It must be pretty cool to have a whiskey created and named after you.
Scott “Griff” Griffin of Cedar Rapids has that honor with the release this weekend of Griff’s Cowboy Whiskey produced at Cedar Ridge Vineyards, Winery and Distillery in Swisher.
It all started about a year-and-a-half ago when Griff asked his friend Jeff Quint, Cedar Ridge co-founder and master distiller, to make him some cowboy whiskey.
Quint, who makes vodka and rum at Cedar Ridge, was up for the challenge. He researched cowboy whiskey recipes from the 1800s and tested various formulas before coming up with “a true American corn mash whiskey.”
“We are from Iowa, we want that product,” Griff says. “I couldn’t think of a better place to get the corn from than here.”
Scott "Griff" Griffin of Cedar Rapids
“There’s a romantic view of the cowboy’s ideal,” he says. “Things are more complicated now and not for the better. I wish it could be simple and we could go back to those times.”
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