Knob Creek Cask Strength Rye
$107.99
Like Knob Creek Bourbon, the Knob Creek Rye is distilled at Jim Beam distillery which is located in Clermont, Kentucky. As a Kentucky Straight Rye, the mash bill has to consist of at least 51% Rye grain and be primarily aged in Virgin Oak barrels for at least four years, unless a lesser age is stated on the bottle. Bottled at 59.8%.
Stranahans Sherry Cask
$103.99
Stranahan’s Sherry Cask starts its life as 4 year old single malt whiskey aged in newly charred virgin oak barrels - the same as what is bottled as Stranahan’s Diamond Peak. What makes it different is that it is then finished in a combination of first fill and refill ex-Oloroso Sherry Casks before being hand-bottled at 47% ABV.
Made from 100% malted barley, this Single Malt Whiskey hails from Colorado. Well before the Craft Whiskey boom kicked off in the USA, Stranahan’s started distilling in 2004. It was Colorado’s first legal distillery founded since prohibition. In 2010 it was sold to Proximo Spirits of New Jersey.
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Select 47%
$72.01
This bottle was featured on Day 17 of our 2022 KWM Whisky Calendar
Also available in 50ml / Mini bottles
Jack Daniel’s typical mash bill of 80% Corn, 12% Rye, and 8% Malted Barley. The mash was distilled and then put through the Lincoln County Process before being put into heavily charred virgin oak barrels made at the distillery’s own cooperage. Single barrel releases from Jack Daniel’s are typically 4 to 7 years old. Each bottle of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel is carefully selected before being bottled at 47% ABV.
The JD Single Barrel was introduced to the world in 1997. It is bottled at 94 Proof, or 47% ABV. The barrels are selected from the higher floors of Rickhouses and the aim is for all selected casks to have “subtle notes of caramel and spice with bright fruit notes and sweet aromatics for a Tennessee Whiskey” according to the Jack Daniel’s website. Every single barrel has some differences stylistically, though, so every bottle of it you buy might be very on the nose and palate.
At its base level, the Lincoln County Process used to make Tennessee Whiskey means that the new make spirit or white dog/white lightning is filtered through sugar maple charcoal before being put into barrels to age. Jack Daniel’s has its own version of this, wherein the distillery burns sugar maple boards/ricks to a heavy char and then sprays them down with water to prevent complete combustion. After burning the new charcoal is ground into pellets and packed into vats through which the 70% ABV new make spirit filters through. The filtered spirit is cut to 62.5% ABV and put into heavily charred virgin oak barrels to age away.
Knob Creek Twice Barreled Rye
$61.99
Beam Suntory has been putting out quite a few special releases American Whiskey-wise recently, including the Knob Creek Twice Barreled Rye. Similar to the Jim Beam Double Oak - this Knob Creek was given a secondary maturation in heavily charred virgin oak barrels. Knob Creek itself is produced at the Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. Bottled at 50% ABV.
Maker`s Mark 375mL
$24.99
This Bourbon was featured on Day 8 of our 2020 KWM Whisky Calendar.
This is the 375ml bottle of Maker's Mark. 750ml bottles can be found here.
Made from a mash of corn, wheat and malted barley. Aged between 7 to 9 years in heavily charred virgin oak before being bottled at 45%.
Bull Run Straight Rye Whiskey
$91.99
Bottled by Bull Run Distillery of Portland, Oregon, the Carlton Straight Rye was bottled to celebrate the one year anniversary of their tasting room in Carlton, Oregon called the Bull Run Distillery Carlton Post. The distillery source is not specified on the bottle itself, but it is quite possibly MGP of Indian, which is known for its wonderful Rye recipes.
Legent Bourbon
$64.99
Legent (pronounced ‘lee-jent’) is comprised of three lots of Bourbon matured in different manners. A large portion is 5 year old Straight Bourbon. This was blended with Bourbon that was finished California red wine casks for one year and another batch of Bourbon finished in Sherry casks for two years. Legent is bottled at 47% ABV.
This new Bourbon from Beam Suntory was a collaboration between their American and Japanese arms of whisky making. Suntory’s master blender, Shinji Fukuyo, partnered with Jim Beam’s Master Distiller Fred Noe to create Legent, which underwent several years of development before the final product was released. Fred Noe’s part in everything was the distillation itself - as Master Distiller at Jim Beam. Shinji Fukuyo was in charge of the blending.
Kavalan Ex-Bourbon Oak 46%
$169.99
Think of this as a reduced strength version of the Solist Bourbon. One other key difference, this is bottled not as a single cask, but rather in batches. 46%.
Producer Description: “Kavalan ex-Bourbon Oak dilutes Solist ex-Bourbon with Kavalan spring water to 46% strength. It is incredibly smooth with a soft sweetness, losing the harshness and the alcohol edge and lingering over those unique flavours. It is clean and fresh tropical fruitiness with pleasant vanilla, coconut and spices.”
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Clean with fresh tropical fruitiness and pleasant vanilla, coconut and spices. Imagine being soothed by that comfortable sea breeze with a calming and refreshing effect. This malt can do that for you after a hectic day at the office.
Palate: Soft, well-balanced natural sweetness, vanilla and oak spices, round and complex with silky smoothness.
Redemption Bourbon
$59.99
Sourced from MGP (Midwest Grain Products) of Lawrenceburg, Indiana from a mash bill of 75% Corn, 21% Rye and 4% Malted Barley. According to the company’s own website, the Redemption Bourbon is aged for an average of two and a half years and then bottled at Bardstown, Kentucky at 42% ABV.