The Whisky X is a Whisky “experience” promoting “whisky, music, food and style”. It’s a traveling whiskey and concert event stopping in Chicago, Austin, Denver and Las Vegas.

On September 10th the tour stopped in Brooklyn. It was held at Industry City which is a huge arts and entertainment center near the waterfront in Sunset Park featuring “eats, drinks and play”.

There were 60+ whiskies and cocktails to sample at the outdoor courtyard and indoors with a good selection of American whiskies, Irish whiskies, Scotch whiskies and for some reason, a table of rum. If you were in the mood for haircut with your whisky, there were a couple of barbers on hand to give you one.

Unlike most of these events there was a live band performing later in the evening. That band that evening was “Guster” and while I didn’t stick around for the concert, they did have an impressive collection of musical instruments on stage.

Some whiskies (and an outlier rum) that I sampled:

Calumet: small batch blend, straight bourbon, 15yr bourbon	Hudson Whiskey NY: Do the rye thing, bright lights big bourbon
Blackened: Kentucky straight rye, whisky blend	Woodinville: 100% Rye, straight bourbon
Roe & Co: Irish whiskey	The Irishman: Single malt
Busker: Single grain Irish whiskey	Teeling: Single batch Irish whiskey
McConnel“s: Irish Whiskey	Jim Beam: Kentucky straight bourbon
Basi Hayden’s: Kentucky straight bourbon	Knob Creek: Kentucky straight bourbon
Whistle Pig: Piggy back 6yr	Clyde May’s: Straight rye, straight bourbon
Gosling’s: Old rum, papa seal	Legent: Bourbon