Another distillery in New York I need to visit one day is Van Brunt Stillhouse.

Van Brunt Stillhouse have been going since 2012 in Red Hook, Brooklyn and founded by Daric Schlesselman and Sarah Ludington. As husban and wife they are driven by their shared love for creating and crafts.
They are producing craft Farmhouse style whiskeys by using local grains from New York State. They use Organically grown Corn, Wheat and Rye and my guess is that the Barley also is from New York State as they for example smoke the grains them selfs
Daric and Sarah have been digging some in the history books and want to be true to the Dutch settlers. So the distillery has it’s name from one of the pioneers Cornelius Van Brunt (1760-1827). One of the founders of the Dutch colony of Breukelen. Breukelen later became Brooklyn.

The first spirit Van Brunt Stillhouse released was Due North Rum. The Rum and the saying Due North about a rum has a long history in New York and because of the large interest in history the Rum was chosen.

This Campfire whiskey tastes pretty good but I must say I don’t get that Campfire smokey feel. It is more a experience of a mix between a well made Bourbon and a triple distilled Irish Whiskey with a twist of a very soft smoke.

On the bottle it says: ” “Campfire” says it all. Peat, oak and cherry are front and center in this bold spirit. 3 whiskies distilled from house-smoked grains came together to form the complex flavors in this unique batch – never to be repeated, so grab a bottle while you can. Carefully crafted, one batch at a time, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Age 3 years. We never chill filter our whiskey.”

I am glad I grabbed a bottle when I saw it and I enjoy every sip. I can’t find the cherry and the smoke is not dominating. I can’t get this stuff in Denmark, but it could have been fun to put it up against the Smoked Corn Whiskey they produce at Van Brunt Stillhouse.

๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ†‚
๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ: Van Brunt Stillhouse
๐™‰๐™–๐™ข๐™š: Campfire
๐™Ž๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™จ: Distiller’s Edition
๐™๐™ฎ๐™ฅ๐™š: Straight Whiskey
๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ฎ: USA – Brooklyn, New York
๐˜ผ๐™œ๐™š: 3 Years old
๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™˜ %: 46
๐˜พ๐™–๐™จ๐™ ๐™จ: New American Oak
๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™: Lot #1
๐˜พ๐™๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก-๐™›๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™š๐™™: No
๐™‰๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ง๐™–๐™ก ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง: Yes
๐™‡๐™ž๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™: Small Batch – They say it will never come again (They have made a Smoked Corn Whiskey tho ๐Ÿ˜‰ )
๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™š๐™™: 2018

๐Ÿ…ผ๐Ÿ†ˆ ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ†‚๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ถ ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…พ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ด๐Ÿ†‚

๐Ÿ‘ƒ: Sweet, Candied fruit, mint, vanilla, wood, leather, pecan

๐Ÿ‘„: Semi oily, sweet corn notes, stone fruit, caramel, buttery, bourbon’ish, a little salt,

๐Ÿ˜‹: Medium long, some sweet pepperyness lingers along side wood notes and something fruity. Somewhere there is very soft tones of mild smoke.

๐™„ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฎ: ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ (4/6)

๐Ÿ…ผ๐Ÿ†ˆ ๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ถ ๐Ÿ†‚๐Ÿ†ˆ๐Ÿ†‚๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ด๐Ÿ…ผ

๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐™€๐™ญ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ค๐™ง๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฎ – ๐™™๐™š๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™– ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง
๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐˜ผ ๐™—๐™š๐™–๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™›๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฎ – ๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™›
๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐™‚๐™ค๐™ค๐™™ – ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™™๐™ง๐™–๐™ข
๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™–๐™™ – ๐™„’๐™ก๐™ก ๐™™๐™ค ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™œ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ
๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™จ ๐™›๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™„ ๐™ข๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™ค ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™œ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ
๐Ÿฅƒ – ๐™‡๐™š๐™ฉ’๐™จ ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™„ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฉ

By Whisky Adventurer

Behind the name Whisky Adventurer is Lars Modvig Hesselberg. In short, I enjoy immersing myself in all aspects of the whisky world. I enjoy the stories, the people, the scents, the development, the taste, the variety, the big ones, the small ones, the distilleries and much more. Telling and passing on knowledge and experiences through speech, writing and pictures is a big part of the whole experience for me.