Binny's Blog

This week, the the Barrel to Bottle team is joined by Brett and Joe from The Whiskey Hotline to interview Ryan Maybee, who in 2014 resurrected Kansas City's J. Rieger distillery.

Seasons Greetings from Binny's and the Barrel to Bottle Crew! This week, we're talking about the best part of Christmas: winter beers, of course.

2018 has been another great year for cigars. We have seen some truly remarkable sticks hit the shelf here at Binny’s and it’s time for your local Cigar Consultants to weigh in on the best of the best.

If you take out all the glamorous wine categories…Binny’s Wine Buyer Bill N. is responsible for everything else. One of his favorite categories is Port, which is getting extra attention for the release of the 2016 vintage

To celebrate our 70th Anniversary, we headed to Firestone Walker’s Barrelworks facility, home to their award winning wild and sour ales. Our goal - to blend California terroir with a tropical treasure of the Midwest, the paw paw fruit.

Each year, our buyers taste thousands of products. Some are brand new, some are returning items. Some good, some bad, some absolutely fantastic.

Cabernet is king, especially during the holidays. The full Barrel to Bottle team is in the house, joined by Binny's Wine Buyer Bill N., to talk through everything California Cabernet Sauvignon, tasting samples from Sonoma to Napa.

If you’ve been to one of Ballast Point’s locations out in San Diego, you know they have always been big on R&D. After a recent visit to their Chicago location, we’re happy to report that research and development is alive and well at this captivating new space in Fulton Market.

We had a lot of fun putting together a mix of flavors we thought fully embodied the holiday spirit. We went with bourbon as the base and added in ingredients you may have available on your bar cart for an easy, but delightfully tasteful cocktail.

Autumn brings the annual hop harvest, which means it’s time for fresh-hopped beer! Roger leads the Barrel to Bottle team through a flight of everything hoppy, from single hop pale ales through fresh hopped IPA’s.