Journeyman Distillery’s Corsets, Whips and Whiskey cask-strength wheat whiskey just lately took dwelling excessive honors from the 2022 ASCOT (American Spirits Council of Tasters) Awards, together with Double Platinum, Greatest Wheat Whiskey, and Greatest in Class: Whiskey of the Yr.
The model’s Silver Cross 4 Grain Whiskey earned a Gold Medal on this 12 months’s awards as nicely.
Journeyman Distillery’s wheat whiskey beat out 800 submissions for Greatest in Present. To be honored with these awards, it needed to be tasted alongside bourbon, Scotch, Irish and Tennessee whiskey.
Journeyman Distillery’s Corsets, Whips and Whiskey (picture through Journeyman)
“This is sort of a minor-league staff beating the Yankees on the World Sequence … that is Wealthy Strike profitable the Kentucky Derby,” mentioned Fred Minnick, founding father of the ASCOT Awards and famous whiskey author. “For the primary time in any main spirits competitors, a wheat whiskey was judged to be greatest.”
An announcement from the distiller famous that Corsets, Whips and Whiskey showcases the standard and terroir of natural Michigan wheat, providing a delicate, candy smoothness from the wheat farm straight behind the distillery and aquifer that flows simply beneath the Featherbone Manufacturing facility.
“Journeyman began in 2010 and was constructed on the core precept of ‘All the time a Journeyman.’ A mindset of by no means a grasp however at all times in pursuit of distilling excellence,” mentioned Invoice Welter, founding father of Journeyman Distillery. “It’s superb to have competed with a few of the true masters of the commerce and to have fared so nicely.”
The ASCOT Awards is a contest created by spirits character Fred Minnick, which highlights spirits from throughout the globe. Submissions underwent a blind style check by a panel of industry-leading specialists, who then decided winners for each particular person classes and the Greatest in Present.
Judges embody Minnick; writer, bar proprietor, and educator Martin Cate; the world’s first feminine Grasp Bourbon Taster and founding father of the nationwide group Bourbon Ladies Peggy Noe Stevens; educator and particular occasions bartender Tiffanie Barriere; world-renowned mixologist and spirits {industry} educator Francesco Lafranconi; craft cocktail entrepreneur Denaya Jones; and writer and bourbon columnist Susan Reigler.
