Our friends from 14th Star Brewing Company are joining us in The Tasting Room to celebrate the release of our recent collaboration! The two of us have come together to create Hopscotch: A Vermont Single Malt Whiskey using their Tribute Double IPA.
They will be sampling some of their brews Friday night (including Tribute Double IPA) in the Tasting Room and handing out some free swag!
All weekend long you can grab free tastings of Hopscotch as well as half priced cocktails!
The release of our 3rd rendition of Hopscotch is here! We are proud to present our latest batch in collaboration with 14th Star Brewing Company!
In celebration we will be doing FREE tastings of Hopscotch all weekend long, and all Hopscotch cocktails will be half priced! Come join us in the Tasting Room and celebrate Vermont's Single Malt Whiskey!
AND on Friday 14th Star Brewing Company will be here pouring some brews starting at 5pm!
*A portion of the sales from each bottle is donated to the Josh Pallotta Fund, a Vermont non-profit organization dedicated to helping Veterans and Service Members*
The release of our 3rd rendition of Hopscotch is here! We are proud to present our latest batch in collaboration with 14th Star Brewing Company!
In celebration we will be doing FREE tastings of Hopscotch all weekend long, and all Hopscotch cocktails will be half priced! Come join us in the Tasting Room and celebrate Vermont's Single Malt Whiskey!
AND on Friday 14th Star Brewing Company will be here pouring some brews starting at 5pm!
*A portion of the sales from each bottle is donated to the Josh Pallotta Fund, a Vermont non-profit organization dedicated to helping Veterans and Service Members*
The release of our 3rd rendition of Hopscotch is here! We are proud to present our latest batch in collaboration with 14th Star Brewing Company!
In celebration we will be doing FREE tastings of Hopscotch all weekend long, and all Hopscotch cocktails will be half priced! Come join us in the Tasting Room and celebrate Vermont's Single Malt Whiskey!
AND on Friday 14th Star Brewing Company will be here pouring some brews starting at 5pm!
*A portion of the sales from each bottle is donated to the Josh Pallotta Fund, a Vermont non-profit organization dedicated to helping Veterans and Service Members*
Sure, this drink may look pretty, but we promise it tastes just as good as it looks.
Prepare for a sugar high with this delicious Sugar Shack cocktail featuring our Maple Cask Rum.
The flavors in this cocktail do not quit, starting with our PX Rum. And what zombie wouldn't love this garnish?
This fall cocktail features a combination of our Mad Apple Brandy and Maple Cask Rum, along with the flavors of allspice, cinnamon and vanilla syrups, and beet juice! Pssst... don't forget the worm!
This super fun drink combines the flavors of banana with walnut, pineapple juice, First Run Rum and more. And, don't skip on the incredible garnish!
Eight Seas Pop-Up Tiki Bar Proprietor Catherine Hood featured Mad River Distillers cocktails in her Dean Hotel Pop-Up Wednesday, October 17. Catherine is based in Providence, Rhode Island. See our cocktails section for the recipes!
Catherine founded Eight Seas in 2017 as a pop-up cocktail experience inspired by historic and contemporary tiki cocktails and culture. Since then, Eight Seas has expanded beyond culinary arts and history, and now collaborates with visual artists, distillers, farmers, chefs, and other makers to create sensory events that celebrate much more than tropical tipples.
Check out the upcoming Fall events, including two big festivals in Vermont in Manchester and Stowe!
Facebook Event
s here!
Congratulations Taylor Smith from Lion's Tail for winning the final round of the Boston Bartender Bout! Her winning drink was made with Revolution Rye. Thanks to Wink & Nod for hosting!
Visit the Trophy Room in Boston for Patrick's incredible cocktail “Don’t Chai Me” featuring Chai Tea infused Vanilla Rum, Foro amaro, espresso, Thai coconut milk & 'Elemakule Tiki’ bitters.
Trophy Room 26 Chandler St, Boston, MA 02116
Congratulations Chelsea Harris!
Chelsea beat out 12 bartenders over three rounds of competition. The finals were held at the Copper Grouse in Manchester, VT on April 10th. The winning cocktail featured Revolution Rye.
The "market basket" for the final round consisted of Revolution Rye, Fernet Branca, a coconut, and a choice of four ice cream flavors.
