Behold: The might of GWAR is now alcoholic.
Ragnarök Rye is fire and it is whiskey. It is blood magic. It is overproof rye with the terrifying flavors of... delicate sugar maple? And cherrywood?
Yes, GWAR has a whiskey now. On May 28, the charred-wood taste of the Richmond metal band will be released to the world in rye whiskey form, delivered unto the all-powerful masters of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission by Virginia’s Catoctin Creek Distilling. It’ll likely sell out the day it’s released.
Depending on who you listen to, GWAR might be an ever-changing and costumed menagerie of theatrical shock rockers who’ve been based in Virginia since the ‘80s — internationally known axe grinders who call themselves names like Pustulus Maximus and Balsac The Jaws of Death. The band’s famously gory shows involve shoving fans into fake meat grinders and spraying enough corn syrup “blood” to paint a barn.
But if you believe the press materials released by both the band and Catoctin Creek, GWAR is instead a group of alien comet-riding instigators of Viking Armageddon. They are warriors who spilled their blood into an ancient caldera — blood they harvested from its smoldering surface to use as sacramental firewater before a battle.
This ancient blood of gods was distilled and aged in barrels that GWAR then “hurled into the orbit of the moon.” The Ragnarök Rye then “spun under the influence of the deathly coldness of space and the life-giving heat of the sun.”
Ragnarök Rye is fire and it is whiskey. It is blood magic. It is overproof rye with the terrifying flavors of... delicate sugar maple? And cherrywood?
Yes, GWAR has a whiskey now. On May 28, the charred-wood taste of the Richmond metal band will be released to the world in rye whiskey form, delivered unto the all-powerful masters of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission by Virginia’s Catoctin Creek Distilling. It’ll likely sell out the day it’s released.
Depending on who you listen to, GWAR might be an ever-changing and costumed menagerie of theatrical shock rockers who’ve been based in Virginia since the ‘80s — internationally known axe grinders who call themselves names like Pustulus Maximus and Balsac The Jaws of Death. The band’s famously gory shows involve shoving fans into fake meat grinders and spraying enough corn syrup “blood” to paint a barn.
But if you believe the press materials released by both the band and Catoctin Creek, GWAR is instead a group of alien comet-riding instigators of Viking Armageddon. They are warriors who spilled their blood into an ancient caldera — blood they harvested from its smoldering surface to use as sacramental firewater before a battle.
This ancient blood of gods was distilled and aged in barrels that GWAR then “hurled into the orbit of the moon.” The Ragnarök Rye then “spun under the influence of the deathly coldness of space and the life-giving heat of the sun.”
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