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Unprompted: Sitting down to talk Bourbon

Posted August 4, 2017

New Riff Distillery is about a year away from producing its first bottle of bourbon. The distillery has been in operation for more than three years, but it has yet to sell any bourbon because the product must first age.

Hannah Lowen, Ken Lewis and David Miller explain how bourbon is growing in popularity all over the world, what they are doing that no other distiller will try, and the luck they stumbled upon that makes their process different from another place.

They also explain what it means when the whiskey talks to them.

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Our Chat with Bourbon and Barns

Posted February 27, 2017

New Riff Distilling Excels with Patience

February 24, 2017

New Riff Distilling opened in 2014 in Newport, KY, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, OH. New Riff sells a variety of products today, including Kentucky Wild Gin, New Make un-aged whiskey and an older bourbon called OKI Reserve. In 2018, New Riff’s bourbon and rye whiskey will be ready for the market as well. Bourbon and Barns recently caught up with New Riff’s VP of Operations and General Manager Hannah Lowen to talk about what’s going on at the distillery in Northern Kentucky.

Bourbon and Barns: How did New Riff Distilling get its start?

Hannah Lowen: New Riff opened in May of 2014, but the idea to open an independent Bourbon distillery was hatched a handful of years before that. Coming out of the Kentucky retail liquor industry, our owner and president Ken Lewis saw Newport, Ky. as the best place in the country to make quality craft Bourbon, firmly based in Kentucky, but with a new riff on an old tradition. This new riff on Bourbon would be Modern, Urban, and Quality Driven. Making a huge change in his career and following his entrepreneurial roots, he set forth on putting together a team of so-called corporate refugees all working toward a pretty lofty goal: to one day be considered one of the great small distilleries of the world.

BB: How big is the distillery?

HL: At New Riff we often describe ourselves as very big for a little guy, and very little for a big guy. We currently produce about 7,500 barrels a year, which compared to many of our colleagues n the craft distilling universe is a ton. However, compared to our Kentucky Bourbon Brethren, it’s a drop in the bucket. We are patiently waiting until our Bourbon and Rye turn four years old, as we believe those extra years are worth the wait. Our bottled portfolio now is limited to our Kentucky Wild Gin, New Make un-aged whiskey, and a merchant bottling of older Bourbon, O.K.I Reserve. All of these pale in comparison to the cases we’ll have out in the world come the end of 2018. As far as staff goes, the distillery is also home to the bustling New Riff Event Center, and we have close to 25 full time employees, with many other part time folks.

 

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Cheers!: Summer Frosé

Posted August 14, 2016

A delicious summer slush from our very own Amy Tobin.

Three ingredients, three steps, frozen drinks are hot this summer!

  • 3/4 cup Rosé
  • 4 cups ice
  • 1/4 cup strawberry simple syrup
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Cheers!: Push It

Posted July 19, 2016

Bourbon and house made Cherry Black Pepper Shrub PUSH this cocktail to the next level.

  • 4 oz O.K.I.
  • 3 oz Cherry Black Pepper Shrub
  • Boozey Cherries
  • Ice
  • 2 rocks glasses and a spoon
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Cheers!: Stayin’ Alive Cocktail

Posted July 14, 2016

Presenting our simple and delicious cocktail- The Stayin’ Alive!

O.K.I. Bourbon, ginger ale and lime. Grab a bottle from our gift shop and make one today!

  • 1 1/2 oz bourbon
  • 1/2 oz maple syrup
  • 1 lime
  • 1 can ginger ale
  • glass and stirring spoon
  • ice

 

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