US Midwest Distilleries (Broom's Book)

Question 1

Middle West Spirits

Answer 1

-Columbus, OH
-first release was 95% wheat
-Corn is open-pollinated non-GMO Yellow
-Bourbon (63C/13 Pumpernickle Rye/ 5% MB)
-Rye is 80% Rye / 10% Corn/5% Wheat/5% MB

Question 2

Journeyman Distillery

Answer 2

-Michigan (second distillery in Valporaison IN)
-Now focus on Rye (60R/35W/5MB)

Question 3

Starlight

Answer 3

-Huber family moved from winemaking to whisky in 1990’s
-Dave Pickrell consultant
-Sweet Lancaster white corn and bloody butcher
-Three grain (60C/20R/20MB),
-Four grain (55C/20R/20MB/5W)

Question 4

MGP / Ross & Squibb History

Answer 4

-Same distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana

-MGP founded in 1941 as industrial alcohol producer in Kansas by Cloud L Gray
-Bought by Seagram’s in 1933
-when Seagram’s broke up Pernod Ricard owned breifly MGP bought in 2011

Question 5

MGP Five Bourbon Mash Bills

Answer 5

-MGP sources whiskey to 50 distilleries/brands
-one of the largest producers in US
-clients choose from 5 mash bills
-99% Corn
-High Rye (36%)
-Low Rye (21%)
-High barley (49%)
-45% wheat

Question 6

MGP Six Whiskey Mash Bills

Answer 6

-clients choose from 6 mash bills
-95% Wheat
-95% Rye
-51% Rye
-100% Malted Barley
-99% Corn (Light)
-Corn and 15% Rye

Question 7

Ross & Squibb (MGP own brands)

Answer 7

-in 2021 MGP bought Kentucky-based Luxco
-sell own brands
-Rossville Union Rye
-George Remus Bourbon
-Eight & Sand blended Bourbon
-Also, with Luxco on board includes Bardstown Lux Row Distillery brands
-Blood Oath, Ezra Brooks

Question 8

What is the Kentucky Distillery owned by MGP?

Answer 8

-Limestone Brach distillery in Lebanon, KY
-Yellowstone and Minor Case

Question 9

FEW Distillery

Answer 9

-Evanston, IL
-Evanston was home to Women’s Christian Temprace Movement and their leader-Francis Elizabeth Willard (F.E.W)
-Few Founded by Paul Hletko in 2011
-Belgian Saison Yeast
-Rye is 70R/20C/10MB

Question 10

Koval

Answer 10

-Founded in Chicago in 2008
-water from lake Michigan (charcoal filtered)
-Bourbon uses 49% Millet to balance 51% Corn
-Four grain mash bill with oats, malted barley, rye, wheat
-100% Oats and 100% Millet whiskies

Question 11

Cedar Ridge

Answer 11

-Withrop, Iowa in 2005
-first in state since prohibition
-corn coming from family farm makes up 70% of Bourbon mash bill

Question 12

Union Horse

Answer 12

-Kansas City, Kansas
-Founded by Garcia family in 2010

Question 13

Midwest Distilleries

Answer 13

Middlewest (OH)
Journeyman (MI)
Starlight (IN)
MGP (IN)
Ross & Squibb (IN)
FEW (IL)
Koval (IL)
Cedar Ridge (IA)
Union Horse (KS)