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Journeyman s Latest Corsets, Whips & Whiskey Finished In Cider Casks
Journeyman’s Latest Corsets, Whips & Whiskey Finished In Cider Casks
Journeyman Three Oaks Distillery out of Michigan recently collaborated with Virtue Cider for a new small-batch release of its Corsets, Whips & Whiskey that’s been finished in cider casks.
Pale auburn in color with tannic and leather notes on the nose, the new batch was aged 3 years in charred new American white oak barrels and finished in Virtue Cider barrels for 6 months, allowing for hints of freshly pressed apples leading into cinnamon and nutmeg spices on the tongue. Tart caramel apple rounds out the whiskey with a honey finish, according to official tasting notes.
Journeyman Distillery recently announced it will release its annual “Kissing Cousins” Whiskey in time for Memorial Day weekend this year. The distillery, located in Three Oaks, Michigan, says after a “year without a lot of kissing, this batch of Kissing Cousins is worth the wait.”
The “Kissing Cousins” is a limited batch spirit that has all the qualities of Journeyman’s award-winning Featherbone Bourbon. It has deep earthy notes from the extra time it spent finishing in wine barrels from the nearby Dablon Vineyards and has been called the “wine drinkers whiskey,” the distillery said.
Batch 9 of Kissing Cousins started with the distilling team sampling and selecting several of the distillery’s finest Featherbone Bourbon casks (the bourbon has a mash bill of 70% organic corn, 25% organic wheat and 5% organic rye). The bourbon is aged in new American white oak barrels and then finished in a Dablon Vineyard’s carmenere barrel and chardonnay barrel for a year. It i