Cardinal Spirits Adding Their Spin To The history Of Repeal Day

​Big fan of spirits? How about craft spirits? How about history? Well, if you are a fan of all three then may I suggest you spend Repeal Day - Dec. 5, the day Prohibition ended – at Cardinal Spirits where they will be bottling the first barrel of whiskey they ever made.

Cardinal Spirits opened in Bloomington, Ind. back in May of this year and started serving their single malt whiskey, White Oak, around the same time. But while they were bottling, they made sure to leave their first barrel untouched, possibly for this momentous day.

White Oak is an unaged, 80 proof whiskey that Cardinal Spirits describes its flavor profile as, “classic malt flavor, grain forward, roasty, toasty, and sweet.”

You may be asking yourself, “What’s the difference between the whiskey made by other craft distillers in Indiana and Cardinal Spirits White Oak?” Two words: Single Malt. American whiskey tends to fall into two categories: rye and bourbon; so to create a single malt whiskey, a distiller must use only one type of malted grain. Cardinal Spirits uses 100 percent malted barley, which they procure from Sugar Creek Malt Company located in Lebanon, Ind.

It can’t be too coincidental that Cardinal Spirits decided to bottle their first barrel of White Oak on the same day the United States government fully ratified the Twenty First Amendment? I think not.