One of us LOVES a gift shop, particularly if it’s stocked with pretty bottles of booze and booze adjacent products. This beautifully packaged and labeled little bottle of booze was purchased by the aforementioned gift shop aficionado at New Liberty Distillery (in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia) during a recent visit for the grand opening of their beautiful new tasting room and lounge.

Here are a few words about this whiskey taken directly from the New Liberty website:

This limited edition Bloody Butcher Bourbon continues to embrace New Liberty Distillery’s admiration for the unique terroir available to this region. Traditionally, barrels are created with American Oak sourced from all over the United States, but dominantly in Kentucky, Missouri, or Virginia. The Bloody Butcher Bourbon was aged entirely in Pennsylvanian American White Oak casks from Tonnellerie Nadalie in Kittinning, PA.

Tonnellerie Nadalie sources its wood from the Western Pennsylvania forests, where American White Oak trees flourish. The soil composition in Pennsylvania varies with sandstone, shale, and limestone. This unique terroir imparts minerality, spice, moderate smokiness, and subtle notes of coconut and clove into the wood. You will also find tannins similar to those found in French Oak casks. Charred with a medium toast, the Pennsylvanian White Oak releases a very intense aromatic complexity and fruit-forward palette.

We already reviewed the Sour Mash version of their Bloody Butcher Bourbon and really enjoyed it, so yet again, we went into this tasting with our rose-colored glasses on (not a particularly good look for men of a certain age such as ourselves). To find out if this Bloody Butcher Bourbon was as good as the last one, click play on the following video:

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