It’s the not-so-sweet 16th episode of the Idaho Booze Podcast! In this week’s episode, Warn Cocktail Company co-owners Adrienne and Danny Warn pop in to teach me all about bitters and the amazing products they are making in Idaho. Adrienne gets behind the bar to show off her mixology skills and makes a couple of tasty cocktails with Warn’s syrups and bitters (recipes below). Then I offer a full recap of the Hoptober Freshtival (easy for you to say) with reviews of the beers and ciders that I tried. Finally, in Brew News, it was an up and down week for the Idaho adult beverage scene as our Abbey closes but there’s a Ruckus in the Treasure Valley.

Cocktail Recipes

Burnt Sugar Old Fashioned

1 oz Warn Reserve Barrel Aged Burnt Sugar Syrup

4 dashes Warn Reserve West 509 Bitters

2 oz Bourbon

Stir in glass with ice until chilled, serve on big rock. For garnish, express orange peel over the drink and glass and add that plus one cocktail cherry. For some spice, sub 2 dashes West 509 with 2 dashes of Warn Reserve Chili Lime bitters.

Huckleberry Whiskey Sour

1 oz Warn Reserve Huckleberry Syrup

2 dashes Warn Reserve Lavender Bitters

1 egg white

2 oz Whiskey

Dry shake egg white. Add ice, bitters, syrup, and whiskey. Shake until cold—strain into a glass straight up or with one big rock. Garnish with a cocktail cherry and lemon twist.

Brew News

Help Breweries Destroyed by Helene Here and Here.

Western Collective Shuts Downtown House of Western

Ruckus Brewing Opening in Garden City

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