Whiskey Queens

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November 11, 2020S2 Episode 1: We're back!
What Nick is drinking: Monkey Shoulder
Tasting notes: Smells sweet and smooth - vanilla notes and spice with a bit of citrus. There is a definite bite at the end that is almost a citrus rind flavor.
How To Taste Whiskey - A great, 5 minute read from Wine Enthusiast on how to best taste your whiskey and not kill your nose.
Simpler tasting wheel
What Paul is drinking: Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey
Vanilla & baking spices - there is a definite sweetness to the whiskey when tasting it. It also has a fresh smell on the nose that can be described as “fresh cut grass.”

NYT article touching on Nearest Green's impact on the whiskey world
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What we're (also) reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
49 min
October 21, 2020Episode 10: Ryes and Reflections
What Nick is drinking: A Tincup Manhattan
What Paul is drinking: Sagamore Signature Rye
Check out the distillery and their awesome mission to bring Rye back to Baltimore: Sagamore Spirit
In Review:
Don't forget the basics - we're drinking water, yeast, and a grain that's distilled and matured in casks, which lend the color and all those awesome vanilla and caramel notes!

A “mash bill” is really just referring to the ingredients in a particular whiskey

And the process:
Malting (if using malted barley)

Mashing

Fermentation

Distilling

Maturation

Finishing

Bottling

DRINKING
We'll be back on November 11th!
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What we're (also) reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
51 min
October 14, 2020Episode 9: Rye'd On Ptown Poney
What Nick is drinking: Pinhook Rye'd On
“Rye'd On” - 97 proof / 48.5% ABV

$38.99 in Provincetown, MA

20% corn / 20% malted barley / 60% rye

Nose: peach, spearmint, and cinnamon

Taste: cherry, toffee, and clove
“Pinhooking” is a term for purchasing young thoroughbreds, holding them until they mature, and selling them when they are ready to run.
What Paul is drinking: "The Queens' Manhattan" (A spin off a black manhattan which"
Recipe:
2 parts - One Eight Distilling District Made Rye Whiskey

1 part - Don Ciccio and Figli Cerasum Aperitivo

2 dashes of Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters

1 luxardo cherry
A little history on the "Black Manhattan"
Black Manhattan - Created by bartender Todd Smith when he worked at San Francisco’s Bourbon & Branch, the Black Manhattan recipe uses Averna in place of sweet vermouth—a groundbreaking move when it was created in 2005.
Averna Amaro - an Italian herbal liqueur made from an infusion of aromatic herbs, dried flowers, spices and liquorice
Created in 1868 for Salvatore Averna by herbalist monks of the San Spirito Abbey in Caltanissetta

First licensed spirit in Sicily and to this day remains one of the best selling amaros

Tattoo Healing - Saniderm
D'Vines in DC - located in Columbia Heights (our old neighborhood!)
Ptown! (Gay heaven)
P-Town blog post: https://www.wayfaring-images.com/post/provincetown-2018-vacationing-in-a-safe-space
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What we're (also) reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
42 min
October 07, 2020 Episode 8: (Pickleback) Shots! Shots! Shots!
Pickleback on Wikipedia!
The original pickleback: McClures Pickles + Old Crow (originated at the Bushwick Country Club in Brooklyn, NY)
What Nick is drinking: Jameson Irish Whiskey + Suckerpunch "Spicy Bread & Betters” pickle juice
What Paul is drinking: One Eight Distilling Rye + Number One Son’s Sunny Dill pickle juice
Paul's weekend distillery experience: Don Ciccio & Figli
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What we're (also) reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
30 min
September 30, 2020Episode 7: The Death Episode
What Nick is drinking: Jameson Irish Whiskey
Quick read on the history of Jameson - Culture Trip Article

What Paul is drinking: One Eight Distilling Rye
One Eight Distilling Drink Recipes
Details on the distillery at Mt. Vernon - George Washington's Distillery

What Nick is reading: Superlife by Darin Olien
What Paul was reading: Lake Fearless - Summer Stories by Wit Talcott

Shows mentioned:
Departures
Wiki
Down To Earth
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What we're (also) reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
53 min
September 23, 2020Episode 6: Grievances and soapboxes
What we’re drinking: Monkey Shoulder - check out the drink recipes!
Monkey Shoulder (~$33 in Maine) 43% ABV
A blended malt scotch whisky
Glenfiddich, Balvenie and Kininvie - hence the 3 monkeys

Cask type is ex-bourbon

Comprised of small batches of Speyside single malts, blended together in a marrying...tub….vat... for 3-6 months
What is a Speyside single malt? It is a single malt Scotch whisky, distilled in Strathspey, the area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland.

That region will always lend a butchscotch taste to the whisky

What is a marrying cask you ask? Basically a cask used to finish off and mature whiskey after its initial blending process

To Review: A condition that maltmen would develop because they essentially performed the same, repetitive motion every day of the week for hours on end - basically the person turning the malt could develop an elongated shoulder/arm from the repetitive motion they go through

In a company response email dated 2012 it was confirmed that they do add caramel coloring to the whiskey for the purpose of ensuring consistency.

