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Taylor Jr. Small Batch Four Roses Single Barrel Eagle Rare 10 Year Ascendant Spirits Breaker Bourbon Frankfort, Kentucky Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Buellton, California 100 Proof 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon 100 Proof Frankfort, Kentucky 90 Proof As a founding father of the bourbon Four Roses was founded by Paul Eagle Rare Bourbon Whiskey is Ascendant Spirits is the first distillery industry, Colonel Edmund Haynes Jones, Jr. in 1884 and is named masterfully crafted and carefully in Santa Barbara County to legally Taylor, Jr. left an indelible legacy. after the four red rose corsage that aged for no less than ten years. produce spirits since Prohibition. His dedication to distilling began at a lovely belle wore to a grand ball Every barrel is discriminately selected Their master distiller blends each the close of the Civil War when he during Jones’s youth. The four roses to offer consistent flavor but with a small batch from only eight carefully purchased Old Fire Copper Distillery are a symbol for the passion that is seemingly individual personality. hand-selected chosen barrels that (O.F.C.). There, he developed put into making this bourbon. Four Eagle Rare is a bourbon that lives up have been aged for at least five innovative techniques that are still in Roses uses a very distinct hand- to its name with its lofty, distinctive years. Eureka! has hand-selected use today. Made by hand, this small- crafted process that consists of two taste experience. each barrel that has gone into this batch bourbon whiskey has been different mash bills and five propri- exclusive batch of Breaker for our aged for at least four years inside etary yeast strains. restaurants. century old warehouses constructed by Colonel E.H. 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Michter’s Capone went to great lengths to Rye is made from select American secure this whiskey for his gangs rye grain that is sheared to maximize and was supplied with hundreds of the extraction of flavor from the gallons per month to be poured in grain. Every bottle of Michter’s Rye speakeasies throughout Chicago, comes from a single barrel which New York, and as far west as San reflects their extraordinary commit- Francisco. Today, the recipe is still ment to offering Kentucky straight produced in Templeton, IA sourcing rye whiskey of the absolute highest whiskey from Indiana. quality. 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Rye whiskey that has been aged in this manner for at least two years is considered “straight rye”. Nutty Floral Nutty Floral Spice Sweet Spice Sweet Sazerac Straight Rye Rittenhouse Bottled-In-Bond Prichard’s Tennessee Rye High West Rendezvous Frankfort, Kentucky Kelso, Tennessee 90 Proof Straight Rye 86 Proof Straight Rye Bardstown, Kentucky Park City, Utah 100 Proof 92 Proof Sazerac Rye Whiskey symbolizes Rittenhouse is produced in the Prichard’s uses special select Rendezvous Rye is a marriage of the tradition and history of New tradition of the classic Pennsylvania American rye which is then distilled two exotic straight rye whiskeys Orleans. Rye whiskey that dates or Monongahela (river in PA) rye in a copper pot still and aged in – one old, and one young. It mar- back to the 1800s, around the time whiskeys. Monongahela whiskey small American oak barrels for the ries the rich aromatic qualities of a when saloons, veiled as Coffee gained fame when the American perfect balance of smoothness and 16-year-old 80% rye with the bold Houses, began lining the streets of Revolution brought rum trading to a flavors desired. It is bottled at 86 spicy properties of a six-year-old New Orleans.