GREEN HAT STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY | Washington DC 750 ML

GREEN HAT STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY | Washington DC 750 MLGreen Hat Rye is distilled by the New Columbia Distillers, LLC in Washington D. C. It is a very interesting product because the distillery was founded as a gin distillery. Green Hat Gin is their flagship product with several different versions of the gin available in the D. C. market. The distiller and co owner, Michael Lowe, decided he wanted to make some rye whiskey and add it to his brand portfolio. Thus, Green Hat Rye was created. The rye is a

Green Hat Rye is distilled by the New Columbia Distillers, LLC in Washington D.C. It is a very interesting product because the distillery was founded as a gin distillery. Green Hat Gin is their flagship product with several different versions of the gin available in the D.C. market. The distiller and co-owner, Michael Lowe, decided he wanted to make some rye whiskey and add it to his brand portfolio. Thus, Green Hat Rye was created. The rye is a very interesting whiskey. Michael told me that he is using 73% rye and 27% malted barley. The malt is also broken down to about half distiller’s malt and half brewer’s malt. It gives the rye its own unique characteristics. I think it would be interesting to see him make it with a small percentage of the brewer’s malt also being caramel or chocolate malt.

This product is available in the Washington D.C. area, but I am not sure where else it is distributed. If you are in the D.C. area, you should pick up a bottle of their rye and if you are a gin drinker, their gin is very good as well.

Green Hat Rye

Proof: 90

Age: 3 Years Old

Nose: Very simple nose. Very malty with vanilla and green apple and oak.

Taste: Green apples, vanilla, rye grass and a hint of nutmeg, oak and malt. When tasted with a dried cranberry the apple becomes more of a ripe apple with lots of vanilla and oak. The pecan enhances the malty notes and the nutmeg spice.

Finish: Long with lots of malt and oak – very beer-like. The cranberry made the finish shorter and sweeter with apple and spice and only a hint of oak. The pecan also made the finish sweet, bringing out a lot of malt sweetness with only a hint of oak, again very beer-like.