Join us for the launch and bottle signing of Kings Code 3 Tan’s Fury at Canterbury Liquors. Amanda Beckwith, lead blender at Virginia Distillery Company and Padraic Col, co-founder of Clonakilty Distillery will be co-hosting this event with Irene Tan.
Kings Code 3 is a blend of whiskies sourced from these two distilleries. Come find out why this third edition is “angry” whiskey. We will have all three Kings Code editions available for tasting.
Don’t miss the historic launch of Clonakilty Single Pot Still in the US and the chance to meet the Head Distiller, Oisin Mulcahy. I tasted the new make in 2022 when I was in Cork and it is stunningly delicious. I cannot wait to try the aged whiskey.
It’s that time of year for our annual unicorn whiskey event. We’ll keep the instructions simple. There will be 3 separate tasting sessions. You can only sign up for one session. Each session is limited to 50 people. You taste 4 whiskies in the session you sign up for. When you arrive, you will be handed a wee Glencairn for your tasting. Hang on to and don’t try to make off with it. After your tasting, you will return it for a free raffle ticket. If your ticket gets picked at conclusion of the 4 tasting sessions, you will get a chance to buy one of the unicorn bottles at close to MSRP + a $25 Project Interrupted fee (this your donation to our local charity).
Each session will have 3 of our single barrel picks and 1 bottle that is has “Unicorn” status. The tasting list will not be revealed till the day of the event. Signing up for the last session might give you a shorter wait time for the drawing but you don’t know what unicorn bottle tasting you will miss in the earlier sessions. 
While you’re waiting your turn, there will be a food truck in the parking lot in front of the store. Bring cash and chow down while you wait in anticipation of getting that special bottle. At 2:30 pm we will start to call out the tickets. You have 30 seconds to pick your bottle.
It’s that time of year for our annual unicorn whiskey event. We’ll keep the instructions simple. There will be 3 separate tasting sessions. You can only sign up for one session. Each session is limited to 50 people. You taste 4 whiskies in the session you sign up for. When you arrive, you will be handed a wee Glencairn for your tasting. Hang on to and don’t try to make off with it. After your tasting, you will return it for a free raffle ticket. If your ticket gets picked at conclusion of the 4 tasting sessions, you will get a chance to buy one of the unicorn bottles at close to MSRP + a $25 Project Interrupted fee (this your donation to our local charity).
Each session will have 3 of our single barrel picks and 1 bottle that is has “Unicorn” status. The tasting list will not be revealed till the day of the event. Signing up for the last session might give you a shorter wait time for the drawing but you don’t know what unicorn bottle tasting you will miss in the earlier sessions.
While you’re waiting your turn, there will be a food truck in the parking lot in front of the store. Bring cash and chow down while you wait in anticipation of getting that special bottle. At 2:30 pm we will start to call out the tickets. You have 30 seconds to pick your bottle.
It’s that time of year for our annual unicorn whiskey event. We’ll keep the instructions simple. There will be 3 separate tasting sessions. You can only sign up for one session. Each session is limited to 50 people. You taste 4 whiskies in the session you sign up for. When you arrive, you will be handed a wee Glencairn for your tasting. Hang on to and don’t try to make off with it. After your tasting, you will return it for a free raffle ticket. If your ticket gets picked at conclusion of the 4 tasting sessions, you will get a chance to buy one of the unicorn bottles at close to MSRP + a $25 Project Interrupted fee (this your donation to our local charity).
Each session will have 3 of our single barrel picks and 1 bottle that is has “Unicorn” status. The tasting list will not be revealed till the day of the event. Signing up for the last session might give you a shorter wait time for the drawing but you don’t know what unicorn bottle tasting you will miss in the earlier sessions.
While you’re waiting your turn, there will be a food truck in the parking lot in front of the store. Bring cash and chow down while you wait in anticipation of getting that special bottle. At 2:30 pm we will start to call out the tickets. You have 30 seconds to pick your bottle.
It’s a double header Saturday. Following our Ben Holladay tasting is the launch of our first single barrel “double barreled” bourbon from Nulu QS01 Fall Jacket. Despite the heat wave we are currently experiencing, you will want to pick up a few of these bottles for when the mercury drops.
Join us for a rare opportunity to learn about cognac, specifically the Martingale cognac. The 2023 cognac is their inaugural release. We will get to taste the 4 components of the blend and learn how the blend came together. Limited spots available so please sign up early.
What are you doing the Friday before Cinco De Mayo? No excuses to not come to experience this rare opportunity and exquisite tasting of Herradura tequilas. It’ll be all gone by Saturday.
so I did and that’s what I got at the 2024 San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024. Kings Code Batch 1 Riona snagged a Gold Medal in this year’s competition. If you haven’t met Riona (Gaelic for Queen), you should. Kings Code is a project in collaboration with Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, NY. It started as a proof of concept project that Colin Spoelman, Laura Graham and I came up with to see if it would fly. Well, fly I did, to Europe, Cork, Ireland in particular to buy some exceptional whiskies to put in the blend. Then off I went to Lovingston, Virginia, to scoop up some of the best American Single Malts I could lay my palate on.
Back at the Blending Lab (aka spare bedroom), I tasted and drew some cryptic diagrams. I concocted this blend to grab your attention. From the start, she lures you in with the prettiest nose from the American Single Malt in an STR cask. She fills and arrests your palate with American Single Malts in ex-bourbon cask and Pedro Ximénez cask. Her finish is powered by Clonakilty Irish Whiskey finished in Chateau d’Yquem Sauternes cask. Delicate stone fruit, peach and nectarine, white flowers linger in the back. Despite the youth of the components, this blend shows balance, elegance and complexity.
Grab a bottle or two while they are still available. I made only 800 of them. You can buy them in fine whisky stores in CT, MA, RI and at Kings County Distillery. You can get a pour at the bars that know their whiskies.
In CT, The Store Bar & Grill in Torrington, The Engine room in Mystic, Vinted in West Hartford, Zinc in New Haven, Flinders in Stamford.
In RI, the Courtland Club and the GCB (Graduate Center Bar) at Brown University.
PS look for Kings Code Batch 2 A Touch of Bessie this June. She’s smoking hot and older than Riona.
Yes, Middle West Whiskies is what we’ll be tasting today. No surprises that this part of the country has produced lots of good whiskies, but these ones are distilled and aged in Columbus, Ohio instead of Indiana and Kentucky. If you’ve never had them or heard of them, then all the more reason to stop in for a taste. Other than the bourbon cream, which is delicious by the way, I think we bought everything that was available in CT a couple of months ago. You know what that means!