Type: | ROCK and RYE |
Flavor: | Rock Candy & Rye |
Made From: | Rock Candy & Rye |
Produced By: | BRITISH AMERICAN DISTILLERS, INC. |
Origin: | Hudson, N.Y. U.S.A. |
Proof: | 70 |
Age: | 0 |
Importer: | Made In The U.S.A. |
Location: | Hudson, N.Y. |
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Rock & Rye was something almost any bar carried, and most made their own, often as a way to make some rather rustic whiskey more approachable. The classic recipe is rye sweetened with rock candy, sometimes also ginger and/or citrus peels, essentially an Old Fashioned cocktail-in-a-bottle. Theoretically, all it needs is a couple of dashes of bitters and a twist to complete it. Since rye had a hard time coming back after Prohibition, if a bar carried it at all after that, it was likely a manufactured bottled bastardization of the stuff (for nostalgic purposes?), neither ‘rye’ nor ‘rock.’ It was something that was as much to rye whiskey as Tang is to orange juice.