Manassas native, Music Director for the Bret Michaels Band and Creator, Pete Evick, has teamed up with Manassas craft distiller KO Distilling to launch Naked Knuckle Evick Version Bourbon.
“This has been a deeply private course of to supply MY bourbon,” says Evick.
“We’re bottling this bourbon at 98 proof to symbolize the yr I signed my first report deal, and the barrels I selected from have been stuffed through the month of August, the month I used to be born. However a very powerful half is that the Evick Version is produced in my hometown of Manassas, Virginia.”
Naked Knuckle Evick Version Bourbon is hand-crafted from 70% corn, 20 % wheat and 10% malted barley, all sourced from native Virginia farms. It was double distilled and aged on-site at KO in charred new American Oak barrels from Kentucky.
“There’s no scarcity of movie star manufacturers as of late, and the one means we might think about such a partnership was to discover a connection that’s really genuine,” mentioned Invoice Karlson, Co-Founder and CEO of KO Distilling. “Each KO and Pete Evick are 100% Virginia made and each have deep ties to Manassas. And, the longer we labored collectively, we might see how engaged Pete was within the artwork of our craft.”
“We had an ideal Naked Knuckle Evick Version Bourbon launch at KO on July eighth. Lots of Pete’s associates, household and followers from throughout the nation confirmed as much as have fun this new Single Barrel bourbon that includes a picture of Pete taking part in his guitar on the label,” mentioned Karlson. “Pete personally signed all of the bottles bought. It has been a pleasure working with him on this undertaking.”
This new launch joins an ever-expanding portfolio which in the present day contains three American-style gins and eleven small batch American whiskeys. The Evick Version will initially be bought on the Distillery Retailer and may be shipped to Virginia residents. Future Evick Version Barrel Choose bottles will even be bought by an on-line retailer so others throughout the nation can take pleasure in this Single Barrel bourbon. So stayed “tuned.”
