64. Cadée Distillery - Deceptivus Bourbon Maritime Whiskey

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Welcome back for another installment of Craft Distillery Monday here on the Bourbon Road. This week, Mike and I turn our sights west, actually northwest, on a small distillery located in Washington State on Whitby Island called Caddie. We would like to thank our friends at Premium Bar Products for sponsoring this episode. If you're ready to step up your game at your home bar, check out premiumbarproducts.com to choose from their wide selection of glassware, all of which can be custom engraved with your personal message or logo. And there's no minimum order. So after the episode, head over to premiumbarproducts.com and check out everything they have to offer. Now let's get on with the show. Hello, everybody. I'm Jim Shannon. I'm Mike Hyatt. And this is the Bourbon Road. And today, Mike, where are we? We're out in your basement. It's nice and cool down here.

Yeah, Studio One. Bourbon Road Studio One. Yeah, man, I spent the whole day outside and I hurt myself. I fell off my trailer and between the tongue and hurt my ribs, hurt my leg. Sucks to get old, doesn't it? It does suck to get old. I made it through it. I made it through the day. So I'm over here. I brought some, I brought a little bit of liquid medicines.

Yeah. So we're going to check out a new whiskey today. Craft distillery whiskey. Now we've had these guys, we've had their whiskey before.

We have.

But I'm not, did we talk about it?

We did. And you know, COVID came up and we just didn't have a chance to put it on air. So we thought we'd visit a little bit with it and we went ahead, drank it. I think that bottle, I don't know, it's about half gone now. So this is an exceptional maritime whiskey. And that's kind of special for me and you both being old sailors, right?

When I hear maritime whiskey, I mean, I'm thinking, I'm ready. I'm ready to try this, right? Salty. Especially like, think back to Jefferson Ocean. When you first heard about Jefferson Ocean, didn't that get your interest? It definitely sold me on it.

And I thought, I have to go out and get this whiskey today. So this was special for us and stuff. The guy's actually from Scotland, so it might have a little bit of Scotch taste in there. Some of those distilleries there are on Isles, and this one's actually on Island. It is. What's that island? Whidbey Island, Washington State.

I can't get my Texan to grasp that name. Whidbey. W-H-I-D-B-E-Y. Whidbey Island in the great Northwest of the United States. Colin Campbell started a whiskey company up there. Caddy. Caddy is the name of the distillery. And Caddy is a small distillery. Now they're sourcing from what I can tell from the website. They did send us some samples.

Yeah, we drank one of the Medusa. We drank that whole sample and we never reviewed it. So Colin, if you're listening to this, we probably need a couple more samples. That whole bottle, whole cask, just send it on over. Me and Jim really loved it that much.

Yeah, so he's got a whiskey that's in a beautiful bottle and it's called Medusa. And I guess it's one of his special releases, one of his special expressions. Maybe a little bit harder to come by. But we did get a sample of that. Mike and I shared it. We enjoyed it and it was delicious. But we failed to, other than mention it on air, we really didn't go into any detail on it, right?

I don't think we did. It just didn't make it to the cut and we really need to go back and revisit it. Hopefully we'll get some more of it.

It's hard to get here in Kentucky. But today we are drinking another expression from Gidey. Deceptivist. This is Deceptivist. Now I don't know that they really go into why they call it Deceptivist. Sounds like it's deceptive, right? But it's not. We're going to taste it today, and we're not going to spend a whole bunch more time talking about it. We're going to get right into it, I think.

Yeah, it's 51% corn. We do know that. We don't know the rest of the mash bill. We both nosed it. It's 85 proof. Yeah, it's lower than what you would think of a traditional Scottish whiskey, right? And we both thought.

But this is a bourbon.

It is a bourbon. A finished bourbon at that. And it's finished in ruby port wine barrels.

Very much like the Angel's Envy ruby port wine finished bourbon that they have. This is an 85 proofer. And Mike, let's get into it and tell everybody about it. What do you think? All right, let's do it. Now on the nose, it's got a little bit of ethanol.

It's very sweet. You were saying menthol earlier, and I think what I think of a breath mint, I guess, is what I'm getting out of that, that alcohol is coming through.

Yeah, when I say menthol, I just get that, you know, that fresh, crisp, sea air kind of, but it's definitely sweet. It's got a very light fruit nose on it though. Let's taste it.

You know me, I'm already there.

Very, very sweet on the front of the palate. So nothing younger than four years in this. Right, this is a four year and it spends another year to a year and a half in Ruby Port barrels. And I'm getting that fruity note from the Ruby Port. It's a little bit lighter. I don't want to call it watery, but we're kind of accustomed to drinking bourbons in the full spectrum, everywhere from 80 proof up to 140 proof. So we've had some stuff that we would call thick, and we've had some stuff we'd call thin, right?

