MGP had a busy 2021. It started the 12 months with the acquisition of Luxco and its spectacular household of spirits producers which now handle the George Remus and Rossville Union whiskey manufacturers. Then they completed the 12 months with a wholesale renaming of their campus in Lawrenceburg, Indiana the place these manufacturers are produced. Whereas the brand new title, Ross & Squibb, sounds a bit like a Sesame Avenue duo, it’s truly a mashup of two of Lawrenceburg’s earliest distilleries (Rossville and Squibb). On the very least, it’s memorable and fewer industrial than “MGP.”
Alias Straight Rye Whiskey is the primary new product from the whiskey-makers previously generally known as MGP. Not like the 95/5 rye mashbill that put the distillery on the trendy whiskey map, Alias is made out of a barely rye recipe of 51% rye, 45% corn, and 4% malted barley which additionally options within the Rossville Union line. And the title? A primary within the trade, so far as I do know, it pays tribute to early feminine distilling pioneers, a lot of whom used an alias to cover their gender so as to personal and function distilleries. Let’s test it out.
Whereas Ross & Squibb haven’t given us an age assertion, the intense, golden shade on this rye suggests it isn’t a lot older than the four-year minimal. The nostril is gentle with earthy, delicately candy notes of uncooked honey, caramel corn, refined orchard fruit, and a few muted spice. On the palate, there’s a beneficiant sweetness, virtually candy-like at occasions, but it surely’s not overly sticky or viscous. A little bit of daring rye spice on the outset dissipates shortly to notes of brown butter, cinnamon sugar, and marshmallow. A warming spice returns on the lingering end highlighted by light notes of caramel sauce, drying oak, and mint syrup. As high-corn ryes go, this isn’t something outdoors of the peculiar. However it’s well-executed and, in a world more and more full of expensive new whiskey, a surprisingly strong worth.
90 proof.
B+ / $28 / aliaswhiskey.com
Alias Straight Rye Whiskey
$28
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