News Bites: ISCO Releases Aquavit with a Winter Party / Castle Hill Inn Pop Up Supper Club / Little City Thrifty Vintage Market Returns / RI Brewers Guild at Home Show

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The Industrious Spirit Company Announces New Spirit: Aquavit, a Scandinavian Treat to Banish Winter Blues

Today, The Industrious Spirit Company (ISCO) introduced its latest Tasting Room solely spirit: Aquavit, a festive Scandinavian caraway spirit that’s positive to ward off any post-holiday winter blues. With half of the ISCO staff proudly being of Swedish descent they couldn’t wait to create a spirit that introduced that heritage to life. ISCO has produced two variations of the aquavit, an aged model and an unaged model. It joins their mainstay spirit line up of Ostreida Oyster Vodka, Structural Vodka, Ornamental Gin, Blue Velvet Bourbon, Patina Bourbon Barrel Aged Gin and Gemma Crystal Vodka. 

“Our staff is thrilled to deliver these two savory Aquavits to life,” mentioned Eric Olson, one in all ISCO’s Head Distillers “The actual take a look at was that my aunt authorized, and mentioned she would proudly move round in her publish because the Grand Lodge Deputy of Svea Lodge 362 of the Vasa Order of American Swedish Fraternal Organization Club.”  

To heat issues up ISCO will host a “Winter-Blues-Be-Gone Party!” on Thursday, January 25 beginning at 5pm. The celebration will function the chance to try to buy each Aquavits, whereas having fun with complementary nibbles from a particular caviar and bread bar, plus house-made pickles, tastes of a particular collaborative aquavit-cured gravlax created by the Fearless Fish Market, a plethora of conventional Swedish licorice and final however not least a cellular, wood-fired sauna supplied for friends heat and comfy, boozy lounging by AltaerSauna! The celebration will proceed all weekend, culminating on Sunday, January 28 with a Nordic Sweater Weather Party, that includes particular meals curated by Head Distiller Eric Olson!

ISCO’s unaged Aquavit provides off the aromas of earthy cumin and heat rye give strategy to refined candied lemon and caraway flavors adopted by a lush, verdant dill that lingers on the palate. While Aquavit could be (very) fortunately loved sipped straight, it’s pleasant in cocktails as nicely. Use it to spike your sizzling cider, strive it in a riff on a Collins instead of the gin or a Mule instead of the vodka. 

Its aged Aquavit has aromas of rye, caraway, vanilla and caramel adopted by cozy cumin and candied fennel on the palate. This Aquavit, like its unaged sibling, could be (very) fortunately sipped straight, however strive it additionally in an espresso martini, an quaint or a Negronis!

To create their aquavits, ISCO continues their genuine ardour for making spirits from scratch. A rye mash, made by fermenting a gorgeous natural corn alongside a little bit of malted rye, is distilled with caraway seed and a number of loaves of a custom-made closely seeded rye from an area family-run bakery. 

The unaged aquavit is then infused with native recent dill.  The aged model is left to relaxation for one yr in thrice-used barrels that first held ISCO’s Blue Velvet Blue Corn Bourbon, adopted by their Patina Barrel Aged Gin, and eventually by the Aquavit.

Castle Hill Inn Pop Up Supper Club Dining Series Returns

Castle Hill Inn’s famend culinary staff, led by Executive Chef Andy Taur, will probably be sharing a few of their favourite inspirations and passions to take friends on a singular culinary journey, highlighting totally different cuisines and areas from around the globe every week. This palatable culinary expertise is actually not like every other and shouldn’t be missed! 

The Pop Up Super Club collection kicks off in February and can run via late-March, that includes a brand new corresponding menu every week. The three-course prix fixe menus are $60 per particular person (plus tax and gratuity) and reservations are required to attend; these could be made on-line by way of OpenTable on the following hyperlink: https://www.opentable.com/r/events-at-castle-hill-inn-newport. 

The full schedule and menus observe under: 

Little City Thrifty, Rhode Island’s Largest Vintage Market, Returns to WaterFire Arts Center

March 2 & 3, 2024
Noon to 6pm (11am Early Buying Hour)
WaterFire Arts Center
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI

Little City Thrifty Vintage Market is without doubt one of the largest curated indoor classic and vintage procuring occasions in New England, bringing classic lovers from far and broad to Providence for the weekend. On March 2nd & third, 2024, Little City Thrifty could have an eclectic lineup of over 90 classic cubicles, with distributors from Rhode Island and eight different states (touring in from so far as Detroit!). With 15,000 sqft of pre-loved and size-inclusive clothes, house décor, vinyl records, books, barware, artwork, collectables, ephemera, jewellery and equipment, small furnishings, and far more accessible in any respect worth factors, Little City Thrifty is a real classic playground.

