![]() ![]() BLACKENED Whiskey is now crafted and propelled onward by category disruptor and Master Distiller & Blender Rob Dietrich. The original BLACKENED Whiskey recipe was envisioned by Founding Master Distiller Dave Pickerell. The result is a magnificently balanced whiskey that’s robust in flavor and ideal for sipping neat, on the rocks, or in a classic signature cocktail. This sonic-enhancement process produces low hertz sound waves causing the whiskey to reverberate at a fast rate, interacting with the oak staves of the barrel, measurably releasing wood compounds and flavors like toasted coconut, vanilla, butterscotch, and caramel. The BLACK NOISE process was co-developed by engineers at Meyer Sound, global leaders in sound technology. This award-winning whiskey is a blend of the finest straight bourbon & rye whiskeys and is uniquely finished in brandy casks with sonic-enhancement, using a process dubbed BLACK NOISE™. Stay tuned for more details on the Dave Pickerell Distillery as the project moves forward.BLACKENED® Whiskey is born from Metallica’s spirit of innovation, steeped in science, and honed by seasoned experts. But more than anything, Dave was our good friend and we will miss him tremendously.” ![]() We learned so much from Dave in the all too brief time we had together. “He was not only a mentor and friend, we considered him a member of Metallica. “The Metallica family is stunned and in disbelief at the loss of our friend and partner, Dave Pickerell,” the band wrote in a release following his death. ![]() Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett calls it the band’s own “musical stamp.” Working with Berkeley-based Meyer Sound, Sweet Amber Distilling and Pickerell blasted Blackened’s whiskey barrels with low hertz sound waves of Metallica’s music. But, in sense, they’re in there, somewhere. Metallica’s name isn’t on Blackened’s bottle (although it’s named for one of their songs). Sweet Amber Distilling, a company billed as their collaboration, is helmed by CEO John Bilello, an industry veteran who spent 18 years with Seagram Company. “‘We want it to be a partnership deal, and we want it to be awesome. “They basically said, ‘We want to do a whiskey, but we don’t want it to be overly-branded ‘Metallica,’” Pickerell told Revolver magazine earlier this year. The band’s heavy drinking antics are well documented, but a thing of the past, according to interviews. Metallica - who are singer and guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, and bassist Robert Trujillo - approached Pickerell last year to commission their own whiskey. Once nicknamed the Johnny Appleseed of American whiskey, the distiller spent 14 years growing the Maker’s Mark brand and shaping craft distilleries including Vermont’s groundbreaking Whistlepig. Pickerell, 62, was touring with Metallica before his death. They’ll call it the Dave Pickerell Distillery, a representative for the brand confirms. And despite Pickerell’s sudden passing from hypertensive heart failure, the company they created, Sweet Amber Distilling Co., will soldier on, opening a distillery in the Bay Area sometime next year. That blend of bourbons, ryes, and whiskeys - selected by Pickerell and blasted with Metallica’s music while it aged in barrels - is being released in Bay Area markets today. Before he died last month while attending a whiskey festival in San Francisco, master distiller Dave Pickerell partnered with longtime SF-based rock band Metallica to create their own whiskey, called Blackened.
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