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Sons of Liberty Launches New Flavored Whiskey Line

Rhode Island’s Sons of Liberty Introduces 4 Flavored Whiskies – Maple, Honey, Apple, Espresso

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sons of Liberty Spirits Co. was kind enough to provide samples so there’s already an Eat Drink RI Tasting video on YouTube for you to view: https://youtu.be/z8kWdDHfmuI

Sons of Liberty Spirits Co. has launched a brand new line of flavored whiskies that are actually obtainable all through Rhode Island and choose shops in Massachusetts; the 4 year-round flavors are Maple, Honey, Apple, and Espresso. The 750ml, 70 proof choices are all crafted with actual elements and are on retailer cabinets for a instructed retail value of simply $29.99. This line launch comes on the heels of Sons of Liberty’s current brand-refresh after practically 11 years in enterprise.

Sons of Liberty isn’t any stranger to flavored whiskey having produced numerous award-winning flavors relationship way back to 2012. Their most notable awards embody World’s Greatest Flavored Whiskey, Greatest Flavored Whiskey in North America (each awarded by Whisky Journal’s World Whiskies Awards) and a handful of gold medals from prestigious competitions. 

“We’re actually excited with how these turned out,” stated Sons of Liberty’s President and Founder, Mike Reppucci. “You don’t really feel like your tooth are coated in sugar after having fun with them.” Opposite to another flavored spirits out there, Sons of Liberty prides itself on utilizing actual elements to taste their whiskies, no chemical compounds or taste substitutes. Actual honey, actual maple syrup, actual apples, and actual espresso beans. “It simply tastes higher that method.” Mike defined.

The flavors themselves present for a lot of methods of enjoyment. “They’re very versatile whiskies,” stated Rachael Soderberg of the Product Growth Workforce. “Scrumptious on their very own or with an ice dice since they aren’t overly candy, but in addition glorious in enjoyable cocktails for the reason that whiskey itself can maintain its personal.” The crew at Sons of Liberty has quite a few cocktail recipe options on their web site (https://www.drinksol.com/cocktails).

Sons of Liberty has already shipped a second batch to market and are presently engaged on a 3rd because the preliminary response has been very constructive. To search out retailers close to you for any of Sons of Liberty’s flavored whiskies, go to https://www.drinksol.com/where-to-buy. Or order forward and decide up at Sons of Liberty’s retail store (tasting room stays closed): http://shop.drinksol.com

Please check out the Eat Drink RI Tasting video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/z8kWdDHfmuI


Anchor & Hope Wins 4 Awards at Boston Wine Competitors

4 Varietals Obtain Medals, together with a Greatest in Class for Vineyard’s 2020 Riesling 

Anchor & Hope, a craft vineyard positioned in Rumford, Rhode Island, is proud to announce that it was awarded 4 medals on the inaugural Boston Wine Competition, which started on November 4.   

Anchor & Hope’s grapes are grown on small household farms in Germany, California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and New York, and blended, aged, and packaged in Rumford. All their wines are farmed sustainably and made utilizing minimal intervention practices, leading to elegant, straightforward ingesting, and food-friendly wines.

All 4 Anchor & Hope wines submitted scored extremely within the judging standards of high quality and variety. Its 2020 Riesling acquired Greatest in Class for the class and a platinum award for receiving unanimous gold medals from the judging panel.  Grown on a historic winery web site, the off-dry Riesling is mineral-driven and bursting with ripe fruit and floral aromatics. Winemaker, mentor and grower Eckehart Groehl produces this wine with earth-friendly farming,native fermentation in stainless-steel tanks, and some pores and skin contact earlier than urgent. His winery hangs on the historic crimson slate and sandstone cliffs of Nierstein, Germany alongside the Rhine River. 

The just-released 2021 Pinot Gris acquired a gold medal for its wealthy, honeyed and tropical fruit flavors, salty minerality, and almond pastry be aware that’s derived from ageing on the native yeast with some pores and skin contact. The grapes are grown on the rolling hills above the Rhine River by the Groehl household, the place the sediment of prehistoric, calcium wealthy shells, volcanic rocks, and crimson sandstone make Rheinhessen an unimaginable place for Pinot varietals.

The 2021 Sauvignon Blanc from the Foxhole Winery in Rheinhessen, Germany, gained a silver medal for its vivid and refreshing flavors of citrus and contemporary herbs, salty minerality, and crisp acidity. Clear winemaking, prolonged pores and skin contact and sluggish, chilly fermentation in stainless, it’s the fruits of greater than 15 years      of collaboration with grower, mentor and co-winemaker, Eckehart Groehl.

Lastly, the 2020 Pinot Noir acquired a bronze medal for its ripe flavors of cranberry and raspberry enhanced by aromas of cocoa and leather-based. These Massal Choice vines have been planted and grown sustainably by companion winemakers Nico and Laura Espenschied on their household property in Flonheim, Germany. The grapes have been hand-picked and fermented in open tonneau by native yeasts earlier than softening and ageing for 18 months in massive oak tonneau.

The Boston Wine Competitors showcases wine range throughout the globe, spotlighting wines that earn famend recognition. Judges rating wines extremely, based mostly on the winemaker’s means to stability the artwork and science of winemaking, whereas making sound, high quality wines that buyers will love. 

Raye Bouschet, Government Director and co-founder of the Boston Wine Competitors says, “Our competitors celebrates wines that seize the essence of artwork and science within the glass, from vine to bottle. This competitors not solely analyzes high quality, however locations emphasis on what differentiates it from the pack. We’re on a mission to showcase winemakers that categorical grape and regional range and rejoice what every winemaker brings to the desk.”

The judging panel on the competitors was made up of sommeliers, patrons and writers with in depth business shopping for accountability. Through the judging stage, judges decided which entries have been worthy of a platinum, gold, silver, or bronze medal. Entries that acquired a gold medal from all judges on a panel earned a platinum award. On the ultimate day of the competitors, platinum and gold winners superior to the sweepstakes spherical to find out Greatest in Class and Greatest in Present winners.

“In in the present day’s aggressive market, and with extra subtle customers preferring range and uniqueness of their wine, a well-made wine shouldn’t be sufficient to win over a buyer. This competitors awards wineries that categorical the grape’s potential in its given area, appellation, and winery, making these awards extremely important for us as a rising model,” stated Anchor & Hope co-owner and winemaker James Davids. “Not solely does this recognition present that we’re making the varieties of wines that clients will take pleasure in, however that we’re additionally making high quality wines that stand out in a crowd.”


RI Seafood Launches New Web site Instruments And “Fishline” App To Assist Native Shoppers Discover Contemporary, Native Seafood

The Rhode Island Seafood Advertising and marketing Collaborative has launched a cellular app and a redesigned web site to intensify Rhode Island customers’ consciousness of the worth, enchantment, and year-round availability of contemporary, native Rhode Island seafood, the Division of Environmental Administration (DEM) introduced in the present day. Developed in partnership with the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island, the brand new app, FishLine, lets customers seek for contemporary seafood to purchase from seafood markets, farmers’ markets, and eating places, in addition to immediately off the boat from fishermen. The FishLine app and newly up to date SeafoodRI.com web site are examples of ways in which the state is attempting to spice up its business fishing and seafood business, and strengthen Rhode Island’s native meals system and meals financial system.

“Making it simpler for individuals to search out and purchase Rhode Island seafood is nice for everybody,” stated Governor Dan McKee. “It helps the hundreds of hard-working women and men of one of many Ocean State’s oldest industries, celebrates the eating places and seafood sellers and meals companies which have made Rhode Island such a ‘foodie’ vacation spot, and ensures a gentle provide of contemporary, wholesome, domestically caught seafood, which is a cornerstone of our state meals safety technique.”

“From calamari to oysters to varied species of finfish, Rhode Island seafood is already identified all over the world; what we’re attempting to do is jolt curiosity in and demand for our seafood proper right here in Rhode Island,” stated DEM Director Terry Grey. “By means of the brand new FishLine app and web site, DEM desires to assist join native customers and particularly youthful customers to native seafood as a result of native is contemporary and contemporary is scrumptious.”