“We’re thrilled that Little City Thrifty has been so nicely acquired, and we’re excited to welcome a ton of recent and totally different sellers to our fifth classic market this March,” says co-founder of Little City Thrifty, BJ Mansuetti. “It means so much to us that thrifty, vintage-loving New Englanders have actually embraced our occasion since we began in 2022, and that help brings an enormous and far wanted raise to our small enterprise neighborhood after a tricky couple of years.”

Mansuetti’s spouse and enterprise companion in Little City Thrifty, Robin Dionne, provides, “As a longtime classic collector and vendor who is targeted on re-use and recycling, I like to see the neighborhood come collectively to offer classic objects a brand new life. Little City Thrifty is a enjoyable celebration, but in addition has a deeper that means for us, and this yr we’re working with Bootstrap Compost to assist divert occasion trash from the landfill. We’re excited to announce that Little City Thrifty is now a completely compostable occasion!”

The occasion will function meals from native favorites Diego’s East Side and JA Patty, a bar serving Rejects beer (Middletown, RI) and specialty cocktails and mocktails, and low from New Harvest Coffee Roasters. Entry features a drink ticket, that may be redeemed for a complimentary small drink, supplied by collaborating beverage sponsors, or a reduction on full-sized drinks. General Admission tickets are $8 upfront and could also be accessible for $10 on the door, if the occasion doesn’t promote out. “Early Buying Hour” tickets are additionally accessible however are very restricted. For $15, these tickets permit entry a full hour earlier than the occasion begins, and so they’re excellent for many who need some additional elbow-room whereas procuring and to get a primary take a look at the distributors’ collections and uncommon objects.

For a full checklist of distributors and to buy advance tickets, go to www.littlecitythrifty.com.

The 74^th Annual RI Home Show, Southern New England’s Largest Consumer Show, Set to Take Place April 4^th to the 7^th on the RI Convention Center

The RI Home Show will Add a Brand-New Experience, in Partnership with the Rhode Island Brewers Guild, Called House of Brews with Samplings from Local Breweries within the Guild

The RI Home Show is again for its 74^th yr and in celebration the present is including a brand-new expertise to the occasion, in partnership with the Rhode Island Brewers Guild, this yr will function the House of Brews. Attendees of the RI Home Show, happening on the Convention Center April 4^th to the 7^th, will get the prospect to take pleasure in complimentary samples of native beers from breweries throughout the Guild. This expertise marks one more method that the RI Home Show showcases an ever-growing native enterprise pattern in Southern New England.    

“After a protracted day within the yard or placing the ending touches on a particular venture, there’s nothing fairly like having fun with a craft beer at house, particularly when it’s Rhode Island made,” mentioned Nils Weldy, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Brewers Guild. “Pairing all kinds of expertly chosen craft beer tastings with a day on the Rhode Island Home Show is a mixture constructed for fulfillment. We are very appreciative of the chance prolonged by the RI Builders Association to deliver present attendees the House of Brews expertise on the 2024 Rhode Island Home Show,” continued Weldy. 

“The RI Home Show is a really various, regionally owned, and extremely promoted expertise,” added John Marcantonio Chief Executive Officer, RIBA.  “As we proceed to rework the 74-year-old present, with the “House of Brews,” we’re trying ahead to selling and rising the native craft beer business – I’m positive all of us agree, house enchancment, and a RI brewed beer…they go collectively!” 

“The RI Home Show is all the time an annual favourite on the Convention Center, and we’re very excited that they are going to be partnering with the Rhode Island Brewers Guild to make this occasion a much bigger and higher expertise for all who attend,” mentioned Lawrence Lepore, General Manager of the Rhode Island Convention Center. 

The largest house enchancment and thought present in Southern New England options 5 exhibits in a single — the eleventh Annual Energy Expo, the ten,000 sq ft Garden Experience, the Inspiration Showcase, the Specialty RI Flower Show and the brand-new House of Brews.  For the previous 74 years, The Rhode Island Home Show has been connecting 1000’s of certified householders to over 250 house enchancment exhibitors, consultants, services to enhance their house, backyard and outside residing areas. 

Tickets for the RI Home Show will go on sale in March.  The RI Home Show hours are as follows: Thursday 12 pm to 9 pm; Friday 12 pm to 9 pm; Saturday 10 am to 9 pm and Sunday 10 am to five pm. 

The Rhode Island Brewers Guild is the official brewery affiliation in Rhode Island, present to help and promote Rhode Island Craft Breweries. The RI Brewers Guild was established in 2013 with 5 founding breweries and brewpubs. As of at the moment, they’ve nearly 36 collaborating Rhode Island Breweries. For extra info on the Rhode Island Brewers Guild and how one can get your unique Rhode Island Brewery Passport, you may go to https://ribrewersguild.org/.  

For extra info, please go to www.ribahomeshow.com