Damn, I’m tired.
I’m not sure if you noticed this, but I am a wonderful husband. So much so that I took today “off” from work in order to build my wife a permanent fence around her garden. Well, start building anyway. This is going to be a much bigger job than I had anticipated when I told her that my building this was her Mother’s Day present. Today I used an auger to dig 14 two-foot holes and put in 14 posts. If I had good soil, it probably wouldn’t have taken as long (or been nearly as hard) but I live on clay. Very wet clay.
The good news is that if I ever decide to get into pottery, I have all I would ever need just a few inches below the surface of my yard.
Luckily for me, my wife is an amazing wife too. As I finished cleaning up and sat down to write, a Sazerac magically appeared at hand. She decided that I needed to have a post-work cocktail. And knowing what I was writing about tonight, she used that.
George Dickel Rye is the whiskey that made me realize that I’d never reviewed most of the Dickel lineup. I seriously thought I had. I bought it right after it came out for the express purpose of reviewing it. It was an era when most of the rye coming out was from MGP. This probably was as well, though I doubt anyone actually admitted as much. But I remember that the word on the street was that they bought it fully aged and then ran it through charcoal. Kinda the opposite of the Lincoln County process that Dickel usually uses.
But I wanted to see what the filtering did to the product. At the time, I really didn’t notice much and I’ve bought it as a cocktail rye off and on since. And yes, the entire time, I thought I had reviewed it. So here I am finally making up for lost time and letting you know what I think of one of my rotating cocktail ryes (I guess that might be a hint right there).
George Dickel Rye Whiskey
Purchase Info: $24.99 for a 750 mL bottle at Village Liquors, Prior Lake, MN
Price per Drink (50 mL): $1.67
Details: 95% Rye whiskey mash. 45% ABV. Filtered through maple charcoal.
Nose: Cedar, mint, hints of brown sugar.
Mouth: Brown sugar, mint, cedar.
Finish: Gentle and on the shorter end of medium length. Notes of mint, baking spice, and a hint of maple.
Thoughts: I like this one as a cocktail rye. It has a lot of the typical 95% Rye-Style flavor notes but is just a bit sweeter than I like my rye to be when I sip on it. I really like it in an Old Fashioned or Sazerac though.
OK. Now. I am off to take my second shower of the day because, honestly, I stink.
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