{"id":29220,"date":"2024-06-14T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/?p=29220"},"modified":"2024-06-15T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T05:11:50","slug":"owen-king-fredericksburg-virginia-bourbon-ironclad-distillery-ironclad-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/06\/14\/owen-king-fredericksburg-virginia-bourbon-ironclad-distillery-ironclad-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Tasting Bourbons? This Fredericksburg Bed &#038; Breakfast Might Be Your Dream, meet Owen King from Ironclad Distillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love Tasting Bourbons? This Fredericksburg Virgina Bed &amp; Breakfast Might Be Your Dream Visit, Owen King from Ironclad Distillery shares Delicious Details<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladinn.com\/\">Ironclad Inn<\/a> is the first B &amp; B &amp; B \u2013 Bed &amp; Breakfast &amp; Bourbon Tasting Room.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29236\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29236 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-1024x683.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Inn is the first B &amp; B &amp; B \u2013 Bed &amp; Breakfast &amp; Bourbon Tasting Room\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-1068x713.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM-629x420.png 629w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.34\u202fPM.png 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Inn is the first B &amp; B &amp; B \u2013 Bed &amp; Breakfast &amp; Bourbon Tasting Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today\u2019s conversation with <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Distiller Owen King<\/strong> from <strong>Ironclad Distillery <\/strong><\/span>has been edited for length and clarity.\u00a0 For the full, un-edited conversation, visit our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FlavRReport\/videos\"> YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/642c4207c7800c0011c0c040?feed=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"280px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29228\" style=\"width: 854px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29228\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Owen King, Ironclad Distillery\" width=\"854\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM.png 854w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM-696x696.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.56\u202fPM-420x420.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen King, Ironclad Distillery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of really cool things are happening right now. I want to jump into your tasting room, the distillery, we\u2019ll get into <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2024\/06\/12\/rich-caramel-and-vanilla-black-peppercorn-lingering-notes-of-baking-spice-knob-creek-anncs-10-year-old-rye-whiskey\/\">bourbon tastings<\/a> in a few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But first and foremost, <strong>what&#8217;s the most important thing with Ironclad right now<\/strong> for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most important thing about Ironclad for me right now is the same thing it&#8217;s always been, <strong>trying to make the best bourbon we can<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other thing is spreading the word about our bed and breakfast; and bourbon. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladinn.com\/\">bed and breakfast in Fredericksburg<\/a> that when you&#8217;re there, you can drink bourbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29231\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29231 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-820x1024.png\" alt=\"Ironclad's famous Old Fashioned cocktail\" width=\"696\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-768x959.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-696x869.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM-336x420.png 336w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.12\u202fPM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad&#8217;s famous Old Fashioned cocktail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We make a lot of old fashions there and we always have all these leftover oranges. Now the perfect thing is in the morning you have fresh squeezed orange juice from our [leftover] old fashions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s really working double duty now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides that I just love the fact that we can now expand our distillery up to Fredericksburg. So we can have more people try our bourbon and enjoy our bourbon, which is the goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dreaming of Waking Up with Bedside Bourbon ?  Come Taste in Virginia (Full Ep)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y01EevdWYy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting to know you before you jump into Ironclad, I want to use the word \u201cwere\u201d, you were a football player and cooking changed your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell us more about your cooking. Was there a special dish that enhanced your life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m Italian. So obviously with the Italian genes, we share our love through food. Growing up I cooked a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I went to college [I cooked]<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for my teammates.\u00a0 I&#8217;d make dinner for everyone. So when we decided to open the bourbon distillery, I figured, I know how to cook. I think I could probably figure out how to make bourbon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know flavors. I know how things go well together. I think I have a pretty decent palette.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So putting all those things together to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/la.flavrreport.com\/best-cocktail-drinking-night-harel-levy-bark-and-barware-cocktail-smoker\/\">great bourbon<\/a> was the goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food is one of those things where you never stop improving. I feel the same about bourbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29025\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FlavRReport\/videos\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29025\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8.png\" alt=\"FlavRReport.com on YouTube\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8.png 728w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8-696x86.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FlavRReport.com on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29241\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-1536x989.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-696x448.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-1068x687.