We feel that the clean, spicy finish of distilled rye makes for the finest and most interesting straight drinking vodka. Rye is a traditional crop of the mid-Atlantic as well as the most commonly used grain in the ancient origins of vodka in Eastern Europe. We use Russian filtering technology for an even smoother finish but make no mistake, this is a vodka with character. Keep an eye out for future limited releases of special infused vodkas.
Despite coming from the same parents with similar ingredients, our Barrel Rested Gin is bold and assertive with a high enough proof to be considered the wild child of the family. Spending several months in a combination of ex-bourbon and charred, new American oak barrels, this gin emerges golden in color and full of the sweeter notes typically associated with whiskey. Created to shine through even the most robust cocktail ingredients, this will become your go-to gin for a Negroni or to add another layer of flavor to your standard whiskey cocktail.
Untitled Whiskey No. 9 is a six year-old wheated bourbon blended and finished for 8 months in Limousin French oak Calvados casks. This is a bourbon that reads like a fruit forward Speyside Scotch. Months in Calvados casks impart a dry minerality, with toasted oak and crisp apple notes.
Untitled Whiskey No. 3 is a unique local collaboration. We loaned freshly emptied bourbon barrels to Vigilante Coffee roasters. They aged a roasted Sumatran coffee bean in one barrel and a green Sumatran bean in the other barrel. For our No. 3, we refilled the barrel that held roasted coffee beans with our sourced Tennessee sour mash creating a smoky whiskey with notes of bittersweet chocolate and roasted coffee; the after-dinner drink has been redefined!
Sometimes the right ingredient makes all the difference. In a world seemingly always looking for the next culinary trend, our bourbon looks to an ingredient from the past, namely Hickory King Corn. Developed in the 1880s in the hollows of Virginia, the large white kernels of Hickory King quickly became highly prized for grits and hominy and shortly thereafter for its highest calling: whiskey. District Made Bourbon is the first bourbon made from grain to glass in DC since Prohibition, and we strive to produce a bourbon worthy of that distinction. Ours is a four-grain bourbon that deftly balances the sweetness typical of bourbon with a complexity derived from diverse secondary grains and malts.
Untitled Whiskey No. 6 is a nine year-old high-rye bourbon blended and finished in Cognac, Muscat, and Oloroso sherry casks here at the distillery. The nose hints of leather, French oak, vanilla and dried apricots. Opening with Cognac and spice forward rye on the palate, the bourbon gives way to sweeter notes of maple, raisins and blackberries.
The first grain to glass rye whiskey distilled, aged, and bottled in the District since Prohibition. Distilled in small batches in a copper pot still and matured in the highest quality new American oak barrels, Rock Creek Rye is bottled at 94 proof, making it ideal for enjoying neat or in a favorite cocktail. With none of the grassy notes of a young rye, this is a full-bodied whiskey with the spicy characteristics of rye balanced with a little sweetness and rich malted flavors.