Yeah, this is definitely on the thin, and I don't know if it's because they cut it down so much. I would have liked to have seen it when it's not cut down. Now if you haven't checked this guy out on his YouTube videos and his commercials and stuff, he is absolutely hilarious. You gotta go check him out. Just look him up on YouTube and you'll see him jumping up out of the pond with his Scottish accent.

Got his face painted like Emile Gibson in Braveheart. Oh yeah.

Yeah, you can't. That's great entertainment right there. The guy is truly from Scotland and he embraces that. He's up in the Pacific Northwest now and he's making this maritime whiskey. This would be a nice summer sipper right here.

It's a little lighter. It's a little bit lower proof than I normally drink. I like to stay closer to 100. I wish I knew more about the mash bill. Maybe Colin will reach out to us and let us know. Right when he's gonna tell us he's got another bottle of the Medusa heading our way, right?

Hopefully. So he's got a celebrity that drinks his juice all the time. Greg Grunberg. You know who he is? Greg Grunberg, yeah. Seen him in a few movies. Yeah, I guess he'd be that second tier actor. He's not the main character ever, but he's always the supporting cast. He's been in all kinds of stuff. I mean, his list is long. A nice distillery, he's got five different, different whiskeys there at his distillery. He's got three gins which would be expected from a craft distillery in America today. You're either doing rum or vodka or some gin probably. He makes a rye too. He does make a rye whiskey. Yeah. That'd be right up your alley. It would be.

You know, Mike, this is something that I would recommend to a friend. It's not gonna knock your socks off, okay? This is just a good solid expression from a young company who's sourcing their liquid and doing some special aging process and blending to it. I think he's come up with something here that is enjoyable. It's refreshing. That menthol kind of carries over to the pallet a little bit. You do get that fruity notes from the ruby port. I think the combination of all of that makes a nice, I would call this a summer sipper.

That's what I was saying. I think it is a summer sipper. It's not too hot to where you're going to be sitting out on a hot day and stuff and you came in the house and sipped on this. This wouldn't be bad to sip on.

And you're talking about that.

It's almost got like that spearmint bubble gum to it a little bit. I was trying to think, what was the double like the double mint? Double mint. Remember the twins? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, the double mint twins. It's kind of got that taste to it. Really light. I was trying to think. I don't get any like butterscotch or anything like that.

No, there's no there's no baking spices. There's no, you know, sorghum molasses, no heavy sugary notes to this. This is light. It's probably got I'm going to say this and he's going to come back and correct us later. But I want to say this has got a decent amount of malted barley in it, but I could be wrong. But I think it's got a little bit in there. Because I'm getting kind of a little bit of a peach, kind of a peach note to it.

So if you're sourcing your whiskey in the Pacific Northwest, where do you get that from?

Well, I mean, you get it from anywhere in the US, right? I mean, he's getting you. He's buying US stocks. Sure. Yeah, they may be shipping out from Kentucky for all we know. That's a long ways to haul some whiskey. That's right. Could be getting it from Woodinville. You know, Woodinville is a Up-and-comer, right? It could be.

I'd be curious of where they're getting it from. And I'm always curious on. I mean, you were talking about this earlier. that there's a Kentucky owned distillery that's owned by a larger company that ships some distilled spirits out to Virginia. Sure. And I just don't understand how that's cost effective when you can just make it there in Virginia. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah. Well, I mean, they've got, uh, they've got some pretty bright minds working for that company. So they do.

I'm sure they've crushed the numbers. You know, you can definitely have to crush the numbers and I'm sure they have. And this right here though, like you said, summertime journey, summertime whiskey, if you're looking for us, a summertime drink, or if you're looking for somebody to to try to get somebody new into the bourbon game. And I think this is a good, um, entry level bourbon whiskey for somebody that's that says, Hey, I'd like to try it neat. I agree. There's no burn to it. There's not that Kentucky hug. Um, for me and you, this is even for me, this is super low.

Well, I'll say this, Kadhi Distillery is doing things right. I think they've got, at least from what we've taste, we've tasted their Deceptivist now, which we just reviewed, and we've had their Medusa, and both of those have been, hey, thumbs up from me. So Colin, you're doing it right. I think, you know, we'd like to try maybe your rye whiskey. I think we'd like to see what else you have going on and keep doing what you're doing, my friend. I think that your spirits are well respected, at least by Mike and I. Yeah, I think anybody who's out there wants to drink it.

If we got any listeners or any of our bourbon roadies that are in our Facebook group and they live out on the West Coast, stop in and see this guy and buy a bottle of his whiskey. Definitely check out his YouTube video. Most definitely.

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