Happy New Year from The Bourbon Show! Steve, Seth and Evan submit their entries for the best release of 2016. Based on a listener poll, a winner is chosen.

Merry Christmas from The Bourbon Show!  The boys select their favorite Christmas movies.  The movies are bracketed and chosen to determine the greatest Christmas movie of all-time.  Period.  Steve sips High West's A Midwinter Night's Dram, Evan drinks a Death By Coconut while Seth mixes up a little Evan Williams Egg Nog.  Happy Holidays!

Author Jenna Brownson joins the show along with defending bourbon trivia champ, Alica White.  Evan and Seth try to take the crown while Steve moderates the madness.  It's a close game but there is a new champ in town.

Pat Heist of Wilderness Trail Distillery in Danville, Ky joins the show.  He discusses their recent expansion, the products they're producing and aging as well as how Wilderness Trail got its start. Pat also schools the guys on the science behind Ferm Solutions, a leading research, product development, engineering and technical service provider to the distilled spirits industry that he helped start.  The boys drink Old Grand Dad Bottled in Bond and Seth reviews Heritage Distilling Brown Sugar Bourbon.

It's a bourbon bucketlist episode!  Steve, Seth and Evan are joined by guest Heather Bean of Syntax Spirits.  Each share their bourbon-specific bucket lists items.

President of Independent Stave Company and Fourth-generation cooper Brad Boswell joins the show to discuss the company's history, their stave and cooperage processes, the company's global presence and the effects that barrels impart on the spirts that are stored in them.  The boys enjoy Jefferenson's Reserve and Seth reviews Boone County Distilling's Eighteen 33 bourbon.