Southern Collective Spirits Company

Let’s set the scene. A couple of weeks ago, my brother, Jake, and I took off on a little road trip. After a few weeks we found ourselves in Nashville, TN for two nights. In-between bar hopping, exploring, and dinner, we had a couple of hours to spare. So, we did like any wise man would – we typed “distillery” into apple maps and walked to the closest one. It took us to Southern Collective Spirit Company.

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Upon walking in, we were greeted by a big ol’ doggo named Bernie, a sweet Mastif/Lab mix. It’s safe to say that things were off to a good start. We sat down and were greeted by Miss Tricia, who began explaining a little about their distillery.

We were just there to have a little whiskey, so I wasn’t exactly taking notes, but I’ll try to summarize. Southern Collective Spirit Co is a friend and family owned not-distilling distillery. This means they source their whiskey from various distilleries across the US. They hand select barrels and then finish them or create a blend in their distillery in Nashville. They also don’t cut their whiskey. Every bottle – at least every bottle we saw or tried – was barrel proof.

Well, I must’ve missed the part about barrel proof because we sat down and tried their flight of rye whiskey – all single barrel picks sourced from MGP. I was not expecting my first sip of the day to be 120-something proof and it went down the wrong pipe. It was, admittedly, a rough first sip to say the least.

We went on to sip the four or 5 whiskeys in our flight, and were then taken to the back. we tried two more whiskeys straight from the barrel – one of which was an 8 1/2 high rye bourbon which was DELICIOUS. Tricia, Shane, or anyone else at SCSC, if you’re reading this, please let me know when y’all bottle that, So I can get my hands on one!

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Summary

I’m not sure which I liked more – the people or the whiskey. That’s saying something because I thoroughly enjoyed both. I usually drink my whiskey on the rocks – I like to say that I haven’t singed off all my tastebuds from decades of drinking whiskey, yet, but rocks were unnecessary with SCSC’s whiskey. I have never had such a smooth experience with 120-130 proof whiskey.

The people at SCSC were also kind, warm, and fun. They treated us well and gave us a full run down of their whiskey before they even knew we ran a whiskey review blog.

What I’m trying to say is that if you’re ever in Nashville and want to check out a distillery, stop by Southern Collective Spirits Company. AND if you see their whiskey on the shelf, go ahead and give it a try.