Japanese Whisky with Chuck Johnson
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230728 Length: 00:41:07 Should we have recorded two shows in one night? Probably not. But Ape and Reba double-booked themselves and we are nothing if not professionals. Did you keep a straight face on that last part? Neither did I when I typed it. At any rate, here’s your foray into Japanese whisky and shenanigans. You’re Welcome. Japanese Whisky with Chuck Johnson Purchase details: Location: Gift Date: ??? Cost: $$ Type: Japanese Whisky Links for this episode 01:30 Ape is really trying to herd the cats…it doesn’t really work…not even with a paintball buzzer...
info_outline
Balcones Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230903 Length: 55:43 We thought we hadn’t had this one before. A discovery of an empty bottle suggests we were wrong. So, in this episode, Ape and Reba give Balcones its due – and discover some pretty cool stuff about what it means to be “Texas Whisky.” Balcones Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky Type: Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky Distillery: Balcones Distillery Bottled in: Waco, TX Proof: 46% / 92 proof Age: 2 years Links for this episode 01:00 Hurricane report, and moving the kids along 03:45 Introducing Balcones and shenanigans 15:30...
info_outline
Bonus Episode: The Drunk Guys and Cormac McCarthy
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20231220 Length: 02:12:48 Bonus Episode: The Drunk Guys and Cormac McCarthy The Drunk Guys Book Club Podcast invited the Bitches over to join their discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Not only did an amazing discussion happen, but the guys were nice enough to handle all the editing duties. So, Ape decided to take the gift and send it out to you just the way they sent it to her – with a quick hello added in so she could feel somewhat useful. So, I suppose you can call this a bonus episode. I love that y’all hang out here, but you should really go...
info_outline
Two Bitch Bourbon with Lauren Luby
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230809 Length: 01:01:01 In a long overdue episode, Ape and Reba had the privilege of discussing Two Bitch Bourbon with founder and fellow dog lover Lauren Luby. We recorded this episode back in August, and Ape takes full responsibility for the delay in getting it out. However, we are pretty sure this brilliant conversation with Lauren is well worth the wait! Two Bitch Bourbon Purchase details: Location: Two Bitch Bourbon website Date: 7/24/2023 Cost: $84.99 / $59.99 Type: - Two Bitch Bourbon...
info_outline
B&B Year Two Celebration - Happy New Year, Y'all
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20231227 Length: 00:43:53 B&B Year Two Celebration - Happy New Year, Y'all We were supposed to do one thing but ended up doing another thing. We just poured wine on it, and it worked out. Here’s to celebrating the Bitches year two. Happy New Year, y’all! Links for this episode (an invite from Ape) by Sarah Knight 01:00 So, this is a bit unexpected, but Happy New Year anyway! 02:00 Naked Wines get Ape love 04:00 Reba is a self-proclaimed “Basic Bitch” 05:00 Another round of “like what you like” 12:10 Clicking through the list of things we need...
info_outline
Redwood Empire Head Distiller, Lauren Patz
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230728 Length: 01:05:43 While Ape LOVES all her guests, this one has her really excited. We tried to keep it under and hour, but honestly, who couldn’t talk whiskey with Redwood Empire’s head distiller, Lauren Patz, all day? Redwood Empire Purchase details: Pipe Dream Lost Monarch Emerald Giant Type Bourbon Whiskey Blend Rye Location Jeff’s Beverage Jeff’s Beverage Jeff’s Beverage Date 4/29/23 4/29/23 4/29/23 Cost $37.99 $37.99 $37.99 Distillery In...
info_outline
Infinity Bottle #5 and Recap
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230725 Length: 00:45:33 Y’all. I don’t even know what to say…if you know, you know. Anyway, the best way to keep up with my completely erratic schedule, just subscribe to the show via your favorite podcast provider. So, here you go, the 5th Infinity Bottle episode with some podcast recaps. Infinity Bottle #5 and a B&B Recap Links for this episode 0:56 When is the appropriate time to say “Good morning” 2:00 It’s our 47th episode and the end of summer (yes, I know it didn’t get released until November. Whatever. 4:00 The Crown and how Ape got to the...
info_outline
All the Smoke - Iron Smoke Bourbon & Smokehead Scotch
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230712 Length: 39:47 Yes, yes that is the “Eye of the Tiger” playing in the opening. Did we change our theme music? No. But we did have a huge technical malfunction that caused Ape to cuss more than even she would publish on air. It took the most iconic franchise of all time (I said what I said, fight me) to get my mind right…but, it worked. We give you “Take 2.” P.S. Yes. I am aware I missed the opportunity to do the whole “One Bourbon, one Scotch, one Beer” thing. I wish I could tell you that it was on purpose because that would be legitimate; it’s...
info_outline
IslandJon Vodka
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230709 Length: 32:33 As we do from time to time, Ape and Reba venture into a drink that will not go into the Bitches & Bourbon Infinity bottle. Today, it’s vodka, IslandJon vodka, to be exact. This episode had a bunch of surprises including a surprise guest. IslandJon Vodka Purchase details: Location: Jeff’s Beverage Date: 10/22/2022 Cost: $19.99 Type: Vodka Distillery: IslandJon Distillery Bottled in: New Port Richey, FL Proof: (% ABV) 40 (Proof) 80 Links for this episode 01:15 Silva and Kobi are back with...
info_outline
Penelope Part II
Bitches & Bourbon
Originally recorded: 20230707 Length: 26:11 As the Bitches are sometimes wont to do, this conversation goes all over the place for a really long time. But, in true host fashion, Ape has cut it up, cleaned it out, and condensed a raucous evening into 26 minutes of moderately useful and entertaining-to-us content. Penelope Part II Purchase details: Location: Jeff’s Beverage Date: 5/01/2023 Cost: Architect - $60 Rose Cask -...
info_outlineSeason 4, Episode 36
Originally recorded: 12/12/2022
Length: 01:07:03
Three Dashes Bitters by Jack Simmons
We are missing Reba today, but welcome Ape’s daughter Rue, and Georgia Southern University Philosophy professor, playwright, and novelist, Dr. Jack Simmons. Jack joins the podcast to discuss cocktails. great Scotch, and his New Orleans set book Three Dashes Bitters.
Links for this episode
Three Dashes Bitters by Jack Simmons
00:01:40 Ape welcomes Rue and Dr. Jack Simmons to the show!
00:04:25 The conversation is Jack’s book, Three Dashes Bitters, and he brought Pimm’s
00:07:14 Insight into Jack’s thoughts about the writing process, the leisure class, and grad school
00:10:10 We love great character origin stories
00:13:50 Trying to guess the novel’s time period
00:15:40 As per usual, Ape has to slow down – she totally skipped the story overview. You aren’t surprised.
00:18:50 We discuss a difference of opinion about Tim (the main character), when to not give characters names, and the characterization of women and grad students.
00:27:40 How many stories can be in one book?
00:32:25 Jack gives the goods on the infamous double date storyline
00:39:30 Who is Roberto?
00:41:45 Putting the scenes into time perspectives
00:45:50 Getting comfortable with vulnerability
00:51:40 When it comes time to tell the truth about yourself
00:55:00 Who is Jane?
00:56:20 Why place and the contrast of places is important
01:01:00 Wrapping it up with Jack’s other projects and the boozy role call
Three Dashes Bitters
Author: Jack Simmons
Genre: Fiction
Published: 2019
Pages: 306
Description (from Goodreads)
When Tim Schmidt returns to New Orleans to attend his sister’s debutante ball, he finds that nothing has changed during his three-year hiatus in the orderly sanctuary of Boston.
He is still in love with Jane, a hard-drinking iconoclast, too well-bred to join the ranks of the Generation X slackers, yet unable to accept the standards of her high society upbringing. Happily, it seems Jane might still harbor feelings for him.
But over drinks at The Columns Hotel, things get messy, and Tim’s grand return to the city of his birth soon unravels—the very sort of thing that inspired Tim to leave NOLA in the first place.
With only twenty-four hours to figure out what to do (which has never been Tim’s forte), this former philosophy student finds unsolicited advice from members of a new leisure class. There is Milton, Tim’s college roommate turned Marxist revolutionary, a Falstaffian gent bent on overthrowing the government. Two young Arizona “brothers from another mother.” A disillusioned German exchange student who has abandoned the study of physics for the French Quarter social scene. And an Italian fellow who is a self-proclaimed master in the art of amore.
Picking up where Walker Percy (The Moviegoer) and John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces) left off, this wild romp presents New Orleans as an eternal city, whose characters exceed the vicissitudes of fortune, functioning instead as a universal canvas upon which individuals must struggle to carve out their existence. This is not the NOLA of Hurricane Katrina, political corruption, crime, tourism, or the home of jazz. Rather, Simmons adds to the literary œuvre of this Southern city, and Three Dashes Bitters captures a New Orleans defined only in the individuals we encounter—not the easy stereotypes that make individuality impossible.