![]() In its first year it attracted nearly 20,000 visitors and became one of the Southside’s most popular tourist destinations featured in Southern Living’s “50 Best Places in the South”. The micro-distillery offers tours, tastings, and retail seven days a week. across from the Chattanooga Choo Choo, will continue to serve as the brand’s research and development distillery and tourist destination. The company’s 5,000-square-foot Tennessee Stillhouse micro-distillery, located at 1439 Market St. Thomas Palmer/Cogent Studio is the architect and EMJ is the contractor. The building is owned by Lamp Post Properties. “This additional location will provide us with the capacity to expand beyond our current three markets, building Chattanooga Whiskey into a more nationally recognized premium bourbon producer from Tennessee.” ![]() “Chattanooga Whiskey is excited about the opportunity to continue building local, high quality manufacturing in Chattanooga’s downtown,” said company founder and CEO Tim Piersant. Plans also include over 10,000 square feet of production space, over 2,000 square feet of office space where Chattanooga Whiskey will be headquartered, and over 4,000 square feet of future event space. The current structure is approximately 46,000 square feet and has room to house over 4,000 (53-gallon) aging barrels of bourbon whiskey at one time. We can’t wait to fire up the new system in 2017.” "These recipes will utilize both traditional and nontraditional techniques and ingredients, always in the pursuit of making the best whiskey possible. Of the dozens of recipes developed on our 100-gallon system, some of these bourbons and whiskies will graduate to our 2,700 gallon system on Riverfront Parkway and will go forward, proudly representing the Chattanooga Whiskey name. “For over a year now, we've been developing our very own style of Chattanooga Whiskey at our micro-distillery on Market Street, one barrel at a time. “The beginning of our distillery construction marks yet another milestone in our company’s history,” said Grant McCracken, head distiller for Chattanooga Whiskey. Officials said, "Since then, demand for their award-winning 1816 bourbon has grown and greatly exceeded the company’s production capacity." In March of 2015, the company opened a micro-distillery experience called the Tennessee Stillhouse, which was the first legal distillery in Chattanooga in 100 years. We were impressed with the 91 and 111, the 1816 was good but we’d agree that the 91 Single Barrel store pick was just plain awesome giving it the highest score to date.In 2013, the company became known for changing statewide laws to make distilling legal again in Hamilton County with its successful “Vote Whiskey” campaign. Erik hits it right on the head, “Chattanooga just does it right”. ![]() For a 118 proof, it goes down smooth with an abundance of flavor as Chris says that’s what Chattanooga is after with their caramel malts and seven day fermentation process. Chris gives us a break down on the selection process complete with a tasting chart and grain examples. Single Barrel Select Melrose Rye Whiskey Golden Age Rye Read House Whiskies Recipes Distributors Events Our Team. Coming in at 118 proof! We also get a chance to check out the Chattanooga Whiskey single barrel selection kit. ![]() The second bottle is Chattanooga’s first ever barrel 91 Tennessee High Malt Single Barrel Store Pick(their own distillate). This has a flavor all it’s own and you can taste high percentage of rye on the finish. The 1816 Single Barrel aged 11 years at 111.2 proof was a limited release of their MGP offering that was picked up at the experimental distillery tour last year. 2021: 177: Chattanooga Whiskey 2017 Experimental - Single. 2020: 76: Chattanooga Whiskey 2017 Experimental - Single Barrel: 04: 61.15 Vol. Chattanooga Whiskey 2016 Experimental - Single Barrel: 04: 60.85 Vol. We get together with Florida Rep Chris Helmly for another round only this time it is with two special bottles of Chattanooga Whiskey. Chattanooga Whiskey 2008 - Cask 1816 Series: 56.8 Vol.
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