Tