It should be no surprise to anyone that follows Seelbach’s that New Riff is one of our favorite distilleries. Even after several years of doing barrel picks with them, we are consistently impressed with their ability to have, for all intents and purposes, “craft” style hands-on with their production but at a consistency and efficiency that rivals the legacy brands.

Earlier this year when we were in for our barrel picks, after touring the facility and seeing the operation we went into their lab and noticed some of these Single Malt labeled bottled on the counter that seemed to match a few interesting barrels we spotted while walking through the rickhouses. When we asked, we learned that they’d been quietly aging several different Single Malts with various finishes over the last 7 years to work on a blend for public release. Trying what we tried then, we immediately knew this would be one of our favorite Single Malts of the year, but also knew we couldn’t talk about it much until it was time. Seeing the TTB labels surface and eventually the bottle coming to fruition, we are excited to finally offer the New Riff Single Malt.

About the Product: New Riff’s Sour Mash Single Malt Whiskey is a provocative new riff on the hallowed traditions of malted barley. Comprised of up to six different mashbills, and slowly matured in a multiplicity of cask types, this unprecedented whiskey welds Old World inspiration to Kentucky’s sour mash technique. Distilled in our column beer still and doubler, it weaves a wealth of malty flavors into oaken age: a bold new concept in the time-honored Kentucky whiskey regimen.