RETURN OF ROSEN RYE

In 2016, I was asked to join this project, advising on the mashing and distilling, shared S&W’s 85-year-old master distiller, Dick Stoll. The last master distiller at Pennsylvania’s Michter’s distillery began as a ditchdigger, eventually trained by Charles Everett Beam to distill its bourbon and that of the A.H. Hirsch’s brand, among others, until it shuttered in 1990. During his tenure he witnessed the falloff of interest and use of Rosen, using it exclusively until it lacked sufficient supplies….I was able to taste what will soon be the first Rosen rye sold in half a century and, with a mash bill of 65% Rosen rye, intensely flavorsome it was! -David Furer, Distiller Magazine.

Originally Published in Distiller