The actual metal part is that the distillery plays Metallica for the whiskey while it’s aging, like those fancy dairy farms that play Mozart for the cows. Regardless, it sounds like a fancy thing someone who was actually trying to make a good and interesting whiskey would do. Or maybe they worked backward from the name and decided they might as well age it in the black brandy barrels for the bit. It gets its name because the whiskey is aged in black brandy barrels. Blackened American Whiskey, which is only 90 proof, is not that. If you told me Metallica made whiskey, I’d expect some sort of 110-proof black sludge that burns harder than Fireball.
“The ultimate goal is to make a whiskey that fits into the Metallica experience and sets itself apart from all the others.” “The ultimate goal with Metallica is to connect with our fans through recordings, through concerts, and increasingly through any other way that further creates a bond,” the band said in a statement at the time. This isn’t just some one-off cash grab, though: Metallica has been making whiskey since 2018 through their distillery, Blackened (which shares its name with their song and their record label), and the guys seem to be pretty into it. I usually keep them separate - metal is my motivation on after-work runs, and a cocktail is the reward later in the night - but when I heard about Metallica’s new whiskey for the group’s new album, S&M2, I thought, Why the hell not? I deserve a little music-product tie-in as a treat. Like many, I’ve spent a good chunk of quarantine getting into things I’d meant to for a while, among them metal and whiskey. Photo: Courtesy of Blackened American Whiskey We put it to the very scientific (taste) test.
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