“In blind tastings, you need something that can entertain your tongue in different spots.”
“The thing I look for in whiskey is the way it feels in the mouth,” he says. He spills generous pours into two of the dozens of tasting glasses he keeps in his office, a bright and compact space lined floor to ceiling with bottles displayed like museum pieces. But since Minnick named it American Whiskey of the Year in 2018, in most places it’s only available on the quasi-legal secondary market for $300 or more. The first bottle is 15-year-old cask-strength (i.e., high-in-alcohol) Barrell Bourbon, a blend of Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana spirits that retails north of $250 a bottle. It’s afternoon, and in Fred Minnick’s world, when afternoon arrives, one tastes whiskey. The whiskey writer, critic and entrepreneur is highlighting a small point in his never-ending conversation about American whiskey. It is available for $199.99 SRP.įind Blue Run Spirits at retail and online at his ground-floor office in Norton Commons, just a few blocks from home, Fred Minnick selects two bourbons. In keeping with releasing a whiskey just before Mother’s Day, each of these Blue Run Spirits rye single barrels from this Emerald Rye collection are named for the mothers in the lives of Blue Run founders.īlue Run Kentucky Straight Emerald Single Barrel Rye Whiskey features an anodized emerald green butterfly medallion on the bottle, making it easily identifiable to whiskey enthusiasts and collectors alike. “This might be somewhat easier when blending, but when you are working with single barrels at barrel proof, the art lies in the barrel selection, understanding how the distillate interacted with the barrel char level, and to the extent I can, what climate factors impacted that barrel as it aged over the years.” “With Blue Run’s Emerald Rye Whiskies, I am trying to work towards a baseline flavor foundation for the entire collection, then find interesting or unexpected interpretations that are wholly unique but don’t stray too far from the original profile,” said Gammon.
These are also bottled at barrel proof with no water added to dilute the flavor or aroma, thus allowing subtle individual nuances to shine through. Shaylyn Gammon, Blue Run’s Whiskey Director, selected the barrels to echo the flavors found in the initial Emerald Rye Whiskey, but with each featuring its own personality found only in a single barrel release.
Like the Gold Medal-awarded Blue Run previous Emerald Rye (released in November 2022), this single barrel offering was contract distilled by Blue Run Liquid Advisor Jim Rutledge at Castle & Key Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. Blue Run Emerald Single Barrel Rye will be available only online at beginning at 3:00 p.m. Blue Run Spirits announced its first ever Single Barrel Rye Whiskey, and the second release in its Emerald Rye series.
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