What can we say, we love bourbon! We love to pour it neat and smell how the aroma changes with a couple drops of water; look for the smells of oak and smoke and cherry. We love to enjoy it in cocktail and experiment with different brands and flavors to find the best compliment to the distiller’s creation. We love to compare them side by side to taste the difference in age and proof. What can we say, we love bourbon!
And if you do to – we’ve got a great line-up that we continually curate for you to enjoy. We look for three major things when we choose a bourbon or rye to put on our list. Taste, sourcing, story.
Taste – if it doesn’t taste good then nothing else matters. You are trusting us a bit to be your taste guides with our choices but can bartenders that have drank this much whiskey be wrong?!
Sourcing - For those that don’t follow the American whiskey market closely or are just starting to explore more – there are a number of companies that source bourbon from a few large manufacturers, put their label on it, possibly treat it or blend it, and then sell it as their own. It doesn’t mean that these whiskeys taste bad – but we appreciate what it means to make something from scratch so much we wanted to reflect that in our whiskey menu by supporting companies that do the same. (a quick way to tell on a whiskey label is if it says ‘distilled and bottled by…’ versus just ‘bottled by…’)
Story – We’re a small, independently owned establishment that has a few stories of our own so we appreciate the whiskey brands that have a good whopper behind them, or a true down home genesis that resulted in something special through a lot of luck and hard work. Whiskey, like food, like any business is a result of people and we want to like the people we
support – so we try and know their story and what makes them unique.
Below you’ll see what we’ve selected to share with you – cheers!