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM-653x420.png 653w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.47.02\u202fPM.png 1998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is there a favorite dish?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breaded chicken cutlets and spaghetti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is how it started. Then I was like \u201cI really like cheese.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe I could put cheese in with the breadcrumbs and then do that. Then I started expanding.\u00a0 Chicken Parm.\u00a0 Making my own sauce.\u00a0 Thinking I could add something here to make that better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s the same way I look at bourbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking, \u201cI like what this person&#8217;s doing. Let me see what they&#8217;re doing. I can build off that to make it work on my own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating my own recipes, going from there, just continually tweaking little things here and there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ll make a 5% difference, maybe a 10% difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ironclad Distillery is in Newport News, Virginia. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.flavrreport.com\/ironclad-distillery-kenmore-inn-fredericksburg\/\">bed and breakfast Ironclad Inn<\/a> is in Fredericksburg, Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For most people when we think of bourbon, we don&#8217;t always think of Virginia as the first choice. <strong>What would surprise us most about coming down to Virginia for a bourbon tasting<\/strong> and staying the night?<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29229\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29229 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Distillery\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-696x391.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-1068x600.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.42.45\u202fPM-747x420.png 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Distillery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re coming down to Virginia, you have to remember <strong>Virginia is the birthplace of American spirits<\/strong>. The first place spirits were made in the new colonies, in the new world, was here in Virginia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first corn liquor which would eventually become <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.flavrreport.com\/brown-sugar-chocolate-raisins-and-cinnamon-big-bold-packed-with-flavor-bourbon-podcast-announces-2023-whiskey-of-the-year\/\">bourbon<\/a>, was made in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also talk about <strong>Elijah Craig<\/strong>, who was from Fairfax County, Virginia, before he moved out to Kentucky.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On top of that, Kentucky wasn&#8217;t a state until 1793. Evan Williams was doing distillation in 1783, and at that point Kentucky was still Virginia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The birthplace of bourbon is right here in Virginia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve been to Kentucky a lot. They talk about the birthplace of bourbon being there in Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe the territory it&#8217;s in was Kentucky, but it was still Virginia at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever someone comes by, I can tell them the history of actual bourbon, where you&#8217;re gonna get the whole story, not just the fantasized story that you get in Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m incredibly glad you just shared that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s talk about The Ironclad Bed and Breakfast now. The bourbon tasting room, the event space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wanted to spread our bourbon out around the state. We&#8217;ve always really liked Fredericksburg. It&#8217;s a beautiful town. It&#8217;s got a ton of history to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing goes better with bourbon than a good story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we can always tell our history while drinking. So with our bed and breakfast, we looked at what the bigger guys were doing. A lot of them were starting to have these places where you could stay [the night] and get an experience to go along with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We really wanted to spread our Ironclad experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a tasting room. It&#8217;s beautifully decorated by my sister. We&#8217;ve got a bottle shop where you can pick up pretty much every one of our bourbons that are available. We&#8217;ve got a bar so you can try it from our seasonal cocktail menus where we change it five times a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29239\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-1024x762.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-1536x1143.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-696x518.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-1068x795.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-565x420.png 565w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.34\u202fPM.png 1750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a winter, a fall, a spring, summer [menu].<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then a holiday menu as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter what time of year you&#8217;re there, you&#8217;re trying something that&#8217;s going to go well seasonally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29240\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-1024x666.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-1536x999.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-696x453.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-1068x695.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM-646x420.png 646w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.48\u202fPM.png 1992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone likes seasonal drinks.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want to drink in the fall, what you\u2019d drink in the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We always have an old fashioned and it&#8217;s a damn good old fashioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then we also have an event space.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have weddings. We&#8217;ve had 50th birthday parties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29238\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29238 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-941x1024.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Inn wedding and special events\" width=\"696\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-941x1024.png 941w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-768x835.