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Acquired Tastings

Josh Mills and John Mills

Father and son duo creating tasting episodes on wine, beer, spirits, and cocktails.

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  • 165 episodes
  • Updated Nov 21, 2024

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  • Apr 13, 2023 · 56 min

    Italian White wine!

    Josh and Dad sip Italian white wine for this episode in preparation of his upcoming trip to Italy. Dad brings Soave from Tenuta Santa Maria; Gaetano Bertani's family Vineyard. This is a DOC wine. For his snacks he has Laughing Cow cheese, Lean Cuisine's Chicken Fettucine and Lemon Meringue pie. Josh has from the producer, Luna Gaia in Sicilia; Mandricardo Catarrato. This a IGP wine. For his sides he has a lemon garlic squid ink pasta and Chocolate chip cannoli.

  • Apr 6, 2023 · 47 min

    Smoked Cocktails!

    Josh and Dad do smoked Cocktails! Not to be confused with "smoke in the glass". Dad does his original smoked Old Fashioned. Dad for his early birthday bought a glass top smoker for cocktails. It uses a butane torch which used different woods to smoke your cocktails. He patterned his old Fashioned from Steve-O Shepard's Old Fashioned. He used oak wood to smoke his cocktail. Josh does a smoked pear and apple martini! He started by infusing only one element. He infused applewood smoke into white vermouth that he had added crushed apples into the vermouth . He used Contratto Bianco Vermouth. When it was time to build the cocktail he added the infused ingredients into pear vodka. They talk about the different methods and the different woods you could use for the different possible cocktails. Write Acquiredtastings@gmail.com with your recipes!

  • Mar 30, 2023 · 52 min

    Josh and Dad do a Gin tasting!

    Josh brings the Barn Hill gin handcrafted in Vermont from Caledonia Spirits. He Brings honey macerated strawberries and blood orange fruit, Blood Orange cake with honey sugar icing and a Ponzu pork noddle bowl. Dad does the Malfy Con Arancia Italian gin. For his sides he did an Italian theme. He brought Italian dry sausage, Goat cheese with crackers, and mozzarella cheese wrapped Prosciutto. They have a great time sipping these tasty gins. They talked about JoAnne's Gin party using eight gins, eight snacks and two different cocktails with seven of her good friends.

  • Mar 23, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min

    Stout Beers

    Dad goes with the Chocolate Noir Stout from Prairie Artesian Ale Brewing in Oklahoma, City. He brings three sides Irish Whiskey Chips, His homemade BBQ ribs and Irish Porter cheddar cheese. Josh brings the Left Hand Brewing dry stout on Nitro. Josh brings from Fly Brewing their Duck Confit nostos, their cheddar bomb bugger that Josh added some corn beef "bacon". He also brought some limoncello cookies. Josh and Dad talk about the hard transition between Josh's beer pick at 4.3% ABV and Dad's that is 14.3%.

  • Mar 16, 2023 · 59 min

    Wines for you St Patrick's Day Feast

    Dad brings the Ron Rubin Pinot Noir from the Russia River AVA. He made the food for this podcast. He made Corn Beef and cabbage, carrots, new potatoes with soda bread. He also brought Irish cheddar, Dubliner stout cheese and a Rubin sandwich. Josh brings the Gruner Veltener wine from the Nikolaihof winery in Austria. The boys enjoy these wines paired with their St. Patrick's day podcast food. They enjoy talking, eating and sipping these wines. Are these wines choices wines you could bring to your St. Patrick's day feast? Listen to find out what the boys decide.

  • Mar 9, 2023 · 40 min

    Irish Cocktails

    With St. Patrick's day approaching Dad and Josh decide to do Irish cocktails. Josh does a Gallick flip. Josh explains a flip uses a whole egg! Dad does an Irish Eyes cocktail. The Irish Eyes recipe that he used causes the drink to be green! Dad brings some snacks for the boys to munch on as they sip. He brings Irish cheddar, Dubliner stout cheese, Corn Beef and some thousand Island dressing for dipping. Dad pulls out the Limericks.... and a surprise hidden on the cabinet behind Him!

  • Mar 2, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min

    Blended Whiskies

    Dad brings the Famous Grouse blended Scotch whisky. He brings very simple sides. He brings milk chocolate covered raisins, dates stuffed with cheese, almonds with maple syrup drizzled on them and dry hard Italian salami. Josh brings Compass Box artist Blend whisky. Josh brings for his sides Spaghetti alla Carbonara. He brings Antipasti including duck ham, bresaola with three cheeses; cheddar, parmesano, and goat cheese. For a sweet he brings oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. The boys enjoy talking about blended scotches and how either of these could be your entry level scotch. Nether have much smoke. Both of these have sister scotches to check out when you are ready. They are drinking these neat so you will know the profiles when you mix them in your cocktails.

  • Feb 23, 2023 · 1 hr 5 min

    Beers for Grilling

    Dad and Josh picked big beers for this Gilling Episode. Dad brings the "Sixth Glass" from Bouvard Brewing in Kansas City. His sides are BBQ potato chips, Gates rubbed Pork chop (with a secret ingredient) and last but not least a fudge brownie. Josh brings from his "beer corner" the 2022 bourbon barrel aged Love Honey Bock from Lost Forty Brewing in Little Rock, AR. His sides are coffee rubbed New York Strip steak, Italian seasoned chicken and his third was a grilled burger with goat cheese with other special fixing's including an English Muffin instead of a hamburger bun.

  • Feb 16, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    Wines from Valentine's Day

    Dad has bubbles this week! He has the Gerad Bertrand Crémant De Limoux Brut Rose' 2020. His sides are a shrimp cocktail, smoked salmon and a chocolate fudge cake. Josh brings from Ken Wright Cellars the Shea Vineyard 2021 Pino Noir. For his sides he has pork belly burnt ends, Chinese sticky brazed pork belly and two types of chocolates. He brought a Lindal's truffle and raspberry stuffed Portuguese chocolate. The boys have a great time talking about what foods and wines you can have with your Valentines meal. Josh talks about "Pulling out the Stops" for Valentines.

  • Feb 9, 2023 · 46 min

    Amero Cocktails

    Josh and Dad do cocktails that include Amaro's

  • Jan 19, 2023 · 1 hr 12 min

    Low Alcohol Wines

    Josh and Jordan enjoy low alcohol wines

  • Dec 15, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min

    Winter Warmers

    Dad and Josh enjoy Winter warmers in this Holiday season.

  • Dec 1, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min

    BIG REDS!

    Josh and Dad do big red wines.