Special Event: A Bespoke Blended Bourbon & Boucherie Dinner

With Highline Spirits and a single-barrel bourbon!

Calling all bourbon lovers. The Roadhouse has a surprise for you. They have secretly been working with the acclaimed Highline Spirits in Dexter to create something very special—a single-barrel bourbon blended just for the Roadhouse. They are releasing it at an exclusive boucherie-style dinner on Tuesday, October 15th, and they would love for you to be the first to taste it!

Highline Spirits believes that just as each of us is a blending of our accumulated unique experiences, great whiskeys can come from the blending of great unique ingredients. The founder and our guest of honor for this dinner, Christi Lower, seeks to find art and inspiration in all her blends, and is blazing a trail with her new line of regional spirits, blended and finished in Dexter, Michigan, where she grew up. We’re proud to work with Christi in the formulation of an exclusive, limited release blend for our bourbon-loving friends of the Roadhouse, and cannot think of a more appropriate occasion to release the barrel than at a dinner showcasing the best of Highline.

Everyone attending the dinner will get to savor a taste of our new bourbon! We will offer additional pours for purchase, and an optional flight from Highline Spirits to be enjoyed alongside a very special menu Chef Bob has created for this occasion. He is cooking up mouthwatering dishes featuring our new heritage Red Wattle pork from Bailey Terra Nova Farms in homage to la boucherie, a Louisiana tradition in which people come together to celebrate the life of the pig. The Red Wattle hogs that are raised at Bailey Terra Nova are done so humanely, sustainably, and with the utmost care. Chef Bob has designed each course to respectfully honor these animals, and we have mindfully selected only the best Highline whiskeys to properly salute them.

Please join for this incredible, one-of-a-kind evening as we celebrate the tradition of really good food, finely crafted bourbon, and our amazing community of artisans, farmers, and friends! Here’s to all of you!

MENU
Vegetarian options available upon request

APPETIZERS
House-Made Pork Rinds
With sorghum syrup.
Pimento Cheese Balls
Pork Pâté
With chicken-fried onions

SOUP
Pork Jowl & Hominy

FAMILY-STYLE ENTRÉE
Boudin & Red Beans
House-Cured Pancetta & Gnocchi
With local greens
Smoked & Sliced Pork Loin
With bacon jam
Carolina Gold Rice (V)
Roasted Carrots & Lardo

DESSERT
Buttermilk Panna Cotta
With bourbon-soaked Michigan cherries

HIGHLINE SPIRITS FLIGHT
Straight Whiskey 100 proof
8 year straight Kentucky whiskey
Notes: Sweet caramel, vanilla with hints of barley and milk chocolate emerging on a smooth finish.

Triple Rye
97 proof
Three rye whiskies: 5, 5 ½, & 10 years old.
Notes: An exceptionally “clean” rye, very complex, not too grainy. vanilla, toffee, baking spice & stone fruit. Long, smooth finish of earthy pepper and milk chocolate.

Bourbon Whiskey
102 proof
A blend of 5, 6, & 8 year old straight bourbons.
Notes: Scents of caramel, butterscotch and oak precede vanilla, stone fruit and subtle rye. Long, satisfying finish of sweet caramel and baking spice.

America Whiskey
112 proof
A blend of 5, 6, & 8 year bourbons and a 7 year wheat whiskey finished in new American, Hungarian and French toasted oak.
Notes: Aroma of toasted bourbon. Wide, rich, creamy palate with layers of caramel, vanilla, hints of stone fruit, toasted walnut and spice. Long, complex silky finish.