The winning recipe:
1 oz Revolution Rye
1 oz Cocchi di Torino
.5 oz Coconut Milk
2 barspoons Fernet
Stir ingredients over ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and top with maple blackberry whipped cream.
Maple Blackberry Whipped Cream
3 oz Lulu maple ice cream
3 oz Heavy Cream
6 muddled blackberries
Shake in a cocktail shaker until thick.
Find Chelsea at Pizzeria Verita in Burlington, VT.
WARREN, Vermont (April 4, 2018) – Sometimes the need to change is inevitable. Other times it is forced by nature. But in this case, Mad River Distillers is choosing to rename its award-winning Malvados apple brandy to both avoid a wicked legal dust up and use the opportunity to enlist the public's help. The Warren, Vermont distillery was served with a cease-and-desist notice by the French spirits marketing board, who were unimpressed with the small company's translation skills.
"Malvados means 'wicked' in both Spanish and Portuguese,” quipped Mad River founder John Egan. “But we are lovers of brandy, not fighters. To be honest, we never thought we'd become big enough to show up on their radar.”
Malvados is a traditional-style, dry apple brandy made entirely with native Vermont apples and handcrafted in Mad River Distillers converted horse barn. The company was pleased to receive the ultimate acclaim for the 100 proof brandy in 2016, when it was awarded a Good Food Award for Best Distilled Spirit. The recognition certainly brought the upstart distillery international acclaim, but with the increased profile came the registered piece of mail: change the name or face the legal consequences in court.
“We thought it would be fun to enlist the public's help with a new name,” said Mimi Buttenheim, President of Mad River Distillers. “So we came up with a nice prize package.”
The winning entry, judged by the Mad River Distillers team, will earn an overnight stay at Hotel Vermont in Burlington, a $200 dinner certificate, and a cocktail flight in the distillery's eponymous Burlington tasting room.
Entries may be submitted via Facebook, Instagram (@MadRiverDistillers) or via Twitter (@DrinkMRD) and should include the proposed name, as well as the hashtags #true802 and #RenameOurBrandy. The winner will be contacted for a mutually-agreeable prize delivery date. The contest runs from April 6 through April 27, 2018. Transportation to and from Burlington, Vermont for redemption is the responsibility of the winner.
Jarek Mountain is the proprietor of Lion's Tail in Boston
Named one of the hottest new bars in America by Zagat, Lion's Tail is know for their innovative cocktail menu.
"A Cocktail Named Francis" features Mad River Revolution Rye, cognac washed with maple syrup and bacon, punt e mes, allspice, vanilla bean and smoked clove.
Boston fans! Saturday, March 10th. Returning for its third year, we'll be there pouring whiskey!
Did you know that March is traditionally the biggest snowfall month of the season in Vermont?
Do you want to ski for free? Mad River Distillers is giving away pairs of tickets to some of Vermont's best mountains!
To win a pair of tickets:
Winners selected on Friday, March 2. Good luck!
#madeinVT #craftdistilling #skiVT #rideVT #true802 #madrivervalley
Rory is the bar manager at La Voile in Boston, MA, and has worked with the whole Mad River Distillers line of spirits since we debuted in Massachusetts. The Sunset Fire cocktail features Revolution Rye and Tahitian Moon highlights Vanilla Rum. Find Rory on Instagram @50shadesofrory
Tahitian Moon
1.5 oz Mad River Vanilla Rum
0.5 oz Lazzaroni Amaretto
0.75 oz lime juice
0.25 oz ginger syrup**
1 dash Angostura bitters
3 drops Bitter Truth Pimento dram
Combine the ingredients above in a cocktail shaker, fill with ice, and shake hard. Then, fine strain everything in a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with an edible flower.
**Ginger Syrup - - Mix two parts sugar with one part fresh pressed ginger juice. Stir until sugar dissolves and bottle. Add one ounce of high proof vodka to preserve.
Sunset Fire
1.5 oz Mad River Revolution Rye
0.75 oz Emilio Lustau Amontillado Sherry
0.75 oz Wolfberger Amer Gingembre
2 barspoons Letherbee Fernet
1 tsp cane syrup (2:1)
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash Angostura Orange bitters
Combine ingredients above in a mixing glass, add ice, and stir. Strain into a chilled old fashioned glass. Garnish with a flamed orange twist and discard the peel.
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