American Metal Whiskey The Disciple Review

The feedback part is about to get hotter than a lean-burning header, so prepared your popcorn and pipe wrap. Sure, you’re studying a tasting assessment on Bike EXIF, however earlier than you shout ‘fallacious weblog,’ or ‘keep in your lane,’ hear us out. We’ve prolonged our attain, particularly with the addition of Iron & Air’s again catalog of fabric, and in addition including in a few of our personal outdoors influences as properly. For those who’re something like us, customized bikes, traditional autos and tastes from all over the world go hand-in-hand; the type of matters that give substance to conversations between gearheads.

Talking of issues that go hand-in-hand, it’s the opinion of the EXIF editorial workers that there are few finer issues in life than spirit after you grasp the keys up for the day. Whether or not it’s blue-collar gentle beer within the storage, or a neat glass and an RSS feed, some pairings are pure.

Whiskeys and bourbons are a recurring matter of our facet chatter after hours, as we talk about the most recent we’ve sampled, and we’ve an occasional digital pleased hour as properly. We name it Whiskey Wednesday, and since we’re already doing the work, we figured why not share our findings with you?

Our first topic comes courtesy of a bunch of craftsmen from American Metal Customs in Danbury, Connecticut. Their award-winning customized store cranks out rad bikes and scorching rods, they usually’ve expanded their model to incorporate a line of conventional American whiskeys as properly—we respect the transfer.

The Disciple—American Metal Whiskey

Tennessee Straight Whiskey
Distilled in Tennessee, bottled in Vermont
90 Proof, 45% alcohol by quantity

A limited-edition single-barrel, adorned with pinstriping, brass and Knuckleheads, The Disciple could be very clearly aimed on the old-school American iron fanatic. Its theme and namesake come from a current Harley customized from American Metallic’s Josh Allison, nevertheless it’s greater than focused advertising, as American Metallic devised a option to embrace The Disciple Knucklehead of their ‘sonic-infusion’ course of—let’s dive in.

The Disciple gained’t go away gearheads wanting for presentation, because the impressed paintings was carried out in collaboration with Los Angeles-based Sonny Boy, identified for his pinstriping, lettering and signal portray. Twice the burden of a up to date platic gasoline cap, the brass bottle stopper pops with a stunning heft, and it was modeled off the brass grips on Allison’s Knucklehead. The stopper alone is such a novel piece, it’s prone to discover its method into your toolbox as a substitute of the recycling bin—I’m pondering Harley oil bag cap, however I haven’t measured it but.

With our uncultured palettes cleansed, we pour The Disciple neat and huff the intoxicating scents. You get hit of caramel, citrus and spice, that’s the orange and cloves speaking, and the 89-proof amber liquid is greater than inviting.

The primary impression is that that is definitely a simple drinker, and it ought to be contemplating the excessive corn content material within the mash invoice and the conservative alcohol content material. First met with caramel and butterscotch, and ending with citrus and pepper on the sting of your tongue, there’s virtually no burn to talk of. It goes down straightforward, however there’s enough complexity to deliver you again for extra. For those who’re an informal whiskey drinker, or in search of a novel reward, The Disciple won’t disappoint.

You’ll get two or three neat glasses out of the Disciple earlier than you’re prepared to modify it up. After that, the sturdy sweets and spice might get exaggerated, nevertheless it evens out properly with some ice—don’t ring our necks too unhealthy for not having metal ‘chilling cubes’ readily available. And whereas it’s a bit low on octane, I believe you’d have whiskey smash in your fingers for subsequent sipping.

Earlier than we get misplaced within the sauce, we have to revisit this entire sonic infusion deal. Since you may’t pipe straight Knucklehead exhaust into the oak barrel, they’ve devised a method to make use of recorded sounds from the Disciple’s exhaust within the four-year barrel ageing course of. We’d assume the audio should agitate the whiskey so the oak’s vanilla and caramel flavors switch faster. I’m no Sommelier, however the flavors are definitely there, so it’s greater than a gimmick and a elaborate label in our books.

I suppose there’s no more true measure of whiskey than how far the bottle goes, and solely about half remained on the finish of our session. Itemizing for $79.99, the Disciple is simple to love, and American Metallic went above and past to ship us their normal single-barrel, glassware and a wooden field as properly. When you gained’t discover these extras on the shelf at your native retailer, we’d be mendacity if we mentioned they didn’t improve the expertise, and considered one of our tasters remarked that the wood field was worthy of committing a small pet to the earth in.