WESTERN SLOPE WHISKEY CLUB
Sensory Tasting with Green River Distillery - New Castle
Thu, Oct 03
|Lakota Links
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lakota Links, 1000 Clubhouse Dr, New Castle, CO 81647, USA
Guests
About the event
We aer thrilled to be holding our inagural Western Slope Whiskey Club educational tasting events to the Roaring Fork Valley.
For our first event, we are excited to have Green River Distillery, from Owensboro, KY join us on Thursday, October 3rd at 6:30pm. Taking us on a Sensory Journey of their amazing whiskeys is National Brand Ambassador Caryn Wells and Mountain States GM, Sam Whedon.
Green River Distillery (DSP-KY-10) began distilling whiskey in 1885 becoming the 10th oldest distillery in Kentucky. Becoming one of the most popular whiskeys in the US, it was so popular that 20 barrels were once traded for interest in a Colorado gold mine that panned out, earning Green River the title “most expensive spirit or whiskey ever sold”. The distillery eventually stopped distribution and closed in 1955. Reconstruction of Green River started up in 2014, with distillation beginning again in 2016. 139 years after…