Carmel coloring (E105a) is typically used to - as they said - ensure consistency across the bottling. Because they use previously used barrels the scotch doesn’t pull as much color from the wood.
Official Tasting Notes: Mellow vanilla - spicy hints
Official Nose Notes: Zesty orange, vanilla honey, spiced oak
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Michelle’s “Old Fashioned Manhattan” Recipe
After much research Michelle's rule is 1/2 sugar cube doused with 3 dashes of bitters/ 2oz preferred bourbon or rye. Glass rimmed with an orange (not garnished), and 2 luxardo cherries for garnish.

You’ll find it’s the perfect in between of a Manhattan and Old Fashioned, especially if you go with rye
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What we're reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
40 min
September 16, 2020 Episode 5: Love/Hate Cocktails
This week we're talking about our most loved and hated cocktail recipes and their mostly made up origins.
Classic Manhattan
2 ounces bourbon or rye
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 dash orange bitters
Garnish: brandied cherry
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a brandied cherry.
Paul's Manhattan
2 ounces Tincup whiskey
1 ounce dry vermouth
2 dashes cocoa bitters
Garnish: luxardo cherry
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled.
Strain into a glass.
Garnish with a luxardo cherry.
Classic Old Fashioned
1/2 teaspoon sugar
3 dashes Angostura bitters
1 teaspoon water
2 ounces bourbon
Garnish: orange peel
Add the sugar, bitters and water into a rocks glass, and stir until sugar is nearly dissolved.
Fill the glass with large ice cubes, add the bourbon, and gently stir to combine.
Express the oil of an orange peel over the glass, then drop in.
Nick's Old Fashioned
1/2 teaspoon sugar
3 coffee and pecan bitters
1 teaspoon espresso
2 ounces Tincup whiskey
Garnish: cherry
Add the sugar, bitters and espresso into a rocks glass, and stir until sugar is nearly dissolved.
Fill the glass with large ice cubes, add the whiskey, and gently stir to combine.
Garnish with cherry
What we're reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
33 min
September 09, 2020Episode 4: Tasting vocabulary for masquerading whiskies
This week we're talking about Copper Fox in Sperryville, VA
Specializing in a scotch-esk whisky created after the owner apprenticed at the Bowmore Distillery on the Isle of Islay off the western coast of Scotland

Tasting Notes for the American Single Malt:
Nose: aromas of suede, olive tapenade, honey and wood fire

Palate: dried mango chutney and clay with silky dry fruitiness, medium-full body

Finish: long and spicy, with wood smoke, orange marmalade on rye toast and root beer float

“Smokey and complex; a unique, distinctively flavorful, brawny and balanced whisky. A great choice for artisan cocktails or sipping”
American Single Malt Production:
100% hand malted Virginal barley

Dried with hand-cut apple wood and cherry wood smoke

Double pot-distilled

Mature in ex-bourbon barrels with infusions of toasted apple wood and oak chips

48% ABV/96 Proof
Tasting Wheel - the Whiskey Queens’ merged wheel
Traditional Tasting Wheel (plus a great color chart)
Tasting Wheel w/ easy to understand descriptors
Woody

Winey

Cereal

Fruity

Floral

Peaty

Fenty

Sulphury

Spice (not part of the traditional wheel, but we think it’s an important additional after reading through “The Complete Whiskey Course”
What we're reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
50 min
September 02, 2020Episode 3: Blending it back to basics, state-side...
This week we're talking about Tincup American Whiskey out of Denver, Colorado.
What is whisk(e)y and how is whisk(e)y made?
Water, yeast, and grain to start!

First we malt (if using barley) - get that barley partially germinated

Then we mash - stir it all up and make grain soup

Then we ferment - let the yeast feast and get some alcohol brewing

Followed by distilling - getting down to the good stuff

Toss it in a wooden barrel/cask and let it sit until the magic happens

Maybe "finish" it in another wooden cask (more magic)

Bottle it

DRINK IT
A couple of more eloquent resources:
Reading

Watching
What we're reading: The Complete Whiskey Course
Heather Greene on Epicurious
Corporate Overloads: Proximo Spirits + MGP Ingredients (MGP via the amazing Wikipedia)
Cocktail Corner - bourbon recipe from "The Bar Book"
Blizzard
3oz bourbon or blended whiskey (which Tincup is a blended whiskey)

1oz cranberry juice

½ oz lemon juice

1 oz simple syrup (sub for honey, agave, syrup)

Lemon slice
Shake with ice, strain into an ice-filled old fashioned glass - garnish with lemon
The cranberry and lemon should balance the sweetness from the simple syrup and the whiskey
Our ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
53 min
August 26, 2020 Episode 2: Single Malts, Corporate Overloads, and Cheetos - Oh My
This week we're talking about Dingle Distillery in Dingle, Ireland and Talisker Distillery in Carbost, Loch Harport, Scotland.
What Nick was drinking: Dingle Distillery Single Malt Batch #4
What Paul was drinking: Talisker Select Reserver
Corporate Overloads Pernod Ricard + Diageo
The ultimate goal adventure: The Irish Whiskey Academy
Our Instagram handles:
The Show @thewhiskeyqueens | Paul @pdashton | Nick @wayfaringandwhiskey
Visit us at www.whiskeyqueens.com
53 min

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Enter Paul and Nick - Two queens talking about their love of whiskey while educating themselves along the way -- littered with social, political, and personal commentary.

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