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Rhythm and Booze Records Releases Music In A Whisky Bottle

Brand new indie spirits bottler and record label combines whisky and new music, starting with a 13-year-old single cask release featuring a new EP from label co-founders Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald, who play as blues duo The Rhythm and Booze Project.

Tasting whisky while listening to great music is one of life’s great pleasures. Now, a new indie spirits bottler and record label is releasing an experiment that combines the two together.

Rhythm and Booze Records blends new music and specially curated spirits to create unique tasting and listening experiences. On July 6th, the label will release its first whisky, Rhythm and Booze Records #1: The Rhythm and Booze Project 13YO Single Sherry Butt Blended Malt, paired with music from label co-founders Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald, who play as blues duo The Rhythm and Booze Project.

Here’s how it works. The whisky itself is a single cask 13-year old-blended malt matured in an ex-Oloroso sherry butt, bottled at 50% ABV with only 1050 bottles available. The whisky’s front label showcases the band while a QR code on the back label leads to a private link where customers and fans can stream and download the band’s new EP to enjoy as they sip the whisky.

Schrieberg is proud of the label’s debut: “We want each of our releases to be a unique artistic statement for the ears, nose and palate. You won’t find these songs on any streaming site for a very long time after we launch this new bottle.”

Archibald explains how the music and the whisky compliment each other: “We create a pretty gritty, raucous sound, and in our performances we want our audience to be a part of that and enjoy it. We felt that the profile really manages to capture that in alcohol form. It’s quite rich and robust, but also surprisingly easy to drink.”

Schrieberg and Archibald are deeply experienced blending whisky and music together. As The Rhythm and Booze Project, they regularly organise hybrid gig whisky tastings, put on blues and whisky-based theatre shows, perform at distilleries, and they even built the world’s first bass drum out of an entire Scotch whisky cask. Schrieberg is also an award-winning whisky writer and is a Keeper of the Quaich, a society honouring those who have made significant contributions to the Scotch whisky industry.

Rhythm and Booze Records represents the next step for them in their musical and whisky journey. While the label features bands they play in to start, the roster will expand to include other artists they admire by 2024.

Schrieberg comments: “It sounds pretentious, but I really do believe that we’re just at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to exploring the sensory possibilities  from combining top quality spirits and music. We want to take this combination as far as we can, and provide an unforgettable experience to anyone that buys any of our bottles.”

About Rhythm and Booze Records Release #1
Shop link: https://tinyurl.com/RnBRwhisky
Price: £65, 50 cl bottle (UK retail price inc. VAT)
ABV: 50%
Tasting notes:

Body – Rich and fruity

Aromas – There’s no questioning the sherry influence but it’s not overwhelming, or too dark or dry. Sherry’s trademark red fruits and winter spices are certainly present, but are nicely balanced by notes of toffee, coffee, and root beer.

Taste – Raspberries and strawberries lead the way before descending into richer goopy notes – maple syrup and caramel. Riding on the syrupy texture, citrus notes of orange and grapefruit but also dark chocolate provide further depth. After a little more time a hint of leather also emerges to complete this classy and poised palate.

About Rhythm and Booze Records – Website

Rhythm and Booze Records is a record label and indie bottler blending amazing music and specially curated spirits together to create unique tasting and listening experiences.

First, the band finds an independent artist to work with, then chooses a high quality matured spirit – whisky, Cognac or rum – that is a perfect fit for the music they make.

The final step is to put the two together.

For each release, the bottle’s front label showcases the featured band, and on the back label there’s a QR code leading to a private link where the band’s tunes are available to stream, download and to enjoy with the chosen spirit.

Rhythm and Booze Records is co-founded and run by whisky writer and singer/lap steel guitarist Felipe Schrieberg and drummer Paul Archibald, who’ve been playing together for over 14 years across many different bands covering a wide variety of genres.

About The Rhythm and Booze Project – Website

The Rhythm and Booze Project features Felipe and Paul, a duo fusing live music and whisky through gigs, tasting events, and multimedia experiences.

As a musical outfit, the band incorporates roots, folk, and blues music in a uniquely gritty mix of its own, blending hypnotic grooves with raucous energy and irresistible showmanship. For their whisky tasting events, Felipe and Paul merge performance, live music, and multi-sensory experiences.

Past projects include a sold out run performing Two Guys, Three Drams, a show that combined blues music and whisky at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and building the world’s first bass drum made out of an entire Scotch whisky cask from the Lagavulin distillery.

With five professional degrees between them, Felipe and Paul have an academic background to match. Felipe wrote his Masters degree thesis on sustainable distillation on Islay conducting field interviews after Islay’s Feis Ile whisky festival, while Paul has completed a PhD in the history of jazz drumming and the drum kit in New Orleans.

Felipe is also a leading writer about all aspects of whisky for top industry publications including the websites distiller.com and scotchwhisky.com, and also writes about whisky for Forbes.com. He has won the 2022 Icons of Whisky Communicator of the Year award, and is also a Keeper of the Quaich.

June 2023 Auction  // 30.06.23 – 10.07.23

ENDS SOON: June Auction

Our June auction. Featuring over 6,000 rare whiskies and fine spirits, this is a unique opportunity to bid on some of the world’s most sought-after bottles.

 This month’s auction sees a private collection of incredible Japanese whiskies appear: a range of Karuizawa comes to auction, featuring Warren Khong, Geisha bottlings and the extremely rare Water of Life.

Out of Japan, back in Scotland and Ireland, bottles from long-closed distilleries also feature for the first time: Glenfyne ‘ Glamis’ Circa 1930s and Jameson 10 Year Old 1934 US Import. Discover a selection of auction highlights below.

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Our July 2023 collection schedule has now been finalised. This includes a trip to Orkney. We will also be collecting north of Inverness during this run.

Please click HERE for the list of dates, locations and to register your interest in this service. The deadline for collection requests is 12noon on Monday 10th July 2023.

Home collections are available for those customers sending 10+ bottles or bottles to the value of £1000. Unfortunately this service is not available in London or to those customer who live within 10 miles of a collection point.

Collections are limited and offered on a first come first served basis.

It is essential that a submission sheet is completed, you can do so under the selling section on your ‘My SWA’ page.

It would be appreciated if bottles could be packed for uplift with your name clearly marked on the front of the box.

A winner in our auction? We are now offering a delivery service to customers who are dropping bottles off for a future auction. This service is charged at £12 (inc VAT), optional loss and breakage cover is available.

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Opposites attract: Bimber and Compass Box unveil

‘Duality’ blended malt whiskies

Bimber Distillery together with Compass Box have today revealed ‘Duality’ – a duet of blended malt whiskies created collaboratively by the two London-based Whiskymakers. Featuring two distinct, yet connected whiskies which will be released at the same time – the Duality expressions bring the tradition of generously trading casks to their homes in West London and have been crafted as an exploration of the symmetry and contrasts of sherry-matured whiskies and heavily peated malts. Each is composed of components sourced from both England and Scotland and strives to juxtapose youth and maturity with texture and intensity to create new united harmonies. Both Duality expressions will be available from Tuesday 4^th July directly from the respective producer’s websites.

Designed by Bimber’s Matt McKay and Compass Box’s James Saxon, the two Duality releases were created highly collaboratively with both Whiskymakers working in tandem. The London-based partners explored a wide-range of component whiskies from both Bimber’s growing warehouse and Compass Box’s extensive Scotch archive – each selecting a distinctive sherried and peated element for their individual Duality blended malts. The final whiskies not only offer balance and symmetries within their own bottles – but they also stand as a different duo created from an initial shared vision.

The Bimber Duality release takes textural, vibrantly fruity Bimber drawn from a peated ex-bourbon cask and combines it with a parcel of venerable 1^st fill sherried malt from Glendullan Distillery. The release consists of 340 bottles presented at 54% ABV and with an RRP of £120.

The Compass Box Duality takes a core of intensely smoky whisky from Ardbeg Distillery and combines it with rich and textural Pedro Ximénez-matured Bimber whisky. The release consists of 1,050 bottles presented at 52% ABV and with an RRP of £180.

Speaking of the launch of the two Duality releases, Matt McKay from Bimber said: “It has been a pleasure to create Duality with a team as passionate and inventive as Compass Box. The end results speak not only to the mindsets and approaches of both a distillery and a Whiskymaker in conjunction, but also to the incredible versatility of the component malts which have been selected for blending. The Bimber Duality bottling is the first time our London whisky has been utilised in conjunction with malts from different distilleries – we’re incredibly proud of the result and are delighted to have collaborated with Compass Box to produce this duo of Dualities.”

James Saxon from Compass Box added: “I’ve been a huge admirer of Bimber since visiting in September 2020 – my first distillery tour after lockdown! I have wanted to find a way to bring the attention to detail and distinctiveness of Bimber’s spirits into a Compass Box project since that day. Working with the Bimber team, we created Duality and a pair of releases to celebrate our West London Whiskymaking connection. Duality is unlike anything we have made at Compass Box before – the weight and texture the Bimber brings to our heavily-peated Islay malt is truly compelling.”

Duality Blended Malt Whiskies  

Distribution

Compass Box Duality will be available from Tuesday 4^th July 2023 via www.compassboxwhisky.com

Bimber Duality will be available from Tuesday 4^th July 2023 via www.bimberdistillery.co.uk

About Bimber

Bimber Distillery produces world-class single malt whisky, handcrafted with passion in West London. As a leading distiller of English whisky, we combine generations of rich distilling heritage, with the finest quality ingredients to create the ultimate craft whisky experience.

About Compass Box 

Compass Box are Scotch Whiskymakers. The word ‘Whiskymaker’ is their word – it does not appear in a dictionary. For over 20 years they have been relentlessly focused on reinventing Scotch whisky, with every new blend designed to help make the world of whisky a more interesting place. They have not done it on their own and have collaborated with some of the world’s most visionary bartenders and designers to really push the boundaries of what is possible. They are always experimenting, always looking for sparks of creativity that will deliver something totally compelling, yet completely surprising. This vision motivates them as Whiskymakers.

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From Ardnamurchan Distillery

It was an incredible experience for the Aberdeen Whisky Shop Team to visit the Ardnamurchan Distillery in 2022. We had the opportunity to learn all about the distillery, meet the amazing team, and sample some extraordinary casks from their warehouse.

We were fortunate enough to be able to bottle a special cask exclusively for our shop, and we absolutely fell in love with it!

Ardnamurchan AD/10:15 CK.675

This single malt was distilled in October 2015, using peated barley and aged in Refill American Oak Ex-Bourbon Barrel for seven years before bottling on the 16th of May 2023. Only 235 bottles were produced.

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