Well, like it or not, 2024 is officially here. And if you’re like a lot of folks, you may want to take a break from all the holiday cheer over the last few weeks — perhaps by participating in Dry January. Of course, going cold turkey on all your favorite brews, spirits and the like might not be as easy as you’d like unless you can find yourself a suitable replacement.
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WhistlePig — the lauded distiller responsible for some of our favorite whiskeys of 2023, especially in the rye category — is kicking off Dry January off with a bang with its new Dank and Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail, a zero-proof bottled cocktail that swaps the alcohol for cannabis-derived terpenes.
A boundary-pushing brew, hold the alcohol
If you’re familiar with WhistlePig’s ethos, you know the brand has a penchant for pushing the limits of what whiskey can be (last year’s SummerStock comes to mind) and doing it with unique, high-end ingredients. This release is no different in that regard, but it’s a big departure in some other ways.
For starters, this bottled cocktail is zero-proof — meaning it has no alcohol in it (to be exact, it has less than 0.5 percent per volume), crafted from something the brand calls “100 [percent] Rye Non-Whiskey” — eschewing ABV for terpenes extracted from cannabis grown in whiskey barrels that’s been isolated by Satori Premium Cannabis in Vermont. And the whole thing is finished off with some barrel-aged maple syrup for a bit of sweetness.
