Tonight the Gentlemen shoot their final shot with BOTH the Final Four and Championship Matchups taking the court. Tonight will be Fatal Four-Way style with all 4 teams going head to head to head to head! #1 Seed JT Meleck High Proof, #3 Seed Four Roses Small Batch Select, #3 Seed Texas Tail's Coastline Four Grain Bourbon and #4 Seed Green River Full Proof will all step onto the court at the same time with no matchups, no rules and no clue what's going to happen! Play by Play brought to you from the soothing voice of Full-Bodied with Color Commentary by Eric the Beard Bernard. Take one look around the stadium and you'll see crazed fans like Smooth all decked out in their fan gear! Let's go courtside and take you LIVE to all the action! By the end of the night we will CROWN our 2025 Whiskey Madness CHAMPION!
#FunctionYourWay #FGFamily #MarchMadness #Bourbon #Whiskey #Rye #BourbonBracket #WhiskeyMadness
Tonight the Gentlemen shoot their shot with the Dallas Region taking the court. #1 Seed Still Austin Cask Strength Bourbon takes on #4 K.Luke Batch 11 Cask Strength Bourbon in the marquee matchup of the night. Then we move on to our next matchup pitting #2 Redwood Empire Grizzly Beast BiB against #3 Texas Tail Distillery Coastline Four Grain Bourbon. Play by Play brought to you from the soothing voice of Full-Bodied with Color Commentary by Eric the Beard Bernard. Take one look around the stadium and you'll see crazed fans like Smooth all decked out in their fan gear! Let's go courtside and take you LIVE to all the action! The winner of this round will give us our second FINAL FOUR MATCHUP as they will take on Green River Full Proof Bourbon!
#FunctionYourWay #FGFamily #MarchMadness #Bourbon #Whiskey #Rye #BourbonBracket #WhiskeyMadness
Tonight the Gentlemen shoot their shot with the Austin Region taking the court. #1 Seed Balcones Lineage takes on #4 Jack Daniel's SiB Barrel Proof Rye in the marquee matchup of the night. Then we have a matchup pitting a Hall of Fame Distiller in Texas with Kentucky Roots taking on an OG that everyone knows and loves as #2 Milam & Greene Very Small Batch tries to not get upset by #3 Four Roses Small Batch Select! Play by Play brought to you from the soothing voice of Full-Bodied with Color Commentary by Eric the Beard Bernard. Take one look around the stadium and you'll see crazed fans like Smooth all decked out in their fan gear! Let's go courtside and take you LIVE to all the action! The winner of this round will give us our first FINAL FOUR MATCHUP as they will take on JT Meleck High Proof!#FunctionYourWay #FGFamily #MarchMadness #Bourbon #Whiskey #Rye #BourbonBracket #WhiskeyMadness
Tonight the Gentlemen shoot their shot with the Beaumont Region taking the court. #1 Seed Heaven Hill's JW Dant takes on #4 Green River Full Proof Bourbon in the marquee matchup of the night. Then we have a matchup pitting the HOTTEST NEW name in the game taking on an OG that everyone knows and loves as #2 Penelope Wheated tries to not get upset by #3 Old Forester 1920! Play by Play brought to you from the soothing voice of Full-Bodied with Color Commentary by Eric the Beard Bernard. Take one look around the stadium and you'll see crazed fans like Smooth all decked out in their fan gear! Let's go courtside and take you LIVE to all the action!#FunctionYourWay #FGFamily #MarchMadness #Bourbon #Whiskey #Rye #BourbonBracket #WhiskeyMadness
Tonight the Gentlemen shoot their shot with the Conroe Region taking the court. #1 Seed JT Meleck High Proof takes on #4 Wild Turkey Rare Breed in the marquee matchup of the night. Then an all Texas matchup is on deck with North Texas being well represented as #2 Bendt Distilling Unbendt Rye Bottled-In-Bond tries to not get upset by #3 Ironroot Republic Saints Alley Port & Cognac Finish Bourbon! Play by Play brought to you from the soothing voice of Full-Bodied with Color Commentary by Eric the Beard Bernard. Take one look around the stadium and you'll see crazed fans like Smooth all decked out in their fan gear! Let's go courtside and take you LIVE to all the action!
Tonight, the Gentlemen reveal the "teams" that will compete for the March Madness Championship! This will be the biggest Bourbon Bracket we've done to date and we cannot wait to get into the matchups! We'll reveal the Top 4 Seeds for each division and then a random drawing will determine matchups and fill out the rest of the bracket. Who's in? Who will be left out? How will the matchups shake out? Will there be a Cinderella story? Can a top seed take it all? Join us live as we figure out what bottles will be chosen for each distillery - as we reveal the distillery we'll need your help in the comments as we talk through what expression will represent that distillery! Grab your favorite pour of whiskey, light up your favorite cigar and turn on the show! Let's kick off this weekend the only way we know how, with a #FunctionalFriday!
Let's kick of the weekend the only way we know how, with a #FunctionalFriday! Tune in, chime into the comments, pour your favorite #Bourbon, light up that #CIgar and let's talk about the dirtier side of the #WhiskeyBusiness
Tonight we are joined by Friend of the Show Eric Bernard as we KICKOFF Big Game Weekend the only we know how...by trying not to go OFF THE RAILS (too far). We'll have some great pours, maybe a cigar or 2 and always a ton of fun conversation! So join in, be apart of the show in the comments and let's do this Friday night right!
Tune into the show tonight as we kick off the weekend as always with a #FunctionalFriday! We'll talk a little bit about our experience at Still Austin Whiskey Co. picking a Single Barrel with some awesome friends - Sips at the Lodge, The Whiskey Idiots and of course Chuck. And of course conversation from there depends on y'all so join in the conversation and let's get this weekend rolling!!! Grab your favorite Still Austin expression of #bourbon #whiskey or #rye and dive into the comments! Be sure to like and subscribe.
