How to Taste Whiskey with Stoll & Wolfe Distillery

We are here at Stoll & Wolfe Distillery in the tasting room. It's in a renovated 1850s crane mill that we're actually using to go ahead and produce whiskey again here in Lancaster county. We're here today to talk about tasting whiskey and some tips and tricks you can use to host your own whiskey tasting at home. So we've selected our Stoll & Wolfe Pennsylvania rye whiskey today. All the color that's in here is basically coming from the barrel and the way it was aged out. So what you're looking for ideally are some sort of darker, almost hay like color. Another thing that we're going to be able to note is the clarity of it. If there's a little bit of haze in some of the whiskeys that may be because it's a higher proof; maybe the way it was filtered. Also as you go through you'll notice the viscosity and basically that's how it's going to adhere both to itself and also to the side of the glass. The nice thing about the glass is it's actually designed so you can go ahead and swirl it and get a little bit of air in there. It's also designed so that this will concentrate the aroma as well so you can go ahead and start up top and then gradually work your way in a little bit. You may actually even have some images that come to mind; does it smell maybe like your grandmother's kitchen? Maybe it smells like a particular time of year or particular place. I like to break it down into three sips. With the first sip what you're predominately going to notice is the burn of the alcohol. With that second sip you're gonna wanna go ahead and start to note more of the character of the whiskey now that the burn has dissipated. As you take the third sip try and note the beginning, the middle and the end. How does that feel? Is it dry? Is it fiery? Is it trying to fight it's way back out? Ideally the best whiskeys will take those individual notes and pull them together. Again, know there's no wrong way to do it as long as you're having fun and learning a little something along the way. Cheers.

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