My Tiny Bottles with Tammy Coxen

My Tiny Bottles with Tammy Coxen

Tammy Coxen explores the history of hundreds of tiny vintage liquor bottles that she inherited from her grandmother.

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March 29, 2023 2 min

Tammy faces a dilemma as she tells the story of this bottle of rum/rhum from Canada!

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/


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So far, I’ve revealed and researched 10 vintage tiny bottles but have yet to taste any. Until now. In my first-ever tasting episode, I sat down with Casey Miller, my favorite bartender at my favorite bar, The Last Word, to compare my tiny bottle of vintage Disaronno with its modern counterpart. Then Casey mixed up a few amaretto cocktails (see recipes at mytinybottles.com) before I surprised him with a bonus tiny bottle to taste: L...

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March 16, 2023 5 min

Tammy tells the story of the Disaronno brand's transformation as she attempts to pin a date on this bottle of Amaretto.

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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March 8, 2023 6 min

In this audio only version of Reveal Video #3 I uncover a surprisingly thematic set of bottles, despite grabbing the bottles completely at random from two different boxes. It includes some extra commentary from me, since you can't see what I'm looking at, but if you want to watch me unbox the bottles, check out Reveal Video #3.

Want more Tammy? Check out my cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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March 1, 2023 4 min

Tammy tells the story of how one bourbon distiller took a chance on the wild idea that women might like to drink alcohol themselves, and not just serve it to their husbands.

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Learn all about the history of women and alcohol in Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara

Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/

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February 22, 2023 5 min

When is a bottle of wine not just a bottle of wine? When it's also a salt (or pepper) shaker. Tammy tells the amazing story about how what started as an agricultural worker's cooperative became the number two tourist destination in California! Plus, yodeling.

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Listen to the whole jingle with vintage photo accompaniment!

Watch fabulous vintage Italian Swiss Colony ads

Wa...

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February 15, 2023 4 min

Tammy uses a tiny bottle of Martell Cognac as an excuse to provide a Brandy 101 primer. Learn all the things you didn't know you needed to know about brandy and Cognac!

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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February 8, 2023 4 min

Tammy tells the recently unearthed story of Nearest Green, the enslaved man who taught a boy named Jasper Newton Daniel everything he knew about making whiskey.

Check out this episode on mytinybottles.com for links and photos and more

Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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February 1, 2023 3 min

Sometimes Tammy can find a lot about a bottle. And sometimes, almost nothing. This is one of those times. But tune in anyway for the surprising twist ending!

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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January 25, 2023 5 min

As I talked about in the intro podcast, I don’t know what’s in the bins. And I don’t want to know – part of the fun of this for me is the unboxing, a few at a time. If you want to *see* what that looks like, you can watch the Reveal videos on my website, mytinybottles.com. But I also wanted to create an audio only version for my podcast listeners.

This episode includes audio from Reveal Video 2, interspersed with some extra comment...

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January 18, 2023 4 min

Tammy engages in some serious bottle dating nerdiness as she tries to figure out when this bottle of blended Scotch whisky comes from.

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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January 11, 2023 5 min

Tammy manages to find a throughline from a bottle of sweet 1980s liqueur all the way back to the Medicinal Spirits Act of 1927!

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Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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January 3, 2023 5 min

Tammy tells the sad story of this almost empty bottle of an essential Tiki cocktail ingredient, pimento dram.

Watch me drink the dregs in Reveal Video #1

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Want to buy your own vintage bottle? Just €299!

Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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January 3, 2023 5 min

Tammy tells the story of how Maker’s Mark changed the landscape of American whiskey.

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More on the Maker’s Mark story

Want more Tammy? Check out her cocktail classes at https://www.tammystastings.com/events/

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December 5, 2022 3 min

Welcome to My Tiny Bottles, the project where I’ll be exploring my grandmother’s legacy of miniature liquor bottles, one tiny bottle at a time. Get the backstory and find out what's in store!

Want more? Check out mytinybottles.com for photographs, blog posts, YouTube videos and more!

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