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New Hungarian White Oak Snowflake Release

When you go to bed in Colorado you never know what you will wake up to. It could have dumped big fat dry snow all night and there are 4 foot drifts up against your front door. There could be a light even dusting of fine snow like a few shakes from a flour sifter all over the landscape. You might wake up to a spring-like morning as I did this morning...I wore shorts to work!

Listening to.......

Here at Stranahan's we love good music almost as much as we love good whiskey, but you already knew that.  We are proud to announce that Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey will be sponsoring the "Mile Hi-Fidelity stage" at South by Southwest this year in Austin.  Hope to see you there!

Jake

General Update.....

     It has recently been brought to my attention that you guys "out there", need a bit of updating on the goings on around here.

On Donner, on Blitzen, online shopping

Well the turkey is dead and the goose is getting nervous.

The Killing Frost

Fall has fallen and winter is peeking around the corner.  The mornings are crisp and the evenings a deep  clear mountain cold.  Leaves are falling and I can smell the brats and peppers on the grill and hear the roar of the football game.  Fall in Colorado is wonderful, a drive through the mountains makes you wonder how any one made it past the beauty of the Rocky Mountains on their way west.  Seas of brilliant golden shimmering aspens, the scattered red burst of a scrub oak and endless green spans of Colorado pine as far as the eye can see.  The vista is beauti

"Long time no see" or "The quiet before the storm"

Numbers

4/8/09 was 5 years to the day that I laid down our first barrel of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey.  To commemorate this occasion John Hinkenlooper, Mayor of Denver attended a ceremony at the distillery and hammered in the bung on our 1000th barrel.  On a fun note, 1000 barrels makes 5280 gallons of whiskey, and as you might know denver is exactly 5280 feet above sea level.  The day after sealing our 1000th barrel we bottled our 100,000th bottle of Stranahan's.  Wow time flies when your having fun, and we are just getting started.  Thank you all for supporting us in th

Its a date!

I am often asked about the "distilled on date" on the label of a bottle of Stranhan's.  When I set out to bottle a batch of whiskey I hand select 12 barrels of whiskey varying in age from 2 years to 5 years old and marry them together.  The cask strength whiskey is then cut down to exactly 94 proof using Eldoroado Springs water.  The date we write on the label will generally be the youngest barrel in the batch. Cheers Jake

First Snowflake release- Hungarian white oak wine cask finish

The first Snowflake special edition goes on sale Monday 1/12/09, a Hungarian white oak cask finish.  There is extremely limited amount available, so stop in and buy a bottle soon.  When it is gone , ti is gone. 

Pure as the driven snow

      They say no two snowflakes are the same.  On that giant rocky mountain of white glistening snow, no two flakes are alike.   The same can be said of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey.   Each batch has its own characteristics, its own nuance that makes it unique.  We cherish that quality about our whiskey.  To celebrate the handmade character of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey we are releasing a line of extremely limited edition one-off bottlings aptly named Snowflakes.