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Hello Oklahoma City Drammers!
You’re invited to join us for another tasting of rare whiskey and spirits on Monday, June 8th at 6:30pm. We’ve assembled a great lineup — the tasting will feature some exciting new single casks that our club picked (which have just arrived) plus some other cutting-edge new releases. Specifically, the lineup will include:
Ardnamurchan Peated 6yo - Peated 6yo Drammers Single Barrel Pick #110. Distilled at the Ardnamurchan Distillery, which has been around now for over 10 years, but they are still arguably one of the hottest of the newer crop of young Scotch distilleries. Cask #1520, distilled in 2018, matured in a Peated First Fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead, 1 of 320 bottles, 58.6% abv. Wait until you see how dark this liquid is (no color added of course!).
Linkwood Distillery Unpeated 14yo (Independent Bottling by Adelphi). This is another single cask pick selected by Drammers Club (pick #111), and it’s not a coincidence that they arrived at the same time (Adelphi is the parent company that built and owns the Ardnamurchan distillery, so we picked these casks together). This pick is also ridiculously dark. Matured in a 1st Fill PX Sherry Cask. Distilled in 2011, Bottled in 2025, 1 of 217 bottles, 53.5% abv.
Found North - 12yo - Madeira Cask Finish (Drammers Pick #115). 57.5% abv
Found North - 12yo - Cherry Liqueur Finish (Drammers Pick #116). The next two expressions are from the hottest name in Canadian whisky. Founded during COVID, Zach and Nick Taylor started experimenting with creating their own blends from some of the oldest-available stocks of Canadian whisky (unlike in the US, the Canadian whisky industry distills and ages each grain separately and then blends them together at the bottling stage). The result has been one of the biggest phenomenons in whisky — the Found North releases almost never touch a shelf, all heavily allocated, and often selling out in mere seconds. All of which makes it particularly flattering that they let us select these two single barrels. They created a base using a mix of 49% rye, 48% corn and 3% malted barley, with a mix of components aged 12, 15, 17, 21, 22 and 25 years old. They then broke that blend off into separate experimental finishing casks. We tried a bunch of them and settled on these two picks for the club. 58.05% abv.
Balcones Single Barrel Rum. We’ll mix things up a bit with this Drammers barrel pick of rum from Balcones — the first time they ever agreed to release a single barrel of their rum as part of a barrel pick! Bottled at cask strength, and let’s just say that rum fans will not be disappointed!
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.
Stauning - Peated Single Malt (Amarone Single Cask). This brand new Drammers single barrel is from our friends at the Stauning Distillery in Denmark. This is our 3rd cask pick with them — a peated single malt matured in 1st fill bourbon and Amarone casks. Aged 4 years, 10 months, bottled at 57% abv.
That’s our lineup, we hope you can join us! A big thank you to John and Zac for organizing and hosting us again (address: The Eleanor - 602 W Sheridan). We’ll order in light food which is included in your ticket (likely pizza) and as always we ask that everyone arrange a ride home — after all, we’ll be drinking a bunch of high proof stuff.
Cheers,
Charlie, John, Zac and Drammers Club