“Entry to contemporary Rhode Island seafood is now, actually, on the fingertips of all Rhode Islanders,” stated Robert Ballou, Chair of the RI Seafood Advertising and marketing Collaborative. “Rising client consciousness of and demand for Rhode Island seafood merchandise in Rhode Island will increase in-state gross sales, spurs progress of the native seafood financial system, and helps a stronger, extra resilient native meals system that’s much less depending on much less dependable out-of-state sources. Shorter provide chains, or meals miles, even have smaller carbon footprints, thereby serving to to mitigate the impacts of local weather change.”

The brand new FishLine app and SeafoodRI.com record greater than 40 eating places, seafood markets, grocers, and direct sellers that supply native seafood, profiles about native species and harvesters, and suggestions for how you can prepare dinner and revel in it. Direct sellers and different seafood retailers can use the app to publish real-time updates on landings and gross sales alternatives, serving to customers geo-locate the alternatives to buy and revel in RI seafood closest to the place they’re positioned. Merely go to SeafoodRI.com and click on on the RI Seafood Finder to get began or obtain the FishLine app from the Apple or Android app retailer.

Each instruments are initiatives of the RI Seafood Marketing Collaborative and business companions to advertise and market contemporary Rhode Island seafood. The trademarked RI Seafood brand logo is a core element. Over the previous yr, the RI Seafood brand has been featured in a wide range of on-line and print commercials throughout Rhode Island and at public occasions together with the Charlestown Seafood Pageant, the Newport Seafood Pageant, and most not too long ago, the Style of Rhode Island, the place Chef Frank Terranova demonstrated how you can put together domestically landed monkfish to just about 1,000 attendees.  The 2022 RI Seafood Advertising and marketing marketing campaign is supported by a federal Saltonstall-Kennedy grant awarded to DEM and the Collaborative by NOAA Fisheries final yr.

Established by the Rhode Island Basic Meeting in 2011, the RI Seafood Advertising and marketing Collaborative is a public-private physique that goals to help native fishermen and seafood farmers and improve consciousness and consumption of domestically harvested species by the general public. Its membership consists of representatives from all key sectors of the business fishing, aquaculture, and seafood industries joined by representatives from URI, RI Sea Grant, and state businesses together with DEM, which chairs the group, and the RI Commerce Company, Rhode Island Division of Well being, and RI Coastal Sources Administration Council.

Rhode Island has a various and dynamic business fishing and seafood business. Steeped in custom, the business continues to thrive due to the well being and abundance of domestically obtainable fishery assets and the ingenuity and sweat of hundreds of hard-working women and men who harvest seafood and make it obtainable to customers in Rhode Island, throughout the USA, and all over the world. Annual wild harvest landings complete over 80 million kilos, valued at over $100 million (ex-vessel). These landings yield a complete financial output valued at over $400 million and help over 4,000 jobs, according to a URI study. As well as, shellfish farms in RI waters produce greater than 8 million oysters yearly, with a farm-gate worth of practically $6 million. The business fishing business has rebounded after large challenges posed by the COVID pandemic, with 2021 landings, valued at greater than $102 million, up by 31% over 2020 landings (ex-vessel), according to the DEM Division of Marine Fisheries.

Observe RI Seafood on Facebook or Instagram (@RI.seafood) for well timed updates. Sellers of RI seafood keen on becoming a member of the RI Seafood Advertising and marketing Marketing campaign can enroll on the RI Seafood website. For extra data on DEM packages and initiatives, go to www.dem.ri.gov. Observe DEM on Facebook, Twitter (@RhodeIslandDEM), or Instagram (@rhodeisland.dem).


“Purchase One, Give One” Lasagna Promotion Returns at Giusto

Now in its third yr, the “Purchase One, Give One Lasagna” promotion is again for the vacations. Giusto is promoting their ready-to-bake lasagnas to help the MLK Center in Newport. For every lasagna bought, Giusto will donate one to the MLK Heart. There are two variations obtainable, Meat Bolognese and Mushroom Ragu. Every lasagna serves 6-8 individuals and prices $75. To order: 401-324-7400 (with 24 hours discover).


Neon Market Opens in Windfall; marks Event with $10,000 Donation to Hasbro Kids’s Hospital

New Location is the Rising C-Retailer Model’s Sixth Retailer, and its Fourth in Rhode Island 

Examine Presentation: Tracey Wallace, Vice President, Pediatric Providers, Hasbro Kids’s Hospital; Michele Brannigan, Senior Main Items Officer and Marketing campaign Supervisor; Bahjat Shariff, Model Chief, Neon Market; Ralph Izzi, Vice President, Company Advertising and marketing & Public Affairs, The Procaccianti Firms.

