Whiskey Intelligence say, “The finished taste profile is a mature and truly well-rounded flavour, with a pleasant sweetness, an undercurrent of fruit spice and delicate vanilla and mocha notes. The Whiskey Thief uses a completely new and unique ageing process that fuses innovation and tradition to create a rich, more mature flavour, that balances richness and spice, perfect for both sipping or mixing with your favourite bourbon cocktail. At the same time, we’ve used our own innovative, natural, techniques to help our liquid age that little bit faster, a process we refer to as “stealing time.” Hence The Whisky Thief. A master distiller will then decide how much longer the liquid needs to remain in the barrel in order to achieve it’s unique and desired taste. A whiskey thief is a copper tool, similar to a pipette or a straw, used by master distillers to check the flavour of a barrel. We like to think we’ve also had a hand in advancing that proud bourbon tradition, because the Whiskey Thief is not your ordinary bourbon and there’s a cheeky little clue in it’s name.
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Two years of research, three years in a barrel, plus a couple of months making it’s way across the Atlantic and the Whiskey Thief made it to our shores and on to our back bar, sitting proudly amongst over two hundred years of American distilling experience. So before heading to SXSW one year, we stopped off at MGP Distillery in Lawrenceberg, Indianna and committed our first 80 barrels. A blood test will also probably give you the same indication.Īfter visiting Kentucky and it’s myriad of distillers on about ten separate occasions we decided in 2011 that the next logical step would be to get our hands dirty and make our own bourbon. The tour is not super long, and afterwards we headed to the tasting room for a really fun experience.It’s no secret that we at the Lexington are massive fans of Bourbon, it’s been at the core of the drinks we sell since we opened our doors back in 2009 and you only have to look at our back bar to see just how much of an emphasis we put on the stuff. We tasted four of their products with mood lighting and ambient sound to accompany each one, plus 'scent orbs' that we could smell to enhance the flavors of each! We hadn't done a tasting like this before and I thought it was cool! We are also big fans of their products, the rye is my favorite affordable rye out there! The tour is not super long, and afterwards we headed to the tasting room for a really fun experience.
Our tour guide was engaging and did a great job, I just think the nature of Bulleit's facilities make it a less informative experience than a lot of other distilleries. They did have some neat displays about the yeast strains and column distilling that I had not seen before.
However you don't get to see as much of the process as you might on other tours. The coolest part of the tour was hearing about some of the things that Bulleit does differently since they are new, modern, and dedicated to being more eco-friendly. is the first Kentucky distillery to offer every visitor a single-barrel experience, with the opportunity to fill their own bottle using the distiller’s tool that is known as a whiskey thief. We've been on many bourbon trail tours and this one was probably one of the least informative, but the tasting at the end was the most unique and fun one we've done! The tour starts out by bussing you from the visitor center to their distilling facilities.
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