Chattanooga Batch Alpha-1: Intergalactic Comet Crusher

Brian Beyke

Brian Beyke

June 22, 2026

One of our favorite and most fun experimental releases from Chattanooga is back! Infused with at least 42 botanicals, Chattanooga describes Batch Alpha as “like having your brains smashed out by a bag of lemons dipped in 42 karat gold.”

 

In the summer of 2015, a craft of unknown origin crash-landed on the roof of the Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery. Among the wreckage: a malfunctioning android, blueprints for an intergalactic highway straight through Earth, and a glowing green bottle labeled:

 

“Intergalactic Comet Crusher”

 

Unable to resist, the distillers took one sip and unanimously agreed it was the best drink in existence. After 10 years of top-secret reverse engineering, and some light time travel, they officially declassified and disclosed this extraordinary spirit to the universe... but then things got complicated.

 

Intergalactic Comet Crusher practically saved the world a year ago for it's first release, but nobody even cared. Instead of throwing a parade, everyone demanded full-frontal recipe disclosure with no redactions.

 

To distract from the cover-up, the distillers escaped aboard their UFO and went back to the future to make another batch of Comet Crusher. Unfortunately, [REDACTED] forgot the original recipe in their other pants, cross-contaminating the timeline and nearly destroying the universe.

 

Don’t panic. Everything’s pretty much fine now.

 

As an apology for the mess, Chattanooga Whiskey returns with a time-altered sequel to Intergalactic Comet Crusher. Dense, citrus-packed, wildly botanical, and every bit as strange as its origin story, this is Chattanooga at its most experimental, absurd, and delicious. We also still have a handful Chattanooga's Anniversary Blending Kits and Batch 048 Strawberry Gin Infused Liqueur.

 

What happens when you start prepping a bulk jug of lemonade powder, cane sugar, and freshly squeezed lemons, but forget to add water? You get Intergalactic Comet Crusher.

 

Dense and creamy, this one has plenty of citrus oils, with a heavy vanilla sweetness to boot.

 

The palate is expansive, layered with citrus, spice, sweetness, and back again. Lemon is forward on the palate, but there’s so much more going on than that, all carried by a plump, rounded mouthfeel.

 

The finish is surprisingly long, dancing with citrus and spice.