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Chasing Whiskey

Whiskey chasers updates

• A new year starts with the club after finishing our Sourcing bottles
  • Top 3 bottles
  • Micah-4 gate
• Starting our finishing series

Podcast updates

• Updates from last episode
• Texting us

Craft distillery news

• Watershed releases 6 single barrels with OHLQ
  • Each bottle labeled with a royal flush
  • https://www.watersheddistillery.com/ohlq-exclusive-2024
• Balcones Mirador Eclipse Texas Single Malt Whisky
  • ASM made with Wine yeast strains, Red wine and Rose wine
  • https://www.balconesdistilling.com/spirits/mirador-eclipse
• Wyoming Distillery
  • Independence Rock Wyoming exclusive Bourbon
  • Meant to honor the pioneers of the west
  • They were kind enough to send us a sample so stay tuned for that!
  • https://craftspiritsmag.com/2024/06/25/wyoming-whiskey-introduces-independence-rock/

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• History of distillery
• Established in 1986, the Very Olde St. Nick (VOSN) brand was started by Marci Palatella to capitalize on the growing demand in Japan for ultra-aged bourbon.
• Marci worked for Jullian Van Winkle III as his agent in the japanese market
• The brand was designed around bringing the best aged and best tasting whiskey to the Japanese market.
  • Originally sourcing its barrels from the Old Commonwealth distillery (Van Winkle’s distillery)
  • Was then sourced from Willet
  • Now produce their own
• Since the brand was started around fantastic whiskey that had some age to it, they hit a rough spot in 2015 when whiskey started to take off in the US
• Marci bought up an old tobacco farm, in Nelson County (Bardstown KY) to build a craft distillery on.
  • Preservation distillery
• They currently distill in very small batches
  • 1-3 barrels
• The idea behind such small batches is that they are not looking to rush the process. They want to distill the same aged, delicious whiskey that they have been sourcing. owner/s

• This bottle story
  • This brand has a habit of embellishing and just making things up, so take it with a grain of salt
  • They found some barrels in an old warehouse from a shuttered distillery. After tasting them, they purchased the lot of rare perfection and they continued to age there in canada
  • The aging happened in a single story warehouse in canada. Because of the cold there is less interaction with the wood
• Theory
  • It doesn't say, but this 4 grain doesn't seem to have been made the canada way with aging separately
• The juice
  • Aged and bottled in canada
  • 4 grain bourbon mash bill
    • Not disclosed but most believe it to be high wheat

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• History of distillery
  • Alberta Distillers Limited
  • Started in 1946 by Frank Mchahon and Max bell
    • Ranch hands deserve great whisky at a great price
    • Frank Mchahon
      • Oilman. First to go into western canada to look for oil and discover it.
      • He was also a race horse owner and owned Majestic prince, winner of the Kentucky derby and Preakness in 1969
      • He seems to have been the money man
    • Max Bell
      • Married Franks Brothers wifes sister
      • Was a newspaper magnate and oilman
      • Inherited his dads paper that was riddled with debt, was able to get it out of debt, buy more papers, and then get into the oil game
      • Also owned race horses
        • Won the irish derby with Meadow court
        • ⅓ owner with Frank Mchahon and… bing crosby (Frank went to college with Bing at Gonzaga
    • George Conrad Reifel
      • Brought on shortly after
      • Brewer and distiller who worked in Japan to start the anglo japanese brewing company
    • The Why is not stated, but there is a distillation process that goes into oil as well, so that may have been part of the connection
    • Built outside of calgary on 23 acres
    • By 1957 had 3 heat controlled warehouses and 100,000 aging barrels on 28 acres
  • After alberta Distillers Limited
    • 1967 purchased by National distillers and chemical corp
      • Expanded to 600,000 barrels on 42 acres
      • One of few warehouses in canada that can age both rack and pallet style
      • Has 2 rail spurs and can ship out and receive in tankers
      • They decided to sell when standard and poors gave a negative outlook for whiskey
    • 1986 purchased by american brands
      • Renamed to fortune brands in 1997
      • Split in 2011 to fortune brands home and security and Beam Inc
    • Beam purchased by Suntory
• The juice
  • 100% prairie rye whiskey (unmalted)
  • Ground into a flour at the distillery using a hammer mill
  • Distilled using continuous distillation then a pot still
  • 3 years old
  • Ex-bourbon barrels

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