Neon Market, the most recent, most modern, and elevated model within the comfort retailer business, with places in Warwick, Rhode Island and Seekonk and Freetown, Massachusetts and categorical places in Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is happy to announce the opening of its latest retailer at 288 Kinsley Avenue in Windfall. 

Neon celebrated the grand opening with a ribbon reducing ceremony with Windfall Mayor Jorge Elorza, Mayor-Elect Brett Smiley, and Windfall Metropolis Councilman Oscar Vargas, in addition to a $10,000 donation to Hasbro Kids’s Hospital.

The primary 100 clients on the Windfall location additionally acquired a particular winter-themed reward with buy.

“We’re thrilled to open our doorways within the Capital Metropolis,” stated Bahjat Shariff, Model Chief, Neon Market. “With our handy location, competitively-priced fuel, Tesla charging stations, and chef-inspired meals and beverage selections, we hope to turn into the go-to cease for the local people and guests alike.”

Neon Market affords a full array of eating choices, together with its signature artisan, hand-pressed pizzas. Developed along side James Beard award-winning chef and restaurateur Michael Schlow, Neon’s pizza pies are baked mild and fluffy onsite in Neon’s conventional brick ovens. Every hand-crafted pizza pie begins with dough that’s proofed for a number of hours to present it a light-weight and ethereal texture, and is then baked in Neon’s brick ovens. On “Pizza Twos-day” Tuesdays, clients can decide up any two of Neon’s Roman-style specialty pizzas topped with house-made sauce and Neon’s signature three-cheese mix for simply $15.00 on the Windfall, Warwick, Seekonk, and Freetown places.  

Along with its signature pizzas, Neon affords a wide range of made-to-order and grab-and-go choices, together with connoisseur coffees, breakfast sandwiches and baked items; hand-made grinders and sandwiches; salads; snacks; fountain and cooler drinks; in addition to supply and catering companies for any measurement group and for any event.    

Quickly, company of the Windfall location will be capable to take pleasure in Neon’s new rooster sandwiches, which function a alternative of a buttermilk-battered crispy rooster breast or a young sous vide rooster breast grilled to perfection andtopped with tangy pickles and the marginally candy, barely spicy, and at all times creamy Neon sauce served on a toasted brioche bun.  Friends could make their sandwiches deluxe with the addition of crispy bacon, American cheese, inexperienced leaf lettuce, sliced tomato, and onion.

Neon additionally not too long ago added new menu objects impressed by the flavors of the vacation season, together with Peppermint Sizzling Chocolate: further wealthy darkish sizzling chocolate with a kiss of peppermint and completed with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and crushed peppermint candies; a Peppermint Mocha: Neon’s clean and wealthy espresso infused with chocolate sauce, wintery peppermint, and steamed milk and completed with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and crushed peppermint candies; an Iced Peppermint Mocha: clean and wealthy espresso infused with chocolate sauce, wintery peppermint, and milk, poured over ice, then completed with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and crushed peppermint candies; and an indulgent Sweet Cane Cookies & Cream Milkshake: creamy vanilla mushy serve ice cream blended with peppermint and Oreo cookies and topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and crushed peppermint candies.   

Seasonal baked items, made contemporary in-house day by day, will function the Cranberry Orange Nut Muffin full of juicy cranberries, tangy orange items, and toasted walnuts, and the decadent Purple Velvet Cookie with white, darkish, and milk chocolate items, obtainable heat.

Neon Market caters to in the present day’s trendy traveler by delivering a uniquely refreshing and classy expertise designed to create loyal clients. Neon places are focused to areas the place the comfort retailer buyer is presently underserved and in areas the place rising populations and/or enterprise progress has resulted in elevated automobile visitors and client demand.   Friends are additionally inspired to obtain the Neon Rewards app on their iPhone or Android gadget to obtain particular reductions all year long. Neon Rewards members who additionally be part of Spot Pay will obtain 10-cents off each gallon of gasoline bought at some point of their membership. Spot Pay affords all collaborating members reductions and instantaneous reward funds on gas purchases. 





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