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| In January of 2015, at the Upper Mississippi Mash Out, one of the biggest and baddest homebrew competitions around, I ended up talking to another beer judge Scot Schaar. Scot is a distiller for the Mississippi River Distilling Company out of LeClaire, Iowa. The distillery opened in 2010, and Scot has been bringing bottles of their spirits for the UMMO charity silent auction for years. I’ve always wondered what the whiskey tasted like, but have never gone out of my way to look for it. That year, I discovered that Scot had brought some small used oak barrels with him on this trip and that a few had not been claimed. So I found myself in a chilly darkened parking lot hefting a heavy oaken barrel while my wife (giving me a significantly dirty look) handed this fine fellow a wad of cash. On the barrel head so to speak…
The barrel is a 15 gallon oaken affair that previously held the Cody Road Rye Whiskey for approximately 14 months. The rye grain for this spirit is grown in Illinois … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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