Sips & Sites & Bites

A collaboration 200 years in the making, Chicken Cock Whiskey and the New Orleans Bourbon Festival recently teamed up on a one-of-a-kind Single Barrel Double Oak Kentucky Whiskey.

The spirit is designed to embody the culture of this bourbon festival, slated for March 20-24 in New Orleans. According to the makers of Chicken Cock, this limited edition product will retail for $149.99 and be exclusively available at the New Orleans Bourbon Festival and select retailers in the area.

Will Woodington, Chicken Cock’s whiskey brand ambassador, said that not only is New Orleans one of the cornerstones for America’s rich cocktail and whiskey history, “but we can also trace our brand’s history to New Orleans as far back as the late 1830s, a time when James A. Miller was shipping barrels of his coveted whiskey down to the ‘Big Easy’ long before he opened the Chicken Cock Distillery in 1856.”

Woodington, along with Chicken Cock Whiskey’s Master Distiller Gregg Snyder and event organizers, hand-picked this barrel of Double Oak 9-Year Kentucky Whiskey in-person in Bardstown. “And it’s one of the finest expressions of Chicken Cock Whiskey that I’ve ever tasted,” he added.

The whiskey is aged nine years, the first seven in used barrels and the final two in new American white oak with a level four char. The resulting whiskey clocks in at 119.6 proof, and comes bottled in a collaboratively designed, limited edition prohibition-era style bottle. 

For more information, check out https://chickencockwhiskey.com.