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Review: The Deerslayer Venison Flavored Whiskey

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New Hampshire’s Tamworth Distilling focuses on unusual oddities. We beforehand lined its Graverobber Rye, flavored with maple syrup drawn from timber grown adjoining to a graveyard. We missed out, nonetheless, on its corpse flower brandy in addition to its whiskey flavored with beaver musk.

A latest arrival at Drinkhacker HQ nonetheless was Tamworth’s Deerslayer (aka Deer Slayer), which isn’t merely a whimsical identify: It’s actually flavored with venison (and extra). Let’s get Tamworth to clarify:

The Deerslayer is a whiskey flavored with the natural world of New Hampshire in autumn — specifically, venison. We sourced our pink deer venison from a neighborhood New Hampshire farm, then hand-chopped the meat and tossed it with cranberries, porcini mushrooms, juniper berries, and inexperienced peppercorns. After fermenting in a single day to intensify the meat’s delectable gaminess, it’s then slow-smoked over a mixture of seasoned branches from New Hampshire’s boreal forests. A 3-year outdated white wheat whiskey serves as a lighter-bodied whiskey spine, permitting the really distinctive flavoring to shine by means of after its closing distillation in our rotary evaporator.  Savory and smoky notes characterize this one-of-a-kind spirit, with a delicate spice on the palate and a lingering end.

A tasty gaminess, eh? There’s just one method to see how this all seems…

The nostril is sharp however not instantly meaty. Fairly, it’s fairly smoky, vaguely earthy, and daring with barrel notes — however not one of the oddball ingredient current within the description instantly comes into focus. The exception is pepper, which hits the nostril with a powerful black pepper (relatively than inexperienced) observe after a second in glass.

The palate is uncommon however curious, equal elements participating, sharp, and rustic. The bottom spirit is clearly very younger — a 3 12 months outdated wheat whiskey, as famous above — and the granary parts instantly dominate. In reality, no matter flavorings are within the combine are fairly overpowered by the whiskey itself. Give it time nonetheless and a sure meatiness does certainly emerge because the end evolves, in addition to a barely candy component that hints at pink berries (although nothing I might peg as cranberry). It’s gritty however totally drinkable, and all in all, it stands as tremendous bizarre stuff, although it’s by no means off-putting. I suppose that in the proper temper it’d maybe evoke a way of hanging out in a wintry deer blind, doused in animal urine as you hope to make a kill. In a great way, in fact.

99 proof.

B / $65 (200ml) / tamworthdistilling.com

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