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DRINK RECIPES


CROWN ROYAL BLACK BEAUTY


What you need 1 oz. Crown Royal Black® Canadian Whisky


0.5 oz. Triple Sec 1 splash grenadine 3 oz. club soda


How to make it 1. Fill a highball glass with ice. 2. Add the first three ingredients. 3. Top with club soda. 4. Garnish with a lime.


Please enjoy responsibly.


CROWN ROYAL OLD FASHIONED


What you need 1 oz. Crown Royal® Canadian Whisky 0.25 oz. bitters 1 tsp. sugar 1 splash water 1 lemon twist 1 orange slice 1 maraschino cherry


How to make it Place ingredients in a rocks glass and garnish with a lemon twist, orange slice and a cherry.


Please enjoy responsibly.


an intricate blend of up to 60 different whiskies. Grains such as corn, rye and barley malt are distilled and aged on site in 46 warehouses which, with the new addition in the works, will be able to store more than 1.36 million barrels of aging whisky. An astounding variety of casks line the walls in bonds of 540 bar- rels, scenting the air with a heady mix of sweet wood and alcohol. Te wood bar- rels utilized for each particular distillate differ and each barrel, new or previously flavoured, will yield a distinctive spirit. Te Gimli plant blends Crown Royal,


V.O., Five Star and 83 brands. Te facil- ity produces five different distillates – a continuous base whisky which is odour- less and a batch base whisky with fruity caramel notes, (continuous and batch re- fer to their distinct distillation process- es), rye flavouring, bourbon flavouring and coffey rye. Gimli has the only cof- fey rye still in North America, making it unique. Coffey rye is made here for four weeks each year and requires 11 years to mature in new wood barrels. Diageo uses proprietary yeasts that they grow on site for use in Crown Royal. It is the intense blending process that makes Crown Royal so sought after. A mix of art and science, creating a consis- tent whisky year after year is an arduous process. Te blender’s role is an impor- tant one, based on scientific measure- ments, while the quality control tasting are equally important to ensure consis- tency of flavour. Te product is constant- ly going through the quality control lab. Te completion of every step or transfer to a new container results in quality tast- ings to ensure the flavours do not devi- ate.


Diageo produces 350,000 litres of


Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye was recently named the 2016 World Whisky of the Year, the first time a Canadian whisky has received this honour.


double strength Crown Royal per week. Te majority of the finished product, 98 per cent, is transferred into railcars for transport to the Amherstburg plant in Ontario for reduction and bottling. Tis past year, Crown Royal celebrated


its 75th anniversary, and to commemo- rate the milestone, the brand released Crown Royal 75th Anniversary Blend, a limited edition Canadian whisky created to celebrate the brand’s original blend and the noble beginnings of Crown Royal. Today, the legacy of Crown Royal re- mains how it began, the epitome of Ca- nadian whisky, with a smooth taste and a regal style all its own.


The Crown Royal family:


• Crown Royal • Crown Royal Black • Crown Royal Reserve • Crown Royal XR (Extra Rare)


36 • Winter 2015


• Crown Royal Maple Finished • Crown Royal XO • Crown Royal Regal Apple • Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye


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