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HIDDEN WHISKEY GEM! Cedar Ridge QuintEssential & Single Cask! 

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🔥 Iowa Whiskey DISCOVERY! 🔥 We’re diving headfirst into the award-winning world of Cedar Ridge Distillery in Swisher, Iowa! 🌾 Get ready for a DOUBLE dose of American Single Malt magic as we review their flagship QuintEssential American Single Malt (the legend!) AND a rare gem from their Single Cask Series – Ex-Bourbon Cask! 🥃 Join us as we unlock the hidden flavors of Iowa’s FIRST distillery since Prohibition (yes, you heard that right!). We’re talking deep dives into the nose, palate, and ALL the delicious details. Will these bottles live up to the hype? Will we find a new favorite? 🤔 Hit play to find out! 

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✴️ The QuintEssential American Single Malt Whiskey

The richness of our American Single Malt Whiskey is strengthened by our immediate access to fresh, once-used barrels from a variety of sources, including our own wine and Port casks. The complexity of The QuintEssential develops as we add each unique finishing cask in the proper proportion. There is an element of interest or surprise being incorporated into the overall blend with each addition from our arsenal of complex casks. 

  • 🥃Classification: American Single Malt Whiskey
  • Distillery: Cedar Ridge Distillery
  • Mash Bill: 100% 2-Row Pale Malted Barley
  • Age: NAS (at least 4-5 Years Old)
  • Proof: 92
  • MSRP: $59.99
  • Released: 2021
  • Other: Batch 008
  • Purchased: 01/10/25 for $59.99 online from Cedar Ridge

✴️ The QuintEssential Single Cask Series – Ex-Bourbon Cask

The QuintEssential Single Cask Series explores our award winning American Single Malt in our most unique single cask selections. Aged in an ex-bourbon cask to highlight the unique flavors of our American Single Malt Whiskey in its truest form. The barrels were hand-selected by Murphy Quint, Master Distiller & Master Blender of Cedar Ridge, and release as single barrels at true cask strength.

  • 🥃Classification: American Single Malt Whiskey
  • Distillery: Cedar Ridge Distillery
  • Mash Bill: 100% 2-Row Pale Malted Barley
  • Age: 7 Years
  • Proof: 124.3
  • MSRP: $69.99
  • Released: 2024
  • Other: Cask 15-56
  • Purchased: 01/10/25 for $79.99 online from Cedar Ridge

Cedar Ridge Distillery: https://cedarridgedistillery.com/ 

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NOTE: The spirits in this review were purchased by us. We were not compensated by the spirit producer for this review. This is simply our opinion based on what we tasted on this day. Please drink responsibly.

American Single Malt Whiskey

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May 12, 2024
By Rebecca Herman McBrayer

American single malt whiskey is a fast-growing category in the United States. According to a 2022 Forbes article, more than 100 distilleries were producing over 200 American single malt expressions. The numbers of distilleries in now over 130. This brief note explores some of the requirements for this spirit category.

American Single Malt Whiskey Commission (ASMWC)

The American Single Malt Whiskey Commission (ASMWC) was formed in 2016 to address the growing need for American-based producers to define the category—both domestically and internationally—in order to protect, educate, promote and ultimately grow it. The ASMWC has been instrumental in getting this spirit category an identity as well as proposed standards.

The ASMWC has a terrific Press Page if you have an interest in reading related articles.

American Single Malt Whiskey Requirements

July 29, 2022 – In response to requests and petitions, specifically from the ASMWC, the TTB proposed establishing a specific standard of identity for American single malt whisky. From the Federal Register, there was a notice of proposed rule making and the following summary:

“The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) proposes to amend the regulations that set forth the standards of identity for distilled spirits to include “American single malt whisky” as a type of whisky that is a distinctive product of the United States.”

Under the proposal, to be labeled American single malt whisky, the product must be:

1) Distilled entirely at one U.S. distillery
2) Must be mashed, distilled, aged in the United States
3) Must be sourced from a fermented mash of 100% malted barley
4) Have a distillation proof of 160° or less
5) Stored in oak barrels not exceeding 700 liters. 

In addition, allowable coloring, flavoring, and blending materials would be permitted.    

I hope that this brief note brought clarification regarding American Single Malt Whiskey.
Rebecca