ARDMORE, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — The owner of Bluebird Distilling in Phoenixville is opening a new coffee cocktail bar in Ardmore next week.
Owner Jared Adkins said Char and Stave, a coffee and whiskey bar, will utilize some of Bluebird’s used bourbon barrels to age the coffees.
“When we age beans in a bourbon barrel, we take all those wonderful flavors of the whiskey — like the vanilla, the caramel, the toffee — and that gets infused right back into the beans,” he explained.
That’s also the reason for the establishment’s name.
“There are 17 staves that go around the barrel that actually make up the wood barrel itself, and on the inside of those staves, they are charred,” thus Char and Stave was born.
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The shop will have coffee, whiskey and virgin whiskey drinks with coffee substitutes.
“A Rittenhouse Manhattan, which is going to be our coffee variation on your classic Manhattan; a Cafe Negroni, which is going to be a Negroni with cold brew topped on top with extra foam,” he described.
Another special is a twist on the Philly favorite Citywide.
“If you go to a bar in the city and you say, ‘I want a Citywide,’ it’s generally a shot and a beer,” said Adkins. “Well here, it’s going to be a shot of bourbon barrel espresso and a 2-ounce pour of whiskey. So instead of a beer and shot, you have your coffee and your whiskey.”
The bar opens at 7 a.m. for coffee, and they can start adding alcohol by 9 a.m. It closes at midnight. Pastries will also be available.
And, thanks to their distillery license, Char and Stave can sell Bluebird products.
“Any of our products or whiskeys that we sell at the shop [in Phoenixville], now you can pick them up right here in Ardmore and have the full experience of Bluebird without having to go to Phoenixville.”
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