Binny's Blog

Hawaii's remote beauty presents interesting challenges for a distillery, but Kolo'a has been at it for 13 years now. Barrel to Bottle sits down to talk with founder Bob Gunter.

Blast off with with the fruity, frozen Saturn cocktail, a refreshing combination of gin, passionfruit liqueur and citrus.

We like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. Check out this recipe for a frozen piña colada made with fresh chunks of pineapple.

Check out this recipe for frozen strawberry daiquiris from our resident mixologist. The key to a great daiquiri is fresh ingredients.

This riff on the classic tiki cocktail turns it into a fizzy tall drink with the help of Fever Tree Grapefruit and Lime-Yuzu sodas. The Bigger Bamboo is a cocktail of uncompromising quality from top to bottom.

One episode just wasn’t enough to cram in all the flavor-blasted products on Binny’s shelves. So we’re back with part two, focusing on spirits.

The temperatures are plummeting after a relatively warm start to the winter season. There’s no better time to whip up some hot cocktails to get you through the grey winter days and long, dark winter nights.

We have twelve…yes twelve…100 proof bourbons to sample today on Barrel to Bottle. Pat just couldn’t help himself; once he started picking, he just couldn’t bear to leave something out. Once again, we’re blind tasting, which is the best way to taste anything.

Join The Whiskey Hotline and Journeyman founder Bill Welter for a virtual tasting of the Southwest Michigan distillery's whiskies.

We aren’t talking about “the” perfect Manhattan, some might argue that the incredibly popular sweet Manhattan already holds that title, but “a” Perfect Manhattan. A variation on the theme that has the maker replace half of the Sweet Vermouth with Dry Vermouth. This perfect 1:1 ratio of Vermouths is the origin of the name.