13th Colony Double Oak Batch 3 vs Batch 2 Is it better? Is it any good? And a bit of a #rant.
Today i tired the band new 13th Colony Double Oak Batch 3, and put it up against the Double Oak Batch 2. I alos have a bit of a rant about 13th Colony lack of transparency and there labeling. https://www.13thcolonydistillery.com/... In 2009, 13th Colony Distilleries opened in Americus, GA becoming the oldest operating distillery since Prohibition in the state. It all began as a group of friends set out to make holiday gifts for their families and loved ones. Well, as you can imagine, what started as a few bottles became a love affair with liquor. Soon after a question was posed, “If we make liquor for the friends we know, should we make it for the friends we don’t know yet?”. That question led Thirteenth Colony to a decade plus long dream of distilling. We are a family-owned and operated distillery. We pride ourselves on sourcing local and regional materials whenever possible: everything from using corn from our own private farm and water from the oldest aquifer in the southeast. We strive to bring these amazing resources together to create truly unique and inspired spirits. What Makes Us Unique: South Georgia's climate is ideal for aging spirits. Hot temperatures and huge temperature swings cause expansion and contraction in the barrel pulling out intense flavor. Other distillers climatize their rickhouses to emulate these swings…we just open the doors! Americus has natural Heat Cycles with +20 degree swings year round Changes in temperature (called the Heat Cycle) within the rick house are a major factor in moving the aging liquor in and out of pores in the barrel wood. As it gets hotter, the whiskey expands, seeping into the pores of the barrels and reacting with the oak to extract color, character, and aroma. When the whiskey cools, it shrinks, letting the whiskey flow back out of the wood along with all those extracted compounds from the barrel. https://www.ttb.gov/laws-regulations-.... Section 35(e) of Regulations No. 5 provides that labels of whisky and straight whisky shall disclose the State of distillation of such whisky, if such whisky is not distilled in the State given in the address on the label. This section further provides that the brand label shall show the State of distillation in all cases where the Assistant Regional Commissioner finds that without such statement the label is misleading as to the State of actual distillation. Join this channel to get access to perks: / @housebourbon Buy Cool Stuff! https://jekservicesco.com/products/ho... https://jekservicesco.com/products/ho... Follow me on instagram / house_bourbon And TikTok / housebourbon #bourbon #whiskey #13thColony #bourbontube #doubleoak #thisvsthat #review #tasting