Proximo Spirits UK is this week launching TINCUP, an 84% proof American whiskey, which is a tribute to the gold rush miners who drank their whiskey out of tin cups.
TINCUP remembers old gold rush miners
Proximo Spirits UK is this week launching TINCUP, an 84% proof American whiskey, which is a tribute to the gold rush miners who drank their whiskey out of tin cups.
The whiskey could technically also be called a bourbon and is higher in rye and lower in malt than other whiskey brands, helping to give it a more powerful flavor.
It has been created and produced by US distiller, Jess Graber, who mashes and ferments corn, rye and malt for 80 hours. It is then distilled twice and cut to 125 proof before being aged in charred white oak barrels and stored in high brick rick houses. The whiskey is then bottled at 84% proof.
The whiskey is said to have a "a dark caramel hue and an aroma with notes of citrus, black pepper and ginger snap" with a strong flavour of "rye spice, cinnamon and caramel".
The bottle's design has been implemented by Stranger & Stranger, overall winning design agency in the Harpers Global Design Awards.
Tincup is also the name of an old Colorado mining town and the bottle's design includes heavily embossed sides which are said to be "inspired by the ruggedness of the Rockies and the hexagonal bottle shape designed to stop it rolling down mountain sides".
Proximo hopes the whiskey will become popular with bartenders and mixologists for both classic and modern cocktails, be it an Old Fashioned, Manhattan Mint Julep, Boston Sour or Colorado Mule.
It can also be served as a "Boilermaker" alongside a craft beer.
It goes on sale this week and will initially be available through specialist players such as Gerry's, Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason, Drinks Supermarket and Specialty Drinks at an RRP of £30. It will then go in to the wider grocery market in in 2015. It is also available in selected bars including Dukes Brew & Que, Happiness Forgets, Blind Pig, Bodean's, Berners Tavern at The London Edition, Cane & Grain (Manchester), Lucky Liquor (Edinburgh).