Bryan Smith
I write about Nashville, Ind.-based Arduous Fact Distilling Co. pretty typically right here on Bites. There are a couple of causes for that. First, for a comparatively younger distillery, they’re continually releasing new merchandise. Second, I’ve actually loved nearly all of those I’ve sampled. Their focus on candy mash whiskeys units them aside from most different distilleries, they usually additionally wish to experiment with various kinds of malts — one thing I actually recognize.
Arduous Fact has a particular expertise for making rye whiskey, and as a Manhattan lover, that hits me good. In reality, the newest new product I’ve sampled from them is one other banger!
The newest launch of their Barrel End Reserve Collection is a Straight Rye Whiskey completed in torched mizunara oak barrels. The uncommon, slow-growing, tight-grained Japanese oak is the wooden of the second on this planet of whiskey, and it contributes a stunning nutty and spicy character to the spirit, together with a aromatic incense word on the nostril. At 124.7 proof, it manages to not drink too scorching, though it does ask for a drop or two of water to open up the aromas with out singeing nostril hairs. Solely 21 barrels have been produced, so it’s a uncommon gem, certainly.
However don’t take my phrase for it. Possibly you’d reasonably ask the grasp distiller himself? You may have that chance for those who attend Bowties at Bourbon on Saturday, Aug. 23, beginning at 3 p.m. inside Mason’s Restaurant on the Loews Vanderbilt Resort. Arduous Fact’s Bryan Smith will probably be there to take attendees by a guided tasting of his merchandise, complemented by small plates from Mason’s chef Sean Strolle. The occasion may even function a welcome cocktail, dwell music and free valet parking.
Smith is promising to carry some extremely allotted merchandise that you could be not be capable to discover in Nashville, so don’t miss out. Purchase your ticket at present!
