Distillery

New Riff Distillery

24 Distillery Way
Newport, KY 41073

(859) 261-7433 Go to website

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Located a stone’s throw from downtown Cincinnati, New Riff Distilling opened in 2014. The back of their bottle states, “A New Riff On An Old Tradition,” and that tradition is sour-mash Kentucky whiskey-making. New Riff’s core Bourbon expression is a genuinely high-rye, full-bodied whiskey offering savory, spicy character. Building upon America’s 1897 Bottled in Bond Act—already the highest quality standard for aged spirits in the world—New Riff’s whiskeys are bottled in bond without chill filtration.

CLAIM TO FAME

New Riff sits directly over a limestone-rich aquifer that supplies the distillery with water. It’s an outstanding water source for whiskey-making but also a huge green energy savings.

Featured Amenities

Cocktail Bar

Signature Recipe

Old Fashioned Love Song

Ingredients

2 ounces New Riff Bourbon

1/2 ounce Pecan Simple Syrup*

2 dashes Fee Bros. Plum Bitters

1 Plum

Instructions/Notes

Add all ingredients with ice into mixing glass. Stir until chilled and strain into fresh rocks glass with ice. Garnish with plum soaked in Luxardo cherry juice; with metal cocktail stick, skewer plum and lay on angle across glass.

* Toast pecans. Chop finely in blender. Mix equal parts sugar and water, simmer with pecans until sugar dissolves. Add a bit of molasses for richness. Strain.