Review: Bully Boy Vodka
Bully Boy Vodka is made at Boston’s first craft distiller. Bully Boy Distillery opened in 2010. It was founded by brothers Will and Dave Willis. They grew up working on their 4th generation family farm and got their beverage start making cider. Next up was hard cider. Apple brandy followed. All from apples grown on the 100 apple trees grown on their farm. They currently produce amaro, bourbon, gin, vodka, and several bottled ready to drink craft cocktails. April 2017 they built a new 8000 square foot distillery in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston across the street from their original location which remains open to distill their gin and create new spirits. Bully Boy Vodka was originally made from organic winter red wheat. It is currently distilled from 100% dent corn. The corn is harvested on their Charlescote Farm. They mill the corn and once fermented it is distilled on an 18 plate custom Christian Carl Still. Each 270 gallon batch is filtered for 48 hours through 50 pounds of activated carbon. The aroma leads with boiled corn, citrus, and pepper. The sweet lemon sugar cookie and yellow corn entry builds to a tart lemon peak. It fades with vanilla and sweet corn and finishes with lime peel and pepper.
Made in Boston MA
40% Alcohol
Score: 89
Award: Silver Medal