Review: Inspiro Luna Blanco Tequila
Inspiro Luna Blanco Tequila was released October 2021. It was created by former Chicago attorney Mara Smith and Master Distillery Ana Maria Romero Mena. Inspiro takes it’s name from the Spanish word for inspired. Inspiro is made from 100% Blue Weber agave. The hand harvested and trimmed the pinas are slow cooked in stainless steel autoclaves. Once cooled the pinas are crushed and shredded to extract the sweet juice. Two different yeasts are added in separate fermentation tanks. Once fermented the tanks are blended. The spirit is double distilled in alembic stills and rested for 30 days in stainless steel tanks before it spends a lunar quarter in American oak barrels and bottled additive free. Read more 
Review: Hard Truth Original Vodka
Hard Truth Original Vodka is hand crafted from wheat on a Vendome Copper & Brass Works still in Nashville Indiana. They began distilling spirits in 2015 on the second floor of their Big Woods Restaurant before moving to a state of the art distillery in 2017. The 18,000 square foot distillery is surrounded by 325 acres of native forests. They currently craft about a dozen spirits including gin, whiskey, flavored whiskey, rum, flavored rum, cream liqueurs, vodka, and flavored vodka. Read more
Review: Spindrift Spiked Sparkling Water Variety Pack
Spindrift Spiked Sparkling Water was launched April 2021 with a limited release in the Boston, Los Angeles, and San Diego markets. Distribution has since expanded. What sets Spindrift apart from the other hard seltzers on the market today is the absence of “natural flavors” on their ingredients list. While natural flavors certainly sound good, there are over 3000 chemical food additives that are classified as natural flavors. Spindrift was the first sparkling water made with real squeezed fruit when it was introduced in 2010. They have followed the same formula with Spindrift Spiked, as each 12 oz. slim can is made with real squeezed fruit. Spindrift Spiked is made from an alcohol fermented from cane sugar base, and real fruit juice. Read more
Review: Quirk Tropical Breeze Mix Pack
Boulevard Brewing Company released the Quirk Tropical Breeze Mix Pack March 2022. This is their third hard seltzer 4 flavor 12 can variety pack. Boulevard entered the hard seltzer market with the release of Quirk Spiked & Sparkling May 2020. At some point they dropped the Spiked & Sparkling in favor of Hard Seltzer. Quirk Hard Seltzer is made at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City Missouri from a traditional sugar alcohol base with natural flavors and 1% fruit juice. Quirk Passionfruit Orange has 2% real fruit juice. Read more
Review: Dented Brick Craft Vodka
Dented Brick Craft Vodka is made from 100% locally grown corn and artesian well water that flows clean and pure from the Wasatch Mountains. The vodka and distillery are named for the well driller who was killed in a gunfight that left impressions in the bricks of his house. Some of those bricks were used to build the Dented Brick Distillery in South Salt Lake City. Marc Christensen opened the distillery March 2016 with the launch of his first spirit, Antelope Island Rum. Today they craft over a dozen spirits including vodka, gin, rum, and whiskey. Dented Brick Craft Vodka is distilled on a custom Vendome Copper & Brass Works still, then filtered, and bottled onsite. Read more
Review: White Claw REFRESHR Lemonade
White Claw REFRESHR Lemonade will soon be arriving at your favorite adult beverage locations. This is Mark Anthony Brands second hard seltzer lemonade. They launched Mikes Hard Lemonade Seltzer January of 2021, driven by the success of Truly Hard Seltzer Lemonade and the 10% hard seltzer market share they achieved in their first year. One things for sure, the growth of hard seltzer has been driven by product innovation, and if one brand finds success, another will soon follow. Currently there are over a dozen hand seltzer lemonade variety packs on the market, but the White Claw name opens a lot of doors and if space is limited, a local or region hard seltzer brand will lose their shelf or cooler space. Each 12 ounce slim can is made from a cane sugar alcohol base, with natural flavors, cane sugar, and 1% natural lemon juice concentrate. Read more
Review: Dented Brick Craft Gin
Dented Brick Craft Gin is made using a cold maceration process where the highest quality botanicals including juniper berries, coriander, fennel, citrus peel, and angelica roots are stepped in cold high-proof grain spirits made from 100% corn. The spirit is then re-distilled to clarify the genever, and brought to proof using pure artesian limestone filtered water that starting as snowmelt from the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. The water is sourced from a 300 foot deep well. Dented Brick Craft Gin is one of four spirits in their premium line of well spirits. Read more
Review: Bud Light Seltzer Cocktail Hour
Bud Light Seltzer Cocktail Hour was released April 25, 2022. This is a limited release seltzer that will be sold through the summer. As the name would imply this is Bud Light’s cocktail inspired hard seltzer. This appears to be a relaunch of last years, Bud Light Seltzer Out of Office variety pack. This year’s Cocktail Hour variety pack has the same flavors with the exception of Tropical Punch replacing last years Mango Mai Tai. Each of the four flavors found in this 12 can variety pack weigh in with 100 calories 5% alcohol, 0 sugar, and 2 carbs. Like the other Bud Light seltzers the Bud Light Cocktail Hour flavors are made from a cold fermented cane sugar alcohol base with natural flavors, and malted rice. Each flavor of Bud Light Seltzer Cocktail Hour also contains sucralose. Read more
Review: Suzies Organic Hard Seltzer Beach Pack
Suzies Hard Seltzer was launched July 2020 by Chris Barhyte. They currently produce three variety packs of hard seltzer including their Beach Pack, Mountain Pack, and Suzies Loaded Hard Seltzer pack, their higher octane cocktail influenced seltzer that tips the scales with 9.5% alcohol. Today we are reviewing Suzies Beach Pack. Suzie’s starts with water sourced from the Blue Mountains of Northeast Oregon. The water is carbonated, and blended with organic alcohol from organic cane sugar and flavor specific organic natural flavors. Each 12 ounce slim can weighs in with 100 calories and 5% alcohol. Read more
Review: Warrior Peanut Butter Cup Whiskey
Warrior Peanut Butter Cup Whiskey was launched May 2020 by former vet Rich Clemson and his wife Mary. They sold their business, Pasta USA, in 2006 and instead of retiring they looked for their next challenge. Their previous business gave them several grain based connections so the decided to start crafting spirits. By December 2017 they were producing vodka and gin at their Liquid Brands Distillery, built in a 7500 square foot renovated warehouse in East Spokane Washington. They currently produce 22 spirits including several whiskey’s, vodka’s, and gins. The whiskey base is made from locally sourced corn grown in Palouse Hills Washington. Once distilled in their custom build still the whiskey rests in new American white oak barrels. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Read more