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-696x757.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-1068x1162.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM-386x420.png 386w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.46.15\u202fPM.png 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Inn wedding and special events<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ve had any event that you want to tie into with our bourbon or just if you want a beautiful event space in a building that was built in 1793 we have that as a great option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a really cool spot that you can go and see and experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s something we want to share, our love for bourbon with everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you&#8217;re here in <strong>Newport News or in Fredericksburg, you&#8217;ll get a King family member there to tell you our story<\/strong> and tell you all about our bourbon and show you around.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29232\" style=\"width: 668px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.38\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Bottled-in-Bond Straight Bourbon Whiskey\" width=\"668\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.38\u202fPM.png 668w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.38\u202fPM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.38\u202fPM-333x420.png 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Bottled-in-Bond Straight Bourbon Whiskey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outstanding.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get to the tasty part now.\u00a0 You have several amazing bottles.\u00a0 When someone comes to your tasting room this weekend, what should they be looking forward to?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do a few bottle releases that are once a year for us. One of my favorites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A five year, three barrel blend of three 30 gallon barrels. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladdistillery.com\/ship\">Bottle of Bond<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The history alone is one of my favorite things to talk about.\u00a0 In 1897 the federal government stepped in because there was people dying from drinking bad whiskey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They stepped in to \u201ccertify\u201d everything in there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you bottle it at four years old and at 100 proof, we will claim that this is a bottle and bond bourbon certified\u201d by the federal government that it is safe to drink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That story alone is one of my favorites of bourbon lore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We just want to make sure that we do that every year that we can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s absolutely one of my favorite bourbons. It&#8217;s our four grain mash bill. 70% corn 10% wheat, 10% rye, 10% malted barley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So with the corn and the wheat, it adds a nice sweetness to it. But then the rye is there to kind of balance that whole thing out.\u00a0 Before it gets [to be] a very sweet bourbon, it balances out, a little baking spice, maybe even some clove, maybe a little black pepper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It balances it out to be a nice, rounded bourbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29233\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.47\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Sweeter Creations Maple Syrup Cask\" width=\"664\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.47\u202fPM.png 664w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.47\u202fPM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.47\u202fPM-333x420.png 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Sweeter Creations Maple Syrup Cask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s move on to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladdistillery.com\/ship\"><strong>Maple Syrup Cask<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolutely delicious. But this is a cast finish, not a flavored bourbon.\u00a0 So we&#8217;re not adding maple syrup to it. People who drink it might think it&#8217;s going to be super sweet and not going to like it. Because they don&#8217;t like maple syrup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is <strong>my version of drinking maple syrup<\/strong> responsibly and not getting diabetes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After we empty our barrels, we give them to a maple syrup producer in upstate New York.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll age his maple syrup using our bourbon barrels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By doing that through transference, there&#8217;s about a gallon of bourbon stuck in the staves of the wood. So when he puts a new liquid in there, that maple syrup is going to absorb into the wood and that bourbon is going to come back out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now his maple syrup is picking up that beautiful bourbon flavor and we are picking up all that maple syrup flavor into the wood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he brings those barrels back down to us, we put our aged bourbon back in there and we let him finish in there for about three to six months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After we take the bourbon out, <strong>it&#8217;s now got this beautiful, mild sweetness<\/strong>, but it&#8217;s got that hint of maple syrup at the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I always say, I don&#8217;t want it to be maple syrup with a hint of bourbon. <strong>I want it to be bourbon with a hint of maple syrup<\/strong>, which I think it absolutely is.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29234\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.57\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Missouri Toasted Oak Cask\" width=\"664\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.57\u202fPM.png 664w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.57\u202fPM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.43.57\u202fPM-334x420.png 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Missouri Toasted Oak Cask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The maple syrup is so subtle, almost a tertiary flavor to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving on to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladdistillery.com\/ship\"><strong>Missouri Toasted Oak Cask<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a double oak bourbon.