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Hello Birmingham Drammers!

We're excited to invite you to the kickoff event of our "Drammers" whiskey and spirits club in Birmingham on Monday, February 5th at 7pm. A huge thank you to Justin McKee for organizing our Birmingham chapter and to his friend Reid for hosting this event (address: 2311 Morris Ave #301).

We've got a great lineup of spirits we'll be tasting, which you can read more about below. We'll order in pizza (included) to make sure nobody’s drinking on an empty stomach, and of course we strongly encourage everyone to arrange a ride home.

We hope you can join us! Please let us know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Charlie, Justin and Drammers Club

WHAT IS DRAMMERS CLUB?

We're trying to create a global whiskey and spirits club, and to that end we currently host regular events in 47 cities around the world, mostly in the US and Europe, and some in the Middle East, India and elsewhere. Basically we get together every couple months to drink rare spirits and enjoy each other’s company -- we like to say that our members have drinking buddies waiting for them anywhere they get off a plane, and while that's not strictly true just yet, we do have a lot of places covered, ha. We also host online events, organize (a lot of) barrel picks, group trips to whiskey and mezcal festivals, etc. More details about the club can be found at www.Drammers.com and this article in Whisky Magazine gives a nice overview.

BOTTLE LINEUP FOR THE EVENT:

Bardstown Bourbon Co. - Single Barrel Bourbon. This single barrel just arrived, part of the launch of the first-ever single barrel program from Bardstown Bourbon Co. They selected only 100 barrels of their Origins profile (60% corn, 36% rye, 4% malted barley), all aged 6 years, for the entire US, and it only yielded a surprisingly low 138 bottles. Bottled at cask strength exclusively for members of Drammers Club.
Green River - Single Barrel KY Straight Bourbon. This single barrel also just arrived from Bardstown’s sister distillery (Bardstown acquired the historic distillery in 2022 and both launched their single barrel programs at the end of 2023, though reportedly only something like 40 barrels were released as part of their inaugural year). This was also aged 6 years, but it is so different, with big eucalpytus / minty notes going into the finish. It is technically “Full Proof” - 59.5% abv / 119 proof (in other words, close to cask strength, but diluted slightly so they don’t have to submit TTB labels for approval for each barrel). Damn fine bourbon. The barrel yielded 156 bottles. We're confirming, but we believe the mashbill is 70% Corn, 21% Rye, 9% Malted Barley).
Drammers Pick #100 - Proof & Wood Curated Collection - 10yo Straight Bourbon. 750ml, 56.3% abv, 1 of 144 bottles. Distilled at MGP Distillery, Mashbill: 99% corn, 1% malted barley. This was our 10 Year Anniversary Commemorative bottle that was unveiled at our 10 year anniversary party, The Drammening in October. We'll taste it at the event and it it is available for sale exclusively to Drammers members at DRINQY.com
High Wire Distillery - Jimmy Red Corn (Experimental Single Barrel). This single barrel was selected by our fellow Drammers in Charleston from their hometown favorite distillery -- the high Wire Distillery. It features an unusual 100% corn mashbill made entirely from a rare corn varietal that they resurrected from near extinction and call Jimmy Red corn. Unlike their normal releases, this experimental barrel was a combination of two mashes, the first used a wine yeast, the second used their regular yeast, and they combined them in this one barrel. The result is wonderful. Bottled of course at cask strength. As always, it’s available exclusively to our club.
Starlight Bourbon Finished in a Grape Brandy Cask. This is the 3rd of 3 single barrels our club selected at the Starlight Distillery in southern Indiana near Louisville. This third pick is a 4yo bourbon finished in Grape Brandy casks and bottled at cask strength. Delicious stuff. Keep in mind that Huber has been a winery since the late 1800s, so the brandy finishes use brandy casks they made in house. More info on the other 2 single barrels we picked with them here if you’re curious.
Atelier Vie - RIZ Louisiana Whiskey - Experimental Brown Rice Single Cask. This is truly a one-of-a-kind barrel, the first experimental brown rice whiskey made by Jedd, the founder at the Atelier Vie distillery in New Orleans. His regular white rice RIZ New Orleans Whiskey is one of his best sellers, and we had a chance to try this, the only barrel of brown rice whiskey he’s ever made, when we visited the distillery last year. We were blown away and immediately asked if we could have it as a Drammers-exclusive. It was aged 3 years and 7 months and bottled at cask strength of 61.52% abv. Btw, the angels share was quite high — the barrel only yielded 72 bottles.
Glen Scotia Single Malt Scotch - Master Cask Collection - Drammers Exclusive Single Cask. Next up, we’ll try this single barrel that has just arrived — our 3rd single barrel pick with the distillery, selected by our members in Dallas. We’re very proud to have a great relationship with this distillery, having recently had the honor of arranging a 5 city US tour for their Master Distiller Iain McAlister in October for his first-ever trip to the United States. This single barrel is matured in a first fill Oloroso hogshead (unpeated, 6yo, 56.5% abv), 1 of 230 bottles. Now in stock at our retail partner DRINQY.com.
Rolling Fork Brazilian Rum. A Brazilian rum aged 12 years, distilled at the Epris distillery and bottled by the independent bottling group Rolling Fork. And, importantly, it was aged for part of those 12 years in an Amburana cask. If you’ve tried any bourbons finished in Amburana, they bring rich, bbq sauce notes and are often overpowering — sometimes too much of a good thing. So, the Rolling Fork team didn’t finish this rum in an Amburana cask, rather they matured it partially in an amburana cask, but then tempered that by having the end of its maturation in an ex-bourbon cask. , which is definitely a good thing. Bottled at cask strength of 55.05% abv.

That’s our lineup, we hope you can join us!