Tune in, join the conversation and let's have a great night as Michael Wright of SETX WhiskeyFest joins us to recap everything that happened from the Sponsorship Dinner on Friday night to putting on the LARGEST charitable Whiskey Festival in Texas!!! As always, grab a bottle of #Whiskey from your favorite distillery that was out at WhiskeyFest, light up a #Cigar and let's do what we always do on Friday...have an awesome kick off to the weekend!
WE ARE JOINED BY HUGE NAMES!
- JD Whittemore of LuxCo
- Brent Elliot, Master Distiller of Four Roses
- Barry Brinegar, Co-Owner and Jarrad Gollihue aka Dr. Wood of RD1 DistilleryJoin us live from inside the Beaumont Civic Center as vendors are setting up for tonight's SETX WhiskeyFest event benefitting Cure Rare Disease! This is Year 3 for both WhiskeyFest and us together to bring y'all exclusive inside access before it gets crazy tonight! We hope you'll join in the conversation, ask questions and help make this event amazing!
WE'RE BACK BABY! The Gentlemen are finally back together on our Functional Friday shenanigans! After a 2 week hiatus we are recapping the holiday season and diving right into 2025. Be sure to join us tonight with a glass of whiskey and good cigar, chime in on the comments and let's kick this year off the right way - OFF THE RAILS as usual!
Join us on this #SundayFunday as Michael Wright of SETX WhiskeyFest visits us live in studio to discuss all things Batch 003. We'll discuss everything ticket holders can expect, who might be there and why you need to be there! SETX WhiskeyFest takes place January 11th, 2025 at the Beaumont Civic Center so be sure to get your tickets soon at www.setxwhiskeyfest.com/tickets - you don't want to wait much longer and they'll make great gifts for the whiskey lover in your life!
Join us on this #SundayFunday as we recap our 2024 SZN! We'll discuss plans going into the holidays, what we've been up to, what we're looking forward to going into 2025 and all the things! Our #DrinkOfTheWeek will feature 3 different "holiday" finished whiskey's! The #SmokeOfTheWeek pays homage to the red and green color's we associate with Christmas from our good friends over at Heart of a Lion Cigar Co! Let's take this year-end completely off the rails! Next week we'll have a special guest in studio to discuss SETX Whiskey Fest!
Join The Gentlemen as we KICK OFF the weekend with a friendly, functional Bourbon Battle of Kentucky vs. Texas! Light up a cigar, grab your favorite bourbons from 2 different states and let's have a great time tonight!
Tonight the Gentlemen try to figure if what we drink our whiskey out of really makes much of a difference. Find a random glass or 2 (or 15 like we did), pour some whiskey and let's see what each style brings to the table versus a traditional Glencairn! Let's kick this weekend off the only way we know how to...in FUNCTIONAL fashion!
Join us LIVE tonight as we kick off the weekend the only way we know how! Our Smoke of the Week and Drink of the Week are BOTH WELLER themed as we go full TATER tonight. We'll be working our way through ENTIRE Weller Lineup while enjoying a Cohiba x Weller Cigar (2024 Edition - Blue Tube). Tune in and Chime in with your thoughts on this lineup from Buffalo Trace Distillery - have you had all of them? what's your favorite Weller? is this a rainbow worth chasing?
Join us tonight on this Functional Friday to kick off the weekend! We light things up with our Smoke of the Week! Then we dive into a Drink of the Week that we're both looking forward to...we are reviewing Angel's Envy's newest release Triple Oak! Angel's Envy has long held a special place with Roy & Bucky as one of the OG Finished Bourbon's that got them rolling with a lot of this whiskey stuff and it's just plain DERICIOUS! As it turns to Gentlemen After Dark, we will cut loose and just hang out with y'all! So tune in, fill up the comments and let's have a great time after taking a much needed weekend away last week!
It's another SUNDAY FUNDAY with the Gentlemen! Today we are joined by not 1, but 2 awesome Friends of the Show! So it's definitely a special twist on our normal SMOKE and DRINK of the Week! Lucas Perks, Founder of Ghostwood Distilling Co will join us LIVE in-studio while Sherjuan Mims, Founder of Heart of a Lion Cigar Co. joins via Collab Cam. We give a BIG nod to our FULL-Bodied co-host Roy as we celebrate his birthday today since we're all together! Turn some football on the tv, grab your phone/tablet or laptop to fire up the Functional Gentlemen, pour a a glass of Ghostwood Blended Bourbon, light a stick in honor of our resident cigar guy and let's have a great Sunday afternoon!!!Thank you to our Sponsors and Friends of the Show: 10th Mountain Whiskey & Spirits, Ghostwood Distilling Co, Heart of a Lion Cigar Co, Longhorn Liquor and Texas Tail Distillery! We are extremely thankful for all the support given to us over the last couple years and couldn't think of a better group of show sponsors!
Tonight is a special episode as we have Jake from Sips At The Lodge joining us! It's always great when we can hang out with #FriendsOfTheShow because that's really what this is all about right? Kickin' back on a Friday night, during whiskey drop szn, sharing a couple pours and stories...just waiting on the liquor store to open! We invite you to do the same - pour up a nice ALLOCATED bourbon, light up a cigar of your choice, tune in and chime in with your own stories!Thank you to all of our sponsors for helping make this show possible - 10th Mountain Whiskey & Spirit Co, Ghostwood Whiskey, Texas Tail Distillery, Heart of a Lion Cigar Co and Longhorn Liquor! More than sponsors, we do this with these people because they're our friends and have truly supported us throughout this whole crazy thing...the least we can do is support them and ask y'all to do the same!
