. It is made with American corn and pristine water from the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. It is triple distilled in small batches using the only French alembic copper pot still in the US. The Arctic Fox pictured on the bottle is the inspiration for this vodka. Read more
Review: Cruzan Blueberry Lemonade Rum
Cruzan Blueberry Lemonade rum is set for release in April. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a bottle a little early. It is one of 16 rum flavors they create with rum distilled in St Croix with tropical rain water and high quality molasses. The Nelthropp family has been crafting rum for eight generations since they launched the Cruzan brand of rum in the early 1800’s. They use a five column distillation process before aging in oak barrels. The rum is shipped to Florida where natural blueberry and lemon flavor is added before bottling at 42 proof. Read more
Review: Baileys Dulce de Leche Irish Cream Liqueur
Baileys Dulce de Leche Irish Cream liqueur was just introduced in the US. It has been available in Mexico and the Carribean since last October. Dulce de Leche is a popular South American confection created by slowly heating sweetened milk until it is golden in color and syrupy. This brings the Baileys US count back up to five flavors of Irish Cream. Read more
Review: St George California Citrus Vodka
St George California Citrus vodka was just introduced along with their All Purpose, and Green Chili flavored vodka. If the St. George name sounds familiar it is the same distillery that combined with Ansley Coale, the President of Germain-Robin, now Craft Distillers, to create Hangar One vodka in 2001. Hangar One was sold to Proximo April 2010, but they continued to craft the vodka at their distillery in Alameda California until the summer of 2014. Now after their four year non compete is over, St George is back in the vodka crafting business. Their California Citrus is made with Valencia Oranges, Seville Oranges, and Bergamot Oranges grown on the Lindcove family ranch in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Bergamot Oranges are native to Southern Italy where over 80% are grown. The Valencia, and Seville Oranges, and the peel from the Bergamot oranges are each infused separately with a non GMO base spirit. Each is then distilled separately and then blended together. After filtering it is bottled at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum
Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum was introduced May 2009. It is one of 15 flavored rums they create in Puerto Rico. They start with molasses and a single strain of yeast, Le Levadura Bacardi and ferment for 30 hours in closed fermentation tanks. After fermentation the fermented rum is divided with some column and some beer distilled. They are aged separately in lightly charred American white oak barrels previously used to age bourbon. Once mature the rums are blended and filtered through a mix of charcoal made from tropical woods and coconut shells. It is then infused with natural flavors including strawberry and dragon fruit before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Pearl Pomegranate Vodka
Pearl Pomegranate vodka was the first pomegranate flavored vodka when it was introduced December 2005. It was originally called Pearl Persephone. It is one of 18 flavored vodka’s they craft in micro batches in Alberta Canada with pure water from Canadian Rocky Mountain streams and soft Canadian winter wheat. The vodka is distilled 5 times and filtered 6 times before natural flavors including pomegranate are infused. Read more