Metallica have added a new whiskey to their Blackened American line called – wait for it – Rye The Lightning. RYE. Do you get it?
RYE THE LIGHTNING. Because it’s a rye whiskey and Metallica have an album called ‘Ride The Lightning’, you see? It’s clever.Now, to make this brew, they didn’t just bung a mixture of existing whiskeys into some barrels and hope for the best.
Well, I guess they did, but that’s blended whiskey for you. But it was a bit more involved than that.Blackened American distiller Rob Bietrich took some Kentucky straight rye whiskeys aged between five and eight years, mixed them up, then popped it all in some Madeira wine casks for a couple of weeks, and then some Caribbean rum casks for another fourteen weeks.
See? It’s a whole process.And that’s not all, either. If you did that, you’d just have some blended whiskey, which, while it might be good, wouldn’t have that Metallica twang, would it?
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