Casey Jones Wheated Bourbon
$97.99
The whisky staff at KWM recently had a chance to try this bottle when Cody from the distillery was travelling through Alberta. Like the rest of the Casey Jones lineup, this is very well put together and drinks superbly even in relative youth. The Wheated Bourbon is made from a four-grain mash bill that includes 26.5% Bloody Butcher Corn, 26.5% Yellow Dent Corn, 35% Wheat, and 12% Malted Barley. It is aged for at least three years and bottled at 55%.
Lucky Seven The Workhorse Bourbon
$94.99
This Kentucky Straight Bourbon from Lucky Seven is for those days when you are not interested in messing about with cask finishes and just want something good to drink at a respectable proof and price. Bottled at 48.5%.
Producer Description
"Just like a trusty steed this new addition will never let you down. Meant to be enjoyed as a daily sipper or with your favorite cocktail."
Lucky Seven The Frenchman Bourbon
$134.99
This Kentucky Straight Bourbon was sourced from an undisclosed distillery and finished in New French Oak barrels. It was blended by Ashley Barnes and bottled at 56.5%.
Mattie Gladden Bonded Bourbon
$100.99
While this whiskey was made in Indiana, Spirits Of French Lick isn't just another bottler of MGP products: they are a bona fide distillery that sources locally grown grains and distills and matures the whiskey themselves. That is almost a quaint notion in this day and age, isn't it?
The Mash Bill for The Mattie Gladden Bottled in Bond Bourbon is low corn and high rye: 55% Corn, 35% Rye, and 10% Victory Malt. The mash is fermented with two yeast strains and the focus is on putting the grain notes first and letting the fruit notes come along for the ride. After distillation, the resulting spirit is aged for at least four years before being bottled at 100 proof, or 50% ABV, as the Bottled in Bond act of 1897 states it must be.
Basil Hayden Red Wine Cask
$97.99
While not as robust and high alcohol as the Old Grand Dad Bottled in Bond, Basil Hayden is also distilled by Jim Beam and uses the same 63% Corn, 27% Rye, and 10% Malted Barley high-rye mashbill as OGD. The Red Wine Cask Finish is a limited release partially finished in California Red Wine Casks.
40%
Puncher`s Chance The Left Cross
$169.99
14-Year-Old Bourbon, you say? Finished in ex-rum casks, is it?
This curious release comes from Wolf Spirit of Eugene, Oregon. The Bourbon was sourced from Kentucky, according to the producer's website, but that might be an error. The mash bill is listed on Wolf Spirits's website as 84% Corn, 8% Malt, and 8% Rye, which lines up with the mash bill for George Dickel/Cascade Hollow Distillery - but that is in Tennessee... What is known is that the 14 Year Old Bourbon was finished for up to six months in casks that previously held 12-year-old Jamaican Rum. The result was then bottled at 48% ABV.
Kavalan Solist Ex-Bourbon 53.2%
$199.99
Kavalan is the belle of the ball no matter what it's wearing, but ex-Bourbon seems to be the most revealing. If you're looking to see what the DNA of this distillery really is, this is the best place to start. Everything else in the range is icing on the cake. This expression almost always has a staff pick sticker on it, as our entire team is smitten with Kavalan.
Only 164 bottles. A handful at KWM. These won't last long.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 53.2% abv.
Little Book Chapter 07
$209.99
Little Book Chapter VII - the 2023 Edition of the venerable Little Book Series - has arrived! This edition is a blend of Bourbon and American Whiskey that is up to 18 years of age and plays homage to all prior Little Book releases by using components from each of the previous six batches. 59.05% ABV, Unchillfiltred.
Here is what is in the bottle:
- 18-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- 17-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- 10-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
- 5-Year-Old Straight Malt Whisky finished in Applewood Smoked Barrels
- 4-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- 4-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
From The Producer
"Little Book® Chapter 7, “In Retrospect,” is the seventh chapter in the Little Book Whiskey series. “In Retrospect” offers any curious whiskey drinker a chance to explore where American Whiskey can go by looking back to where it’s been.
Now, with six chapters written, the seventh chapter of Little Book pushes the story ahead, building on what’s come before in ways not yet seen. Little Book Chapter 7 is a blend of seven different liquid streams, blending one liquid from each of the previous chapters, then adding a record seventh. “In Retrospect” is a nod to the past but also sets the course for what’s next.
"Hopefully over the course of this journey, we’ve intrigued somebody enough to try something Different”."
- Freddie Noe, 8th Generation Master Distiller, Fred B. Noe Distillery
Jack Daniel`s Single Barrel 62.5%
$87.99
Prepare yourself, for this is no shrinking violet. Jack Daniels Single Barrel at Barrel Proof weighs in at 129 proof. Made from 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. 62.5% ABV
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.
Producer Note: "Selected by our Master Distiller and presented at 125 proof, this high character single barrel Tennessee Whiskey reflects the flavor imparted by our handmade, toasted and charred, American Oak barrels. Bottled a barrel at a time, Barrel Strength lifts Jack’s trademark vanilla and toasted oak flavors to bold new levels for an aromatic and smooth whiskey experience, complemented by notes of sweet brown sugar that give way to hints of dark spice."