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Nov. 21 - Drammers Los Angeles!...

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(Please Note: The email that went out listed the correct info at the top, but the wrong address/time/date at the bottom. The event is on Sunday and the address below is the correct one - sorry for the confusion!)

LA Drammers!

We hope everyone is well! We wanted to make sure that everyone knew that our next Drammers Los Angeles event will be this Sunday at 7pm, and a big thank you to Kat for hosting us again (address: 8623 Edwin Drive, 90046) . As usual, we’ve assembled a great lineup of bottles to taste:

  • Amrut Indian Single Malt - Ex-Rye Cask. This one is hot off the presses -- a single barrel of Amrut's Indian Single Malt -- made like a scotch, but in Bangalore, India. The hotter climate there means this whisky ages a lot differently than a scotch,with delightful results, and here it was aged in an ex-rye cask, a rare offering from the distillery (we previously tried a similar Amrut ex-rye cask bottled by our friends at La Maison du Whisky in Paris a few years ago. This is a Drammers exclusive single barrel pick, $100/bottle, and is bottled at 60.2% abv.

  • The Glenlivet - Enigma. We’re huge fans of cask strength Glenlivet, and this one, first released in 2019 and bottled at 60.6% was initially released (as its name would imply), as a mystery bottling, with a process by which consumers could fill in a code to try to determine what it was. Eventually, they put an end to the mystery — it is a blend of single malt scotch matured in a mix of American Oak barrels (presumably ex-bourbon) and finished in ex-Canadian first-fill rye barrels.

  • Killowen Irish Whiskey - 10yo Txakolina Finish. This is an innovative new whiskey from Killowen, who were in NYC last week from Ireland for WhiskyFest there, and we had a chance to do an in-depth tasting with them. The distillery they set up is still quite young, so while they’re aging whiskey, they are also sourcing from Great Northern Distillery, the contract distillery supplying a lot of the new distilleries that have emerged in recent years (from the members of the Teeling family that sold Cooley). In any case, this whiskey is just about to hit the market in the US, but is not yet available anywhere to our knowledge, and it’s particularly yummy.

  • Michel Couvreur - Overaged French Single Malt. Next up we’ve got a French whisky, a single malt from the esteemed Michel Couvreur line, who we welcomed last May for our World Whisky Day celebrations. Btw, don’t be thrown off by the “overaged” name, that’s a bit of a lost-in-translation concept as we learned at World Whisky Day. It’s actually their best-selling product…

  • Frey Ranch 4 Grain Bourbon. This farmer husband-and-wife team are taking bourbon to the next level -- all the whisky they make uses grains they grow themselves on their generations-old farm just outside Reno, Nevada. Initially conceived as a way to show off the quality of their grains, it has taken on a life of its own, and this is the first single barrel they have allowed outside of the Nevada and California markets (it was selected by our members as a Drammers exclusive bottling).

  • Stellum Single Barrel Rye (Serpens). The new Stellum line from our friends at Barrell Craft Spirits has arrived, and we were proud to select a private barrel of their rye just for our club. At only $59/bottle, it was the easily standout favorite for the price at our event in Charlotte a couple days ago. The “Serpens” name refers to the mashbill (95% rye, 5% malted barley), and of course it is bottled at cask strength.

  • Kilchoman Drammers Single Barrel - STR cask finish single malt. Another single barrel, this time hailing from Islay, and as you would expect from (most) Islay whiskies, it is plenty peaty and plenty smoky. This is a single barrel Drammers Club pick that was finished in an STR cask and bottled as always at cask strength.

  • Great Jones Distillery - Bourbon. We’ll likely start the night with this one, which is fairly low proof (43% abv) but it’s a fun one because this distillery just opened in Manhattan two months ago. Our club threw an event there to celebrate their arrival (the first whiskey distillery in Manhattan since prohibition — not the first in NYC mind you, that honor goes to Kings County, but still, it’s a big deal). How do they have whiskey for sale if they just opened a couple months ago you might be asking? Because they bought a distillery an hour North of Manhattan (Black Dirt Distilling) and have been working on a signature flavor profile working with whiskey distilled there, which is what this is. It’s a fun chance to try something brand new if nothing else.

That’s our lineup!  And knowing us, there's a good chance we'll add a little surprise day of the event.  We hope you can join us! We’ll have food on hand (likely pizza) as well.

Cheers,
Drammers Club

  • FORMAT: In-person tasting

  • WHERE: 8623 Edwin Drive, 90046

  • WHEN: Sunday, November 21st, 7pm

  • PRICE: $40 per person for Drammers Members, and $50 per person for Drammers Observers

HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT:

  • Members. If you've already registered with our club as a Member or would like to become one (which is $99/year), you get a discount to the event and can sign up here.