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Recent Examples of firkinFree beer, root beer while supplies last on first day of each stop The first day the beer garden arrives at each location, there will be a firkin tapping with free beer, and also free root beer, while supplies last.—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023 Festivities start at 5 p.m. with Michelle tapping a firkin of Termination Dust conditioned with black currants & cinnamon.—Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2021 Streetside has challenged six local teams to use firkins as a vessel in which to rest the brewery’s delicious Demogorgon stout on a variety of adjuncts (nutella and strawberry, anyone?).—Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 2020 For the uninitiated, firkins are traditionally wooden casks that hold some of the most interesting beer going these days, so come thirsty.—Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
Colorful murals adorn the interior, with communal tables and high ceilings, and the outdoors has beer-keg tables and heat lamps and lots of room for patrons — and their dogs — to roam.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
Attendees can also join a talent show, keg bowling, and stein-hoisting competition.
To enter the distillery's cavernous aging rooms is to be surrounded by the same oloroso sherry casks that Don Fernández once used.
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Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Last spring, Bushmills released a 46-year-old single malt aged in a pair of sherry casks that was the oldest Irish single malt bottled to date (there have been older pot still whiskeys).
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