Calandro’s Blog

🚨 RAFFLE UPDATE 🚨 View in Instagram ⇒

$75,000 dollars raised for @forekidsnola @emergela @stlillianbr .. heck of a night, heck of a week, THANK YOU to each and every person that bought tickets! 100% of that money goes to charity…Winners will be posted at NOON tomorrow! #raffleszn #strongwater #thankyou...

We’re back live… go back to YouTube on a different stream on 1045 ESPN… View in Instagram ⇒

🚨 FINAL LIST (We think) 🚨 We have a finalized list for this evenings festivities.. it totals out to 145 bottles. We will more than likely be having a second raffle when (if) the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection arrives in the next couple weeks and if any other raffle...

🚨 JUST ADDED 🚨 More bourbon added to the list of our 12th Annual Rare Whiskey Raffle… we found an old Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, for the chefs kiss… there will be multiple list additions throughout the day today and tomorrow… stay tuned. Get your tickets at either...

🚨 Ticket sales have begun for our 12th Annual Rare Whiskey Raffle at BOTH locations! Ticket sales are in person only. No online or over the phone sales will be done… buy tickets at the registers in the front of the store and our team will direct you from there!...

@luxrowdistillers Four Grain Double Single Barrel, is now available at our Perkins Rd location! #strongwater #doublesingle #parkinglot #bourbonszn #happyhunting View in Instagram ⇒

Santa and his #bigrig are traveling to our Perkins Rd store this evening from 4-5 PM today… come stop by to take a FREE picture with 🎅🏻 courtesy of @cocacola #snowy #seigen #hohoho #whowouldknow #santaclausiscomingtotown #18wheeler View in Instagram ⇒

We’re getting an early jump and posting the FIRST list of bottles for our 12th Annual Rare Whiskey Raffle on Thursday December 14th at our Perkins Rd location… This list WILL change. There are glaring omissions. We are expecting much more in the next couple weeks…...

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 It’s that time of year again, already… This year our raffle will be back IN PERSON at our Perkins Rd location after a few year “virtual” hiatus due to Covid. @taylor_calandro and @mattmoscona will be MCing the evening with, I’m sure, more than a...

🚨 NEW BARREL ALERT 🚨 Our newest Calandro’s Single Barrel Select is @1792bourbon Full Proof… clocking in at 125 proof , this big full flavored bourbon is sure to please the masses. This is available at BOTH locations! Don’t delay, it’s going to go fast… #strongwater...

@oldcarterwhiskeyco Small Batch Bourbon, batches 15 and 16 and also batch 14 Rye are all now available at our Perkins Rd location! We don’t hold, please don’t call… there are 6 bottles of each of these and they are 1 per person… happy hunting #strongwater #giddyup...

@parishbrewingco Actias Luna Triple IPA is now available! Big, bold, green, delicious… a beer that warms the bones .. #local #mothbeernumber2 #hops #green #freshie #rtwfy 🐯 View in Instagram ⇒

Game starts at 6:45pm this Sat. So really you weren't gonna be making groceries after 7pm anyway, right?! Yeah we know...we wanna watch the game too...😉 (Psst...so get over here before 7p mmkay? All the foods and boozes for those Bama game watchin' parties are here,...

🚨 NEW BARREL PICK 🚨 Introducing our latest and greatest store pick and our first of this series… @whistlepigwhiskey Piggyback Rye is now available at BOTH locations! This 100% rye packs the rye spice but finishes with wonderful notes of oak and vanilla… the rye really...

TGIF… Perkins Rd location … **Limited quantities** We will not hold bottles, please don’t ask! #whiskeyfrisky #tgif #strongwater #herdofbuffalo View in Instagram ⇒

@smokewagonwhiskey is now available at our Perkins Rd location! The first drop features their straight bourbon clocking in at 92.5 proof and Uncut Unfiltered 116.0 proof. If you have not had the chance to try anything from these guys yes, do yourself a favor… it is...

🚨 NEW BARREL ARRIVAL 🚨 Our latest and greatest single barrel select comes from the folks at @sazeracrye … the single barrels of Saz that we have had in the past and that we’ve tried along the way have all been great… this one is no different. All the wonderful rye...

A big, big piece of our Calandro's Perkins family is retiring after his last shift today. Mr. Ronny Sansone, a 23 year manager with us, who started basically when the Perkins store opened in 2000 - assumed by many to be 'Mr. Calandro' because he's been such a fixture...

🚨 NEW BARREL 🚨 This one speaks for itself. From @elijahcraig this 131.9 proof is a whopper.. o yeah, and we picked it. Introducing the 2nd Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Calandro’s Private Barrel… big, bold, full flavored, no bells, no whistles … just really good bourbon....