I’m feeling talkative today so let me illustrate for you one of the cooler parts of the past few weeks…
I was starting the bed time routine with my kids and got a notification on my phone that an email was in my inbox. I quickly glanced and saw that it was from a tasting competition. I get a lot of emails like this wanting us to submit to tasting competitions and I thought they were just sending a blanket email, so I went about reading books and tucking in…and re-tucking in and extra hugs and kisses, and a cry from dying of thirst (my kids try everything to get out of bedtime).
Finally the kids were out cold and I proceeded with MY night time routine of munching on the binge worthy snacks that I don’t want my kids sniping from me.
I put on my pj’s and plop on the couch and put my feet up. I do my normal social media duties of checking out facebook, popping on instagram, check out my snaps, and play around with some Wiggly photos taken earlier in the day. I’m about half a bag in on my cheese balls when I decide to get some emails out of the way. This particular one says…
“Dear Amanda,
The Fifty Best recently hosted an Aged Rum Tasting.
I am very happy to inform you that Wiggly Bridge Small Barrel Gold Rum was awarded a Gold medal.”
I stand up with cheese ball crumbs and pieces of a previously devoured chocolate bar falling everywhere and say to my husband David WE GOT GOLD! He says NO SHIT and I say NO SHIT and I immediately dive into the details of the results.
You see that’s the important part.
The details.
Who were we in comparison to? If we were up against a generic rum, it wouldn’t be something to hugely celebrate. What’s amazing about this is that we were rubbing shoulders (the bottle was) with 5 and 10 year rums made in the Caribbean and still took home gold!
I realize this is huge and I go to call my father-in-law. By this point it is 10pm. I go to call him about 3 times each time hesitating that I’m probably going to wake him, so I just forward him the email saying NO SHIT.
It takes about 10 minutes and I get an email back.. YES! he’s awake…and his response was probably the best email I will ever get from him and probably in general.
You see, Dave is very business minded. He’s really good at separating business from emotion and that’s what makes him good at what he does. What I personally find incredibly awesome about things he will respond with an “oh cool.” Then he’ll go about his way managing all he does and making more award winning hooch. I usually bring enough excitement for the both of us, so it works.
This email response though, was so unlike him, but SO SO real I will probably keep it forever. It’s all I could have ever hoped in a response to something like this.
I’ve cut and pasted his response and then deleted it probably 10 times to show here, but not sure he’d be thrilled. SO I’ll leave it up to your imagination to piece together what he wrote back. Let’s just say there were a lot of HOLY SHITS and OH MY GODS. If you’re really interested, let me know and I can read it to you (Don’t be mad Dave).
Some equally as exciting news is that we filled our first barrel of our New England Single Malt Whisky. It won’t be ready for a while, but boy will it be delicious. I get to be a part of making history with Wiggly Bridge Distillery and it’s awesome.
