By now all of you are
well aware of my proclivity
for all things Maryland.
I love our state.
I love my alma mater.
I love the Maryland flag.
I love anything to do with Maryland
fashion and of course I also love
our unofficial Spice Old Bay,
which is why we're in Frederick today.
Because this is a story that I have been
excited to tell you about for so long.
Come over here with me.
I'm gonna introduce you to Greg David.
He is the owner of George's Beverage Company.
We're here at Mcclintock Distillery in
Frederick because you have invented.
With partners and Old Bay Vodka,
so you're on your way to becoming
a gazillionaire.
No no, no tell me about how it came about.
It's just so awesome.
So
several years ago, the McCormick
team asked us to make obey vodka.
Now we have a relationship with
McCormick and obey because we
make obey bloody Mary mix.
They said, hey, how about an obey vodka?
And I was floored and I said wow,
this is this is a great idea
with Tyler Hagemeyer now who
is the cofounder of Mcclintock
Distillery here in Frederick?
When you first heard the idea
of Old Bay Vodka instantly,
what did you think?
Excitement coming growing up in Maryland?
As soon as you hear about the opportunity to
be a part of something like Old Bay vodka,
you get excited almost immediately.
It's not just OK.
I'm going to wake up one day I'm
going to pour some Old Bay into.
Into the VAX, and we're going
to have this old Bay vodka.
This took some time
in reality. Yeah, it took a lot of time.
I wish it was that simple.
I found everything that we were
looking for after talking to a lot
of distilleries in Maryland at
Mcclintock distilling in Frederick,
they're actually the only USDA certified
organic distillery in the state.
One of the few in the country.
Why don't we just get right
into it, OK? The packaging
here is awesome. It's 70 proof,
so it's 35% alcohol.
So we'd be in this room with the
Mcclintock team and our teams,
and we'd be zooming with the McCormick
and all day teams and they're scientists.
I mean the flavor solution scientists
at McCormick did this with us.
We went through a lot of back
and forth trying to find that
really particular flavor,
and I think a lot of people are
surprised that it's not too overpowering.
A lot of people feel like they're about to
almost get punched in the face by old days.
What's in their mind,
but they're really pleasantly
surprised to realize that it's more
of a of a subtle kind of taste.
This is a life.
I want to be a part of the Old Bay.
Scientists were here as as part of this.
Why don't we go ahead and sample it?
I am very excited to see what it takes.
Sure, sure, let's go over
here behind the bar.
A lot of people like Ohno obey vodka.
There's no way, and I say listen
before you judge it. Try it. It's
calling me. Cheers.
Extremely smooth, very smooth.
You know a lot of a lot of liquors.
Just have that bite where
you just make that face that
doesn't have that and you can.
You can definitely taste the
subtleness of the spice in it.
What does it mean to you as a Maryland
based distillery to now have this
marriage with an iconic Maryland brand
like McCormick and Old Bay, we're
super excited to be a part of it.
A lot of what they do fits into.
What we do with the Bay Restoration.
They're really passionate
about giving back to the Bay.
They give so much to Marylanders
Greg on behalf of everyone in Maryland in DC,
Virginia, across the East Coast.
I wanna say geez, what took so long.
But thank you so much for
bringing this to us to listen.
I want you to just take all my money.
We're going to just take all this
and we're going to take off. Thank
you, you're welcome. Thank you, Adam. First
of all, fantastic job on the
packaging and the marketing because
it looks like a really cool bottle.
It looks like something a Meyer would
wanna have in their room or house or on
their coffee table or something like that.
It's beautiful. My question,
was it worth just not sprinkling a little
bit of Old Bay on top of the Veda vodka?
As somebody that's sprinkled many
things into a lot of other things,
right? No great point and I
brought this question to them.
I said what's the difference
between what you're doing here and
just like opening the VAT and just
sprinkling Old Bay in it, right?
It has to do with how the
flavors come together,
and obviously you don't want to buy
a bottle of something that has all
sorts of stuff floating in it, right?
So what they actually had to do when
you talked about the flavor scientists?
Yeah, they had to take all of the
ingredients in Old Bay and liquefy them.
They basically created an old Bay,
extract a liquid version of Old Bay that
they pour into the distilling process
and that's how they mix it all up.
They went through 46 different
iterations of the recipe before
they finally settled on this one.
It went on sale.
In DC just this past Friday,
it's been on sale in Delaware and Maryland.
They're pitching Virginia's V ABC
stores right now as well,
too. That is impressive.
First of all, most of the
bottles I purchased does
have stuff floating OHS OK.
Perfect with it.
This liquefied old Bay.
Is this something you can get cuz
the possibilities are endless. With
that I knew the questions are
going to be asked about this.
No, this is not a marketable thing.
Perhaps that could come in the future
because I've been talking to people about
it and they said this just sounds fantastic.
This is great. Now I will tell you this.
A lot of people have been giving
me the reaction obey.
Vodka, uh, I posted about it on Facebook
and they sort of make that face.
Yeah, don't knock it until you try it.
It's very subtle. It's very.
I've started to sound like
a pitchman for this thing.
It's great though. I am.
I am 100% on board next stop
Old Bay Southeast Reggie kicks.
We're gonna make it happen.
Fuse them together.
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