Awesome Drinks

Fill their stocking with something that’ll take the edge off the family visit this holiday season with one of these Christmas stockings which holds a plentiful 2.25 liter portion of your favorite drink. Order by 12/20 to receive by Xmas eve.

An aromatic, slightly sweet spin on Crown’s spicy spirit, blending Madagascar bourbon vanilla with Canadian whiskey. It’s perfect with coffee and cream, in a mule, or in an Old Fashioned minus the sugar. Try a 50/50 mix of Crown Deluxe and Crown Vanilla for a treat.

Sweet, smoky and effortlessly drinkable, Tres Papalote Mezcal is distilled from the wild cupreata agave plant found in a remote Mexican mountainside using a family recipe. Also, if it’s good enough for brand ambassador Cheech Marin, then it’s good enough for us.

If there’s one bourbon we must always have stocked in our bar, it’s this one. A wonderfully smooth, perfectly balanced, and daily drinkable whiskey from select barrels of 8-to-12 year aged spirits. Its new bottle better reflects how special the spirit inside truly is.

Stay festive and slightly buzzed in the 24 days leading up to Xmas with an assortment of tiny bottles of booze. Includes a variety of gin, whiskey, and flavored vodka. New to the selection this year, a yummy brown sugar bourbon.

Want to expand your cocktail repertoire? Shaker & Spoon has got you covered. Each month, they prepare a box filled with unique and flavorful ingredients, along with three specialty recipes, and enough mixers for 12 drinks. Just add spirits.

Give yourself a boost of energy with a shot of espresso, any time and any place. Steamm’s hand-pulled 2oz. shots come from organic beans, have a touch of raw cacao, and are slightly sweetened with organic stevia or cane sugar. They’re super delicious with milk too.

Celebrate the Empire’s rule with The Fowndry’s Stormtrooper decanter and shot glass. Both products are based on the molds that Andrew Ainsworth to create the stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars: A New Hope. The decanter holds up to 750ml of liquid.

In all honesty, we we’re pretty cynical about yet another pumpkin spice flavored thing, but Captain Morgan’s latest spiced rum concoction is truly delicious. You’ll want to sip this spirit all the time, not just in the Fall. Great alone, with apple cider, or ginger beer and lime.

Packets of small batch-roasted coffee beans. The packet doubles as a filter; all you need is a mug and some hot water to enjoy fresh coffee on the go. Libra uses part of its proceeds to donate water filters to indigent communities in Guatemala, where it gets its beans.

Are you having a bad day? Did guided meditation fail you? What you need is a warm and soothing cup of tea. This caffeine-free herbal tea blends chamomile, licorice, lemon, and an ample helping of nonchalance to help you forget whatever is stressing you out.

(PG-13: Language) 2 Chainz checks out a pair of the most expensivest coffeemaking machines, test tastes coffee that’s made from beans pooped out by civets, and schools us on the bougetity way of drinking. Seriously though, screw that price tag.

Orphan Barrel’s exquisitely smooth 84-proof whisky has spent 28 years aging in oak, building a complex and layered character which reminds us of autumn, with a big, woody body, notes of candy corn, pepper, clove, and zesty citrus peel.

Stanley’s mug-shaped vacuum insulated growler has a latching lid that’s easier to open than a screw-on top. But it still keeps drinks hot, cold or carbonated for up to 9 hours. It carries up to 24oz of liquid.

The Gentleman and Scholar old fashioned cocktail kit is the perfect gift for whiskey or brandy lover in your life. Includes two double old fashioned glassses, two bitters, a stainless steel muddler, an ice sphere mold, and a cocktail garnishing tool.

American beer store Hopsy licensed Krups’ Keurig-like draft beer dispenser for a convenient delivery service. The HomeTap lets you enjoy a variety of beer from micro breweries with its proprietary 2L bottle, which can be stored in a fridge when not in use.

Cocktail Chemistry Lab walks us through the rather involved process of making this unique whiskey drink, whose centerpiece is an ice orb filled with smoke, which is cracked open at serving time. Ice ball instructions here.

Bartender Philip Traber could barely reach the top of his stack of glasses to fill them with the Jägermeister, but in the end, he managed to carefully fill all 17 of his shot glasses, and dunk them into the Red Bull with flair – besting his previous world’s record.

Collected Coffee searches the globe for the world’s most notable whole bean coffees. Each month, subscribers receive a bag of specialty coffee with a detailed description both the beans and its roaster, along with a suggested preparation method for optimal flavor.

A look behind the scenes at Louisville, Kentucky’s Kelvin Cooperage. The family-owned plant handmakes new oak barrels for aging bourbon and wines. The barrels may only be used once for bourbons, but will live on for many years providing a home for other spirits.

Golchi has three compartments, two of which are insulated, so it can hold two different drinks at once plus a small amount of food, powder, etc. You can also use the insulated compartments as a single container or on their own, with or without the third compartment.

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about cocktails, wine, and even making beer with this series of online courses from The Awesomer Shop. There’s over 80 lessons in all to teach you mixology, home brewing, and oenology. A $1500+ value.

While searching at Dickel’s Tennessee distillery for barrels of 9-year-old whisky, distiller Allisa Henley stumbled across a cache of barrels filled with this nectar of the gods. It’s rich, sweet, with tons of vanilla and oak. For now, you’ll need to visit Cascade Hollow if you want one.