TCV Craft Spirits Book

Whiskey: American

BREUCKELEN USA, NEW YORK To us, craft means always starting from raw ingredients, adding only water to our spirits, and letting nature run its course inside our barrels.We develop our own recipes by following our taste buds. This approach has led us to create spirits that taste different than the other bottles on the shelves. 77 New York Wheat Whiskey #321101 / 750ml / $35.99 New York Wheat is distilled cleaner than more typical whiskeys. This method highlights the beauty of using wheat in a mash bill: a smoother, more gentle base lets the intense oak-contributed flavors be the focus. 1 to 2 years in their East New York, Brooklyn warehouse achieves the best balance. Silver Medal American Distilling Institute Local Rye & Corn is distilled on a Coffey style pot still which produces a cleaner, softer spirit in a single pass. Breuckelen distills the rye and corn mashes separately and blends them after maturation. Rye is a brash spirit, with rich spicy notes. Their methods tone down the rye’s intensity, but retains its characteristic style and full flavor. Blended from 90% rye, 10% corn, aged in new American oak 95pts Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 93pts “Highly Reccommended” Ultimate Spirits Challenge 77 Rye & Corn Whiskey #616622 / 750ml / $35.99

LEOPOLD BROTHERS DENVER, COLORADO Small Batch Whiskies American Small Batch Whiskey #921836 / 750ml / $30.00 This Small Batch American Whiskey is the real deal! While this unique and delicious whiskey shares many similarities with Bourbon, it is not labeled so. Aged two years in 53 gallon new charred oak barrels, the flavor profile is significantly less oaky and sweet than what we expect in bourbon. Scotch drinkers can dig this as well as American whiskey drinkers. A fantastically light, playful corn-based spirit that sips as easily as it mixes. “One of America’s Best Distillers” Drink Spirits.com Maryland Style Rye #939138 / 750ml / $41.00 / LIMITED / Seasonal Leopold Brothers offers their take on a classic American rye. Fruity, floral and approachable, this handcrafted small-batch whiskey achieves its unique flavor profile by hand selecting a variety of yeast strains. Barreled at the traditional 98 proof, enabling flavors to develop in charred American oak barrels. Seasonal offering. Bronze Medal 2013 SF World Spirits Competition. All Natural Fruit Whiskies Made from all-natural ingredients, Leopold Brothers simply take their small-batch whiskey, blend it with freshly juiced fruit, and finish it in used bourbon barrels before hand-bottling and labeling. The most important step is that they age the whiskey together with the fruit juice. “Todd and Scott Leopold embody the best of the craft distilling movement... Of the 14 or so spirits we tried, there wasn’t a single one we weren’t impressed with.” — DrinkSpirits.com Michigan Cherry Whiskey NV #896348 / 750ml / $30.00 Before Prohibition, many American distillers added small amounts of fruit juices to sweeten the whiskey as it aged in wooden barrels. Leopold Brothers has revived this classic style of whiskey production by juicing world- renowned Montmorency tart cherries from Michigan, and blending the juice with their whiskey. The spirit then rests in used bourbon barrels, giving the flavors time to marry and mature while drawing out notes of vanilla, marzipan, and spice from the barrels. Georgia Peach Flavored Whiskey #920861 / 750ml / $30.00 A unique and rather yummy treat for the taste-buds. Using two types of peaches and a whole lot of whiskey, they marry the flavors in used bourbon barrels. It stays in those barrels for the measurement of time known as “until the time is right”, when it is bottled and hand-numbered.

HOLIDAY OLD FASHIONED INGREDIENTS: 2 oz Breucklen 77 Local Rye and Corn 3 cranberries orange wedge 2 dashes bitters

1 oz Cranberry Simple Syrup

DIRECTIONS: Rim glass with sugar. Muddle cranberries and orange wedge in a glass. Add whiskey and simple syrup. Top with bitters and stir. Add ice. Garnish with Cranberries — ALFREDO FROM BROOKLYN GROOMING® CRANBERRY SIMPLE SYRUP INGREDIENTS: 8 oz cranberries / 1 cup water / 1 cup sugar DIRECTIONS: In saucepan, bring cranberries, sugar, and water to a simmer. Reduce heat and cook until cranberries are tender but haven’t burst, 10 minutes. Let cool, then strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Discard cranberries. — MARTHASTEWART.COM

91pts Exceptional, Beverage Testing Institute New York Apple Flavored Whiskey #854664 / 750ml / $30.00

A wide range of “almost overripe” apples are juiced and blended with whiskey. The blend is then aged in bourbon barrels. A delicious mix of tangy fruit with hints of charred oak. Apple jam and vanilla. A little honey, toffee and mixed spice. Long, creamy, spicy finish. Highly Recommended Beverage Testing Institute

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