Straight Rye Whiskey

This Pennsylvania style rye, with a mash bill of 45% unmalted rye, 30% malted rye, 24% malted barley and 1% chocolate malt, celebrates Ingleside Terrace. Ingleside is a tight knit community that touches the city and forest. In the shape of an inverted U, it feels isolated from the urban core of Mt. P. and is currently known for its constant flow of babies being born, children running free, and epic block parties. Also mating nearby, the Douglass Commonwealth’s state bird, the Wood Thrush, can be found nesting in Rock Creek Park just west of Ingleside. Walt Whitman and John Borroughs often walked these woods and identified the bird in its DC environs.

After tasting through the barrels for the Ingleside Terrace batch, there were two that stood out as exceptional and unique which we decided to bottle as single barrels. The remaining four barrels went into a blend. We are honored to have our Ingleside Terrace Rye Single Barrel 27 awarded Platinum at the Las Vegas Global Spirit Awards and Barrel 146 awarded Gold at the John Barleycorn Awards!

Single Barrel 146

  • Age: 7 Years 1 Month

  • Proof: 104

  • ALC/VOL: 52%

  • Bottles: 196

Single Barrel 27

  • Age: 6 Years 9 Months

  • Proof: 108

  • ALC/VOL: 54%

  • Bottles: 176

Blend of Four Barrels

  • Age: 5 Years 2 Months

  • Proof: 94

  • ALC/VOL: 47%

Label Art by Mt. Pleasant Artist Elizabeth Kim

Elizabeth Kim is a painter who paints anything that inspires a sense of finding beauty or playfulness in the ordinary. Her vibrant interpretations of everyday images aim to uphold an other-worldly or dreamlike lens through which the viewer can experience ordinary scenes as something magical.

She has been a Mount Pleasant resident for four years and has fallen in love with the communal and creative spirit of the neighborhood. One of her favorite pastimes is walking in Rock Creek Park, where she has been lucky enough to both see and hear the wood thrush.

Her original paintings and prints can be found at her Instagram @escape.artism and her website at www.elizabethkimart.com.

A terrace is defined as a street that follows the top of a slope. Indeed, Ingleside Terrace sits at the top of a slope down to what used to be Piney Branch Creek. As one of the first estates of what later became Mt. Pleasant, the “Ingleside” mansion was built around 1850 for Henry Ingle, who had been the secretary to Stephen Girard, the French born American financier that bought war bonds in 1812 which helped keep the war effort afloat. The Italianate designed villa fell into the Walbridge family’s control and remained there until around 1890. The structure (with some notable modifications – such as its entrance now facing north, rather than the original south which is now the alley between Newton and Monroe) still stands today at 1818 Newton Street as part of the Stoddard Baptist Home.

Before it was buried to make way for the Piney Branch Parkway, the Piney Branch was once one of the largest tributaries of Rock Creek. Potomac Native American tribes inhabited these areas and abandoned quarries, used to make tools and arrowheads, were discovered in Piney Branch.

As one of the first recorded explorers of this area, John Burroughs (1837-1921) is ranked as one of the essential nature writers of the time. He was known to have spent time exploring the region with his older pal, the poet Walt Whitman in the 1860’s. In Burrough’s 1871 book, “Wake-Robin” he identified “Piney Branch as the place he went each spring to hear the distinctive song of the returning wood thrush.” On January 31, 1967, this bird was designated as the official bird of the District of Columbia and is proudly depicted on our Ingleside Terrace Rye label.

To find out more about the history of the Piney Branch, find Steve Dryden’s excellent piece, entitled, “No Ignoble Stream” Washington History. SPRING 2021, Vol. 33, No.1.