‘Back to the Gilded Age’: New Riff Draws on Historic Influences for New Bottled In Bond Bourbon and Rye Releases

On Friday, New Riff Distilling announced the release of two new whiskeys: a bourbon and a rye. Ol' New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and Ol' New Riff Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey are both Bottled in Bond without chill filtration.

“Our whiskey makers examined every facet of the production process and tweaked all the dials back to the Gilded Age when Greater Cincinnati ruled the whiskey market,” New Riff Distilling co-founder and Vice President Jay Erisman said in a news release. “The 19th century-style barrels were produced without modern kiln-drying, and heirloom Ohio Valley grains including Blue Clarage and Yellow Leaming corn and our acclaimed Balboa Rye were mashed into a classic bourbon grain bill with higher malted barley content.”

Ol' New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is distilled from a mashbill of 60% heirloom corn, 26% balboa rye and 14% malted barley, while its sister spirit rye is made from 65% balboa rye, 30% heirloom corn and 15% malted barley.

“We were inspired to consider how New Riff’s water supply and production facility would taste if we could go back in time,” Erisman said. “Suppose New Riff could have existed 120 years ago? And made whiskey the way they did back then — what would that taste like, using our aquifer water and our location and equipment? We did everything we could to emulate the mindset of a Northern Kentucky distiller circa 1900.”

Both whiskeys have a suggested retail price of $54.99 and will be available beginning this Thursday exclusively for pickup through New Riff's Whiskey Club. Following that launch, it will be available in limited quantities across Kentucky retailers and at the Aquifer Tasting Room at New Riff's distillery. In March, New Riff released an 8-year-old bourbon — its oldest to date. [botmc-promo]