Comments on: Independent Distillery Co. Planning To Open in Decatur This Fall

By: Occi

Occi — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:25:40 +0000

This is great news. Went to a similar indie micro distillery while visiting Chicago and wished we had one here. Had a lovely time taste testing their Vodka and Gin.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:53:52 +0000

Growlers FTW!

By: RT

RT — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:22:12 +0000

Everything is coming together perfectly.

By: Shannan

Shannan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:13:55 +0000

Most distilleries that do tours also do tastings. At bigger places like Woodford Reserve, they might give you a full ounce and only sample one label. At smaller places like Corsair Artisan, they’ll often let you taste anything they’ve got in stock in the gift shop, but the samples are only about a teaspoonful, and they cap the total number at around 4. You smell the bourbon, then hold it in your mouth for a moment to process the mouthfeel and initial notes. Then you swallow it and note the way the notes change. If you’re sampling multiple bourbons, you might go back and forth between them to compare. You don’t spit it out (or at least no one ever has at any of the distilleries or whiskey tastings I’ve been to). If you’re on the bourbon trail, you’re not drinking enough at any one distillery to get a buzz. If you’re at a whiskey tasting with a rep of the company (say at Mac McGee’s), you just have somebody else drive you home.

By: DEM

DEM — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:40:34 +0000

Question, how do you do a series of bourbon tastings? Swirl and spit like wine? I’d never heard of that with bourbon, though of course if you swallowed all of it, you’d have a hard time standing up for long.