My Tiny Bottles with Tammy Coxen Podcast
1) #121 McGuinness Creme de Menthe
This bottle of McGuinness Creme de Menthe from the 1970s took me on a fascinating journey through the history of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, or LCBO. From permit books and interdiction lists ...Show More
2) Tasting Irish Mist with Brian Nisbet
In my last episode I talked about the many fantastic stories behind a bottle of Irish Mist. Now I get to find out what’s inside it, as I taste Grandma’s late 1980s to 1990s bottle of Irish Mist with m...Show More
3) #120 Irish Mist
They say Ireland is a land of stories, and so too is Bottle #120: Irish Mist. I’ve talked about a lot of liqueurs with mythological origin stories on My Tiny Bottles, and this one has all the rest of ...Show More
4) #119 Marie Brizard Blackberry Liqueur
Since I've already told the origin story of the Marie Brizard brand in a previous episode, I took this one in a different direction! Blackberry Liqueur is also known as Creme de Mure, and that's a key...Show More
5) Tasting Goldschlager with John Coxon
In a deep cultural exchange, my friend and late 90s college kid John Coxon shares with me his love of Goldschlager, as we compare grandma's mini to the modern stuff, complain about how much less gold ...Show More
6) Reveal #23
This was a fun little assortment, with one bottle with a very unusual shape and feel, a rum that got Tammy very excited (and another that didn’t), and more fascinating bottles from around the world.Ch...Show More
7) #118 Silk Tassel
Grandma's collection had a lot of Canadian whisky and my explorations of the genre continue with Bottle #118: Silk Tassel from McGuinness Distilling. This turned out to be a really good bottle to talk...Show More
8) Tasting Carleton Tower & Canadian Club Classic
My friend Jered brought me a fascinating bottle of Canadian Whisky from his parent’s cellar, so we had to taste it along with some of Grandma’s tiny bottles. Carleton Tower was a premium whiskey produ...Show More
9) Tasting Monnet Cognac with Christine Cooney
In this episode I taste both of Grandma's tiny bottles of Monnet Cognac with Christine Cooney, co-owner of Heavenly Spirits Imports (and a French knight! ). Heavenly Spirits is the US importer for Mon...Show More
10) #111-117: Catching Up!
This is a little bit of a different episode! As I've been working my way through Grandma's collection I've come across a few duplicate and near-duplicate bottles. I didn't know what to do with them, s...Show More