The Whiskey Trip - Season 2, Episode 21 - Alex Toomy, Co-Founder - Ragged Branch Distillery

The Bourbon Life

This week on The Whiskey Trip podcast, Big Chief takes a ride to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia to visit Alex Toomy from Ragged Branch Distillery.

Alex takes the big man through the history of Ragged Branch and how the late Johnny Appleseed of Whiskey, David Pickerel helped them hone their craft. This a true grain to glass distillery with their grain coming from the over 800 acres of rolling fields.

Those fields are filled with beautiful cows that are fattened with the spent grain and then the beef is sold at the tasting room. So this is really a field, to glass, to the dinner plate operation. Big Chief took some of that beef and made delicious burgers with it for Miss Viv and her parents.

They start show with their bottled in bond wheated bourbon that is aged for four years and then finished in a new barrel for another two years. This bourbon was how Big Chief found this amazing craft distillery. They then move on to the cowboy cut that is a cask strength Wheated bourbon that hits the spot.

On the second half these two old country boys start with Ragged Branch Signature Bourbon. This rye bourbon has just a little spice, like the blue ridge mountains are talking to you. To finish the show they sip on the bottled in bond rye bourbon that has that little extra kick for big guys like Big Chief.

This ride on The Whiskey Trip is dedicated for Tony Sayago, Big Chief’s father in law and a man who drank a drop or two of whiskey in his life.

Cheers!