New Riff Bottled In Bond Rye
$95.99
New Riff Distillery of Newport, Kentucky produces both Bourbon and Rye. This is there Bonded Rye, which is made from a mash of 100% Rye Grain (95% unmalted and 5% malted). Bottled at 50% ABV. As a Bonded Rye Whiskey, it has to adhere to the following rules as laid down in the Bottled In Bond Act of 1897:
- All whiskey in the bottle must be produced by one distillery and by one distiller over the course of one distillation season.
- The whiskey must be at least four years old.
- It must be bottled at least 100 proof / 50% ABV
- The whiskey must be aged in bonded warehouses under United States federal supervision.
- The label on the bottle has to state which distillery it comes from and also where it was bottled.
New Riff Balboa Rye
$149.99
We don't get much of this heirloom Rye Whiskey from New Riff, but we are glad to grab what we can! The special Bottled In Bond Balboa Rye is made from a mash containing 95% Rye with the very same name.
From The Producer
"In addition to our flagship New Riff Bourbon and Rye, our distilling team has stretched their creative muscles over the years, producing a number of what we call "specialty whiskeys". Balboa Rye is one of the first specialties we made. Our corn farmer Charles Fogg has been growing heirloom rye on his family's farm for many years. His chosen variety was Balboa rye, an heirloom grain which dates back to the 1940s as a rye variety popular in Indiana. He offered it to us and we distilled it into rye whiskey, probably the first time in decades that Balboa has been made into whiskey and quite surely the only example on the market today.
Now it has grown up in the barrel! Typical of heirloom rye, the Balboa grain is a little smaller than modern varieties, with a lower output per acre of planting -- but it's no less flavorful for that! Our Balboa Rye whiskey offers shimmering notes of spiced fruit unique from our flagship New Riff Rye."
Penelope Four Grain Bourbon
$76.99
Penelope's flagship bottle is this Four Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey, which contains Corn, Rye, Wheat and Malted Barley. It is bottled at 40%.
Penelope Bourbon Bottling Company resides in Frankfurt, Kentucky, though this Bourbon was originally distilled in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Hmm... Which Midwest Grain Distillery could this be a Product of? The fact that this whiskey is sourced is not a bad thing regardless - Penelope has quickly developed a reputation for being masterful blenders of the barrels they purchase, including with this Four Grain Bourbon. Indeed: the Indiana distillery this hails from doesn't actually have a four grain Bourbon Mash Bill. Instead, Penelope purposefully blends casks from two different mash bills together (one set containing rye in the mash and the other set using wheat as the secondary grain) to create this Four Grain Bourbon.
Penelope Barrel Strength Bourbon Batch 7
$105.99
Batch 7 of Penelope's Four Grain, Barrel Strength Bourbon is the first to hit Alberta. It is comprised of a mash bill containing 74% Corn, 16% Wheat, 7% Rye and 3% Malted Barley and the barrels of whiskey used to blend this batch were between 3.5 to 5 years in age.
Penelope Bourbon Bottling Company resides in Frankfurt, Kentucky, though this Bourbon was originally distilled in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Hmm... Which Midwest Grain Distillery could this be a Product of? The fact that this whiskey is sourced is not a bad thing regardless - Penelope has quickly developed a reputation for being masterful blenders of the barrels they purchase, including with this Four Grain Bourbon. Indeed: the Indiana distillery this hails from doesn't actually have a four grain Bourbon Mash Bill. Instead, Penelope purposefully blends casks from two different mash bills together (one set containing rye in the mash and the other set using wheat as the secondary grain) to create this Four Grain Bourbon.
Baller Single Malt Whiskey
$107.99
No, this is not Japanese Whisky, but then again a lot of "Japanese Whisky" is not actually Japanese...
Distilled and produced by St George Spirits of California, The Baller Single Malt Whiskey is an homage to the Japanese style. The whiskey is finished in casks that previously held Umeshu/Plum Liqueur that was also made at St. George Spirits. Bottled at 47%.
About The Label
"Distiller Lance Winters did the art direction for the label, which re-imagines the legend of St. George as a samurai. The original watercolor on the front label was by Oakland artist Sylvia Solochek Walters, done to emulate woodcut. The calligraphy was done by Eri Takase of Takase Studios."
Barrell Craft Stellum Bourbon
$102.99
Barrell Craft Spirits have decided to create a less limited Rye and Bourbon under the name Stellum. The Bourbon is bottled at a very respectable 57.49% and is a blend of Bourbon casks sourced from distilleries in Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. The barrels of whiskey used to create the Stellum Bourbon are purported to be between 4 to 16 Years old.
Barrell Craft Spirits is an independent bottler and do not have their own distillery, but they have made quite the name for itself by releasing some great Bourbon, Rye, and American Whiskey over the past few years.
Still Austin Cask Strength Bourbon
$109.99
This whisky was featured on Day 18 of our 2024 KWM Not An Advent Calendar Tastings! You can read more about the whisky here.
The Musician is a Bourbon made by Still Austin Whiskey Co from a mash of 100% Texas-grown grain. The exact mash bill for The Musician Bourbon is 70% White Corn, 25% Rye, and 5% Malted Barley. The whiskey was matured as is typical, using heavily charred virgin oak casks.
This is the cask strength version of the regular Still Austin Texas Bourbon, aged for at least two years. It is bottled at 58% ABV.
Still Austin Distillery resides in Austin, Texas, and was founded in 2015. What sets Still Austin apart from other craft distilleries is its 42-foot tall column still dubbed Nancy, which was crafted by Forsyth's of Scotland.
2Bar Bourbon Wine Finish
$71.99
2Bar's Wine Barrel finished Bourbon is finished in wine casks sourced from wineries local to Washington. It is bottled at 45%.
Nathan Kaiser chose to work with grain in a slightly different manner than the rest of his family when he opened the 2Bar Spirits Distillery in Seattle, Washington in 2012. 2Bar created the first entirely locally-made Bourbon in the city and to this day the distillery focuses on using Washington grain and doing everything in-house - from milling and mashing to distilling, ageing and bottling. The 2Bar name is more than just spirits and whiskey - The 2Bar ranch was founded over a century back in Texas. The name has been in the hands of the Kaiser family of ranchers for five generations now.
Woodford Reserve Wheat Whiskey
$49.99
Wheat is a less common grain to see take centre stage in American Whiskies, though it happily plays an amazing second fiddle in Bourbon such as Maker's Mark, William Larue Weller, Pappy Van Winkle, and more. There are some solid Wheat Whiskeys out there if you look though, such as Bernheim from Heaven Hill and Dry Fly out of Washington State. Joining that duo is this Wheat Whiskey from Woodford Reserve and parent company Brown-Forman.
Made from a mash bill of 52% Wheat, 20% malt, 20% Corn, and 8% Rye. Bottled at 45.2%.