Wheel Horse Straight Rye!

• VERY OPEN about their source
  • Owned by O.Z Tyler and Latitude beverage
  • Produced by O.Z. Tyler
    • O.Z Tyler changed its name to Green river Distillery in 2020
  • Nowhere on their site do they claim to be anything other than a green river product.  
  • This was the first rye out of Green River
  • Green river was purchased by bardstown distilling in 2022
• History of green river
  •  founded in 1885 by John W. McCulloch
  • It was the first in owensboro
    • And the 10th distillery in Kentucky
  • Like so many of these brands it passed through many hands and fell and rised in prominence throughout.
• Jacob Call is the master distiller, a 7th generation distiller.
• When they brought back the green river brand they talked with Rob McCulloch, great grandson of John, to make sure they got the story straight 
  • Its worth mentioning that “the story” is he sold whiskey and was a great marketer, thats it.  There are little to no details on the original green river distillery other than a few awards it won and its slogan “Whiskey without regrets”
• Latitude beverage
  • Got its start in Wine.  Shifting the cost structure to provide high quality wines by skipping out on buying vineyards… so sourcing wine.
    • It might be more complicated than that so don't rip them to hard for it
  • They own a few other spirits brands
    • North Cross Irish Whiskey, Copper and Cask, Zarpado Tequila
• The juice
  • This sour mash Rye whiskey is made from 95% rye and 5% malted barley. It's distilled in copper stills then matured in 53-gallon, charred American oak barrels for between three and four years. Like all of our small batch whiskeys, Wheel Horse Rye is bottled at 101 proof and is non-chill filtered.
• Sources
  • https://www.latitudebeverage.com/ 
  • https://kybourbontrail.com/a-legacy-revived-green-river-distilling-co-releases-green-river-bourbon/#:~:text=in%20September%202020.-,Green%20River%20Distilling%20Co.,of%20the%20finest%20in%20Kentucky. 
  • https://greenriverwhiskey.com/ 
  • https://wheelhorsewhiskey.com/