WTF - Whiskey Tequila Fridays Podcast

Ep. 84: Celebrating In The Snow - Eagle Rare Single Barrel and El Tequileño 50th Anniversary Añejo

Pull up a seat and join the Boys as they pair up a couple of bottles that are worth celebrating. Did you know that the Eagle Rare name is fifty years old this year? Well, the Uncertified Whiskey Hunter knows and he’s excited to talk about it. Drew found a real ‘dusty’ on the shelf and it celebrates the 50 years of the El Tequileño distillery. 
It’s no coincidence that it’s getting close to Christmas, and these spirits are loaded with some sweet and spice and everything nice to warm your bellies and put a glow on your cheeks.
You might have a hard time finding these bottles, but that shouldn’t stop you from grabbing a whiskey and a tequila and sitting down and hanging with the Boys for a spell.
Hopefully this episode puts you in the Holiday Spirit and helps you Make It A Happy Friday!™
 

Ep. 83: Black Friday Beauties: Bardstown Bourbon Single Barrel and Maracame Tequila Plata

For this Black Friday Episode, the boys sip on Maracame Tequila Plata and a Bardstown Bourbon Single Barrel from the Sycamore Whiskey Club. One bottle had been on Drew’s shelf for 4 years, and the other bottle had been on Matt’s shelf for 4 days.
As usual, the conversation wanders between relevant and random things like the new Agave Matchmaker app to RoboCop and beyond.
The boys are busy spending the Thanksgiving break with their friends and families, and they hope you are as well. Black Friday sales abound, so grab a whiskey, a tequila, gather with friends and family, listen and sip along, and Make It A Happy Friday!™

Ep. 82: Turkey Day Treasures with Wild Turkey 101 8-Year and Tejitas Tequila Anejo

For this Thanksgiving-themed show, the Boys pair some Wild Turkey 101 8-Year with some Tejitas Anejo while they sip, discuss and laugh their way through one of their favorite holidays. Be sure to listen to the QuickSips™ for a little special twist.
No matter what you pour yourself, we ask that you take a moment to be thankful for all that you have, listen, sip along and Make It A Happy Friday!™

Ep. 81: Cocktails: Rittenhouse Rye and Tres Agaves Reposado

Today the Boys make more cocktails! After what may be the longest cold open in history, Matt brings a Rittenhouse Rye (Single Barrel from Bourbon Belly Group), Drew brings Tres Agaves Reposado (because the grocery store didn’t have what he originally wanted) and Joby brings his wonderful cover of Bobby McFerrin's “Don’t Worry Be Happy” (if you’re too young to remember Cocktail the movie, we’re sorry).  These concoctions are crushable sipping drinks you will want to try for your next get together.
So gather your mates, make some cocktails, listen and sip along, and Make It A Happy Friday!™ 

Ep. 80: Bonus Episode: Tom Hanks Geek Out

Happy Friday, Friends, and welcome to a special Bonus Episode of Whiskey Tequila Fridays!
It's no secret the Boys love Tom Hanks.  They talk about him almost every episode, but none of it makes the final cut.  Until today.
Today the Boys share two of those Tom Hanks Geek Outs from the many they have recorded!
So grab a bottle of whiskey, a bottle of tequila, invite your friends, listen and sip along, ponder the wonder that is Tom Hanks, and Make It A Happy Friday!™

Ep. 79: Spectacular Sippers featuring Laws Whiskey House Cask Strength Four Grain Bourbon Single Barrel and Gran Legado De Vida Tequila Reposado

For this Happy Friday, Matt brings a single barrel pick in collaboration with Malloy’s Finest and the Wheaton Whisky Club from the great state of Colorado. Drew brings a reposado that is anything other than “standard” from the great NOM 1123. 
They tangent a little with some current spirits news, with nothing more than some opinions and well wishes. When they finally get to the QuickSips™ - well - you’ll just have to listen to find out.
So invite your friends, sit down with a Laws whiskey, a Legado tequila, listen and sip along, and Make It A Happy Friday!™

Ep. 78: Beginner Buys 7 featuring Jim Beam Black and Tequila Cultura 100 Reposado

For this Beginner Buy the Boys pair a bourbon Matt cut his teeth on as a young whiskey wanderer - Jim Beam Black (now a 7 year aged stated bourbon) and a tequila Drew discovers has a mistaken label - Tequila Cultura 100 Reposado (actually 86 proof but with an original 80 proof label).
You may need to turn your volume up when the boys get a live FaceTime call while recording from Brad Niccum of Taste Tequila with Brad, while they try to solve the mystery of the mistaken label. The QuickSips™ are always good, but even better when the bottles are affordable, available and quality. So find these bottles, listen and sip along and Make It A Happy Friday! ™

Ep. 77: Ack-Ack-Ack - featuring Copper & Cask Armagnac Barrel Finished Whiskey and El Gran Legado De Vida Tequila Reposado finished in Cognac barrels

The Boys finally pair the remaining Great Lakes Tequila Club pick with a whiskey, and it definitely gets adventurous. Matt talks way too much about a type of whiskey that he is not that fond of (Canadian) while Drew reveals he knows too much about Costco’s rotisserie chicken profits.
If you stick to the end, you might hear the boys sip on some things that are not exactly whiskey and not exactly tequila. Something in the future, maybe?
Unless you are in the Chicago area, you might not get these exact bottles. However, the Boys invite you to find a whiskey and a tequila, invite your friends over, sip and listen along - and Make It A Happy Friday!™

Ep. 76: A Year in the Bottle featuring Michter's Unblended American Whiskey and Tequila Don Fulano Reposado

Well, y'all, today may be the day the Boys break the internet with a show that has never been done before.  The first of its kind.  
A little more than a year ago, the Boys opened two fresh bottles.  Matt uncorked a Michter's Unblended American Whiskey and Drew broke the seal on a Tequila Don Fulano Reposado.  They recorded that fresh neck pour and then put the bottles aside. 
But then they did what has never been done on any spirits podcast: They revisited them every few months, recording how the bottles changed over the course of a full year.
And so here it is, a full year in the making, the full arc of two spirits from neck pour to bottle kill!
The QuickSips™ are too numerous to describe, but believe me, the Boys found another beautiful pairing!
These bottles are on the shelf, so scoop 'em up, fill your cup, invite your friends, listen and sip along and Make It A Full Year Of Happy Fridays™!

Ep. 75: Embracing the Darkness featuring Old Forester Single Barrel from Slightly Toasted and Siempre Tequila Anejo

Today, the Boys imbibe on some bottles with bits of blackberry and barrel funk. Matt’s barrel strength bourbon was a purchase from Slightly Toasted in Chicago, and Drew’s Anejo was a gift from the folks at NOM 1414 at the Sabor y Cultura event in Chicago about a month ago.
Find some similar bottles, invite your buds, plop down, listen and sip along, and Make It A Happy Friday™!