Barrell Craft Spirits Launches Private Release Whiskey Series

Barrell Craft Spirits Launches Private Release Whiskey Series

Award-Winning Independent Bottler and Blender’s Most Ambitious Project To Date Features 24 Expressions Finished in a Secondary Vessel

Louisville, Ky. (May 26, 2020) – Barrell Craft Spirits (BCS) has launched its highly-anticipated Private Release Whiskey Series. Each batch features a unique blend based around Barrell’s 18-year-old stocks of Kentucky Whiskey, which were then finished in a secondary barrel or cask.

Known best for sourcing and blending award-winning, unique aged spirits at cask strength, BCS’ Private Release Whiskey Series is a project in detailed blending on a scale small enough to allow extreme precision. It affords the team the opportunity to exercise its blending expertise while maintaining a single barrel-like scale controlled entirely by hand and by palate. While the company previously released a Private Release Rum Series last July, which sold out in two months, this is their first whiskey-focused series.

Led by Founder Joe Beatrice and Master Distiller Tripp Stimson, the BCS teamconsistently strives to become the most creative, forward-thinking and progressive whiskey blenders in the nation.That meanssourcing the finest ingredients from around the world, and using them to blend spirits that are far greater than the sum of their parts. It also means maximizing the best attributes of each element. Every component changes the overall character of these blends, as does the barrel in which each is aged. For that reason, these whiskeys take months to polish and perfect.

“The Private Release Whiskey Series is hands down our most ambitious project to date,” said Company Founder Joe Beatrice. “We pride ourselves on pushing the creative envelope every day, exploring opportunities to source and blend outside the box, and showcase the world’s most exciting spirits.”

Private Release Barrels, which are a blend of whiskeys (vs. single barrels), offer retailers, bourbon clubs and whiskey aficionados alike, something truly unique. At BCS, every batch is produced as a limited release and has a distinct flavor profile. Because certain batches were purchased through retailers or clubs, or may only be available online, BCS has added a special section to its website which contains the full list of offerings and suggestions for where to buy. Each offering contains between 150-180 total bottles. The SRP for each 750ml bottle is $109. The “Private Release Whiskey Series” includes the following:

 

AH01 – KY Whiskey Finished in a Sauternes Barrel

AH02 – KY Whiskey finished in a Tokaji Barrel
AH03 – KY Whiskey finished in a Washington State Ice Wine Barrel
AH04 – KY Whiskey finished in a Jamaican Rum Cask
AH05 – KY Whiskey finished in a Sicilian Amaro Cask
AH06 – KY Whiskey finished in a Pedro Ximenez Sherry Barrel
AH07 – KY Whiskey finished in a Oloroso Sherry Barrel
AH08 – KY Whiskey finished in a Malmsey Madeira Barrel
AH09 – KY Whiskey finished in a Ratafia de Champagne Barrel
AH10 – KY Whiskey finished in a Ruby Port Barrel
AH11 – KY Whiskey finished in a Gewurztraminer Ice Wine Barrel
AH12 – KY Whiskey finished in a New York State Ice Wine Barrel
AH13 – KY Whiskey finished in a German Ice Wine Barrel
AH14 – KY Whiskey finished in a Calvados Cask
AH15 – KY Whiskey finished in an Apricot Brandy Barrel
AH16 – KY Whiskey finished in a Jamaican Rum Cask
AH17 – KY Whiskey finished in a Pear Brandy Cask
AH18 – KY Whiskey finished in an Armagnac Cask
AH19 – KY Whiskey finished in an Armagnac Cask
AH20 – KY Whiskey finished in a Pear Brandy Cask
AH21 – KY Whiskey finished in a Rhum Agricole Cask
AH22 – KY Whiskey finished in an Indiana Rye Barrel
AH23 – KY Whiskey finished in an Islay Single Malt Scotch Cask
AH24 – KY Whiskey finished in a Pedro Ximenez Sherry Barrel

Founded in 2013, BCS selects and blends products that explore different distillation methods, barrels and aging environments, and bottles them at cask strength. The company’s extensive stocks of high-quality casks means it can craft extraordinary blends and creative finishes that maximize the nuances of each ingredient. Every batch is produced as a limited release and has a distinct flavor profile.

At the 2020 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Barrell Bourbon Batch 021 received Double Gold and was named Best Bourbon and Best Small Batch Bourbon – both overall and within the 6-10 year category. Additionally, Barrell Bourbon Batch 020 and Barrell Rye Batch 003 were awarded Double Gold medals, while Barrell Bourbon Batch 022 earned a Gold Medal. The previous year, BCS captured “Best Small Batch Bourbon over 11 years old” (Barrell Bourbon Batch 018) as well as three Double Golds.

The Barrell Craft Spirits award-winning line of products is currently sold in 45 US states and online via www.barrellbourbon.com. Follow Barrell Craft Spirits on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

About Barrell Craft Spirits

Barrell Craft Spirits is an independent blender and bottler of unique aged, cask-strength sourced whiskey and rum spirits, that is recognized for its blending expertise. The company selects and blends products that explore different distillation methods, barrels and aging environments, and bottles them at cask strength. Every batch is produced as a limited release and has a distinct flavor profile.

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Grain & Barrel Spirits Launches Chicken Cock Ryeteous Blonde

Grain & Barrel Spirits Launches Chicken Cock Ryeteous Blonde

Newest Six Barrel Limited-Edition Expression Will Be Allocated in Small Quantities to Select States

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (May 6, 2020) – Grain & Barrel Spirits has launched Chicken Cock Ryeteous Blonde, its newest limited-edition expression, in partnership with Goodwood Brewing based in Louisville, Kentucky. This marks the company’s second beer barrel finish collaboration with Goodwood. With only six barrels produced, Ryeteous Blonde will be allocated in limited quantities to select states.

Six barrels of this very special, high-quality Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey were finished in original Chicken Cock Kentucky Straight Bourbon barrels that were used by Goodwood to age their Blonde Ale. Once the ale had completed its finishing process in the Chicken Cock Bourbon barrels and the beer removed for consumption, the barrels were then shipped back to the distillery and refilled with Chicken Cock Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey. They were sampled periodically during the finishing process by Master Distiller Gregg Snyder, to evaluate the spectacular transformation, as the Rye flavors married perfectly with the complimentary flavors of the Blonde Ale. Gregg determined that the flavor combinations reached their peak in the barrel at 90-proof, adding the proper amount of water to “open up” the amazing flavors, without over-diluting them.

This beautifully balanced Rye Whiskey features a mash bill of 95% Rye and 5% Malted Barley. It was not chill-filtered, allowing it to retain a beautiful amber color, and an amazing array of complex spice notes, with cinnamon, brown sugar, hint of dark chocolate, slight grassiness, with complimentary overtones of malted barley and sweet oak. The taste features a plethora of spectacular flavors with notes of butterscotch, caramel, toffee, and allspice, followed by a hint of Toasted Oak. The “flavor explosion” on the palate fades slowly into a sweet, long-lasting finish.

Established in 1856 in Paris, Kentucky (10 years before Jack Daniels), Chicken Cock rose to fame as the house whiskey at The Cotton Club, one of Prohibition’s most legendary speakeasies. Known as “The Famous Old Brand” and “The Whiskey in a Tin Can,” Chicken Cock was smuggled into the Club in sealed tin cans, then ceremoniously opened table-side. After Prohibition, the brand enjoyed a resurgent couple of decades before a distillery fire just after World War II put it out of business. In 2012, Matti Anttila, founder of Grain & Barrel Spirits, rediscovered the brand and set out to resurrect it to its Prohibition-era glory. Master Distiller Gregg Snyder was enlisted to provide the knowledge and experience needed to help achieve that goal. Snyder’s résumé includes distilling, cooperage, and executive positions with Brown-Forman, Austin Nichols, as well as board positions with the Associated Cooperage Industries of America, Kentucky Distillers’ Association, and others.

Chicken Cock Ryeteous Blonde Whiskey was 100% distilled, aged, finished and bottled in the Bluegrass State and bottled in a Prohibition-era replica apothecary-style bottle.It is a very limited-edition offering with only 1,428 total 750ml bottles available online and in select markets, including: AL, AR, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, NY, OK, SC, TN, WV, for the suggested retail price of $89.99.

About Grain & Barrel Spirits

Founded in 2012 by Matti Anttila, Grain & Barrel Spirits is an award-winning craft spirits company at home in the Southeast with production and sales partners around the world. The company was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list, coming in within the top 25% of America’s fastest-growing, independently owned businesses. In addition to pre-Prohibition favorite Chicken Cock Whiskey, wholly owned brands include Dixie Southern Vodka, the largest premium craft vodka produced in the Southeast, and The Endless Summer Spirits CompanyPlease visit https://www.chickencockwhiskey.com and follow on Instagram @chickencockwhiskey and Facebook

Chicken Cock Whiskey is also proud to be associated with the Bardstown Bourbon Company’s collaborative distiller’s program.

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