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On today's episode we have a glass of Barrel Seagrass! We Continue our unique finishing series with Special Guest Blake from the club! We talk about Apricot Brandy, the Ocean Foundation, and does finishing save a bad whiskey? All that and more on today's episode of Whiskey Chasers!
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The Ocean Foundation: https://oceanfdn.org/
- Barrel Craft Spirits
- Founded by Joe Beatrice
- Started as an early tech entrepreneur Helping businesses get online
- Was a home brewer
- After trying a whiskey straight from the barrel for the first time desided to get into the whiskey world
- Does only Cast strength releases
- Very proud and open about sourcing
- Founded in 2013
- Founded in Louisville, KY
- The heart of whiskey in the US. Since they planned on sourcing from the start seemed wise to be in the middle of it
- I cant not mention that their newest C Suite Employee is Chris Riesbeck as Cheif Commercial Officer
- Coming from Westward in Seatle and played a big part in helping them become a main name in American Single Malt and also the youngest american to hold the “Keeper of the Quaich” in scotland
- An organization that recognizes people that have Shown outstanding commitment the Scotch Whisky
- Possibly an american single malt from them?
- They have American Vatted Malt, A Blend of malted whiskeys
- A “Vatted Malt” is a term meaning it is a blend of only single malts by scotch producers
- Tasting
- The bottle- Barrel Seagrass
- Partnered with the Ocean Foundation and part of the money goes to helping restore seagrass in the Ocean
- Seagrass helps shrink waves to make storm and huricane damage less, as well as holding water to lower the risk of flooding.
- Ocean Foundation also is using it as a “Blue Carbon” tool. Saying that it is a way of helping to lower climate change by planting it to offset emmissions.
- A mix of american and canadian but reading it sounds like they are making it the canadiann way of aging each ingredient and finishing them separately before blending them
- The look of the bottle
- Basic but different
- Rounded bottle
- Labels are pastel but bland
- What is written on it
- Notes on why it looks the way it does
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