Shakers American Rye Vodka

The taste is nutty, grainy, with some bitter/mineral taste I can’t quite pinpoint. This is so grainy it’s reminiscent of a white dog. It feels chewy on the palate, and a little yeasty.

Shakers American Wheat Vodka

The mouth feel is a bit heavy and viscous with almost an oily feeling. There’s only light alcohol on the taste, with some sweet, some bitter and some trace of mineral salt tastes. There are hints of malt, as well. This is full and a bit heavy, as vodkas go.

Novo Fogo Gold Cachaça

This smooth cachaça tastes of brown sugar, ripe bananas, vanilla, butter toffee, earth, cinnamon and bananas Foster. The finish embraces the palate with a wonderful balance of salt, and a light lingering honey.

Novo Fogo Silver Cachaça

The taste is full and sweet and earthy, with banana, brown sugar, a touch of roasted peppers somewhere between sweet red bells and hot paprika, and Brazil nuts.

YeYo Silver Tequila

Yeyo has little to no harshness or alcohol to the nose. Instead it greets with an earthy sweetness, some lime, a touch of honey, and traces of what seems like mesquite smoke.

Slab Town Whiskey

House Spirits has unveiled their Slab Town Whiskey, after 4 years of maturation. It’s a light straw-color and soft in the mouth, especially for such a young whiskey.

Small’s Gin

Small’s Gin imparts sweet scents of juniper, cardamom, orange and lemon peels with a slight alcohol burn. There’s also a hint of mineral character to the nose, which seems a bit unusual.

Imbue

Imbue is a Oregon-produced small batch vermouth. It has a semi-sweet nose, with hints of sour apple and tarragon adding to the sweet-and-sour scent.

Review: Ransom Old Tom Gin

This is very interesting stuff. There is a lingering maltiness to the taste. I can taste that this gin is made from barley, of all things. If it wasn’t for the botanicals, this could taste like a somewhat warm-on-the-throat whiskey. The flavor does get overpowered later on with an almost camphor-like mouth feel, but the malty citrus-cardamom flavors are maintained.

Calisaya

While a good number of bars are making their own cocktail flavoring bitters, few folks in the states have dared to tread in the realm of bitters meant to be enjoyed as an apertiveo or digestivo.

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