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Hello Austin Drammers,
You’re invited to join us for another tasting of rare whiskey and spirits on Thursday, August 13th at 7pm. A big thank you to Dan for organizing. We’ve assembled a great lineup, a fun mix of Bourbon, Scotch, Japanese and Irish whiskies, and we’re keeping a few slots open for some last-minute surprise whiskies:
Russell's Reserve 13yo 2025. Funny things happen at the end of June, which is the fiscal year-end for some of the distributors and spirits companies out there. Sometimes they suddenly need to get something they've been sitting on off their books, and we're guessing that may have happened here, when out of nowhere we were offered an additional allocation of one of the hottest bourbon bottlings from last year -- the 2025 Russell's Reserve 13yo. We weren't about to turn that down! A nice warm up as we are about to announce the release of this year's Russell's bottling. 61.9% abv.
That Boutique-y Whisky Co. - 21yo Japanese Whisky (Batch 3). One of the more exciting independent bottlers out there, but sadly it left the US market pre-covid. Interestingly the issue was mostly bottle size -- in the rest of the world, they release in predominantly 500ml bottles, a size that until recently was not permitted in the US. Now that the US has just approved this as a bottle size, will they return? We'll see, but we were intrigued at the timing when last week we were offered a stash of these earlier bottlings they did in 375ml size bottles. 47.4% abv.
That Boutique-y Whisky Co. - 15yo Irish Single Malt, Batch 5. Another one that just fell in our lap. We can't say for sure, but likely from Cooley or Bushmills. 46% abv.
Booker's 2026-01 ("Big Easy Batch"). Released in March, this was aged for 7 years, 2 months and 15 days. 77% corn, 13% rye and 10% malted barley. Reportedly a combination of barrels pulled from 5 different production dates/warehouses. 64.55% abv.
Kilchoman - STR Single Cask (Drammers Pick). As we get ready for our upcoming online event with the Kilchoman Distillery, we thought it would be a good time to revisit this single cask our club selected, matured in one of Jim Swan's famous "Shaved, Toasted and Recharred" barrels (or STR). The whisky was bottled about 1 month short of 10 years old, and if you're not familiar with Kilchoman, we'll get into it at the event, but they were the first new distillery on Islay in over 100 years when they were launched just under 20 years ago. Cask #2011/227, 14 month STR finish, 50 PPM / 53.4% abv
Plus three more surprise pours TBA!
That’s our lineup, we hope you can join us! 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, Dan and Drammers Club