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With double oaking, what you&#8217;re going to do is exactly how it sounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re going to go from one new charred oak barrel. But instead of a second new charred oak barrel, we&#8217;re going to go to a lightly toasted barrel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So my analogy for this is you&#8217;re sitting at a campfire and you&#8217;ve got a marshmallow. You&#8217;re roasting your marshmallow over the flame and it gets burnt. It catches on fire. So now you&#8217;ve got that roasted marshmallow where you&#8217;re still gonna eat it because it&#8217;s a roasted marshmallow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you eat it and it&#8217;s still sweet. But it&#8217;s got that sort of maybe a bitter acrid note just cause you burnt those sugars. You haven&#8217;t toasted them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you take another marshmallow.\u00a0 You&#8217;re a little more patient this time.\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to stick it down in the coals and you&#8217;ll slowly rotate it until you&#8217;ve got that perfectly golden brown marshmallow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you taste it, it&#8217;s now twice as sweet because you just caramelize those sugars as opposed to burning them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s the same with a charred oak barrel to a toasted oak barrel.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that charring of those oaks, you&#8217;re gonna you&#8217;re still gonna have that sweetness.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>We&#8217;re amplifying that sweetness<\/strong> with the toasting of the oak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this one you get those softer vanilla flavors like toasted marshmallow. You get a cookie dough flavor,\u00a0 maybe it&#8217;s raw cookie dough without the chocolate chips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s amazing. mm<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is there an extra bottle when I come down there, I&#8217;m in the tasting room, <strong>another good bottle we should ask for<\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another one that we have right now that is a very limited run. \u00a0 Very small release is our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironcladdistillery.com\/ship\"><strong>blueberry mead cask finish<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We give our barrels to a meadery in Williamsburg, Virginia and they make this blueberry honey mead.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now they have this <strong>bourbon barrel aged blueberry mead<\/strong>. And when they&#8217;re done with them, they give them back to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re not necessarily overwhelmed with [a] heavy blueberry flavor but it opens up to this really nice fruitiness and then like a fermented honey flavor on the front end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s so unique, but it&#8217;s great neat on the rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we come down for the weekend, we visit the distillery in Newport News. What&#8217;s a tour like?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If people aren\u2019t the biggest bourbon drinker, I want you to walk away saying, \u201cOkay, I found something that is made with bourbon that I like.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are a distillery that only makes bourbon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>I want to make sure that everyone who comes here has something they can enjoy.\u00a0<\/strong> This isn\u2019t an uppity bourbon bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want someone to come and be able to say,\u00a0 I&#8217;m not the biggest bourbon fan. What kind of cocktails do you have?\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We always have a cocktail on every single menu that&#8217;s open for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone&#8217;s going to love it and whether you&#8217;re a big bourbon fan or not.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We just really want to be accommodating. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want to be a fun place for everyone to hang out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want to tell our story, the history of the Ironclad ships.\u00a0 Go through our distillery tour, we&#8217;ll show you that. If you want to know the history of Fredericksburg, or the history of What the bed and breakfast is we&#8217;ll tell you that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nothing pairs better with bourbon than a good story.<\/strong> And we really care about spreading that word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it&#8217;s a romantic getaway, a weekend getaway, why choose your bed and breakfast instead of a hotel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we\u2019ve only had it a short time.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve been adding things here and there. You&#8217;re going to get a fresh orange juice in the morning, made with the oranges that we used for our old fashions [last night].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have <strong>our barrel aged maple syrup for your pancakes<\/strong>.\u00a0 So you&#8217;re going to have that maple syrup with a hint of bourbon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29235\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29235 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-1024x685.png\" alt=\"Ironclad Inn\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-696x466.png 696w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-1068x714.png 1068w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM-628x420.png 628w, https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-1.44.23\u202fPM.png 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ironclad Inn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We really drive home that it&#8217;s a bed breakfast and bourbon experience. Get immersed in the bourbon culture.\u00a0 That&#8217;s our goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Joe Winger:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any favorite bourbon and food pairings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Owen King:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bourbon&#8217;s wonderful for food pairings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ve gone from pasta pairings to pizza pairings.\u00a0 Anything that&#8217;s fatty is a perfect pairing.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pork belly with a cherry reduction over top of it with one of our bourbons straight\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have this bourbon cream, <strong>Buzz&#8217;s Bourbon Cream<\/strong>, where it&#8217;s made with our small batch bourbon that&#8217;s infused with coffee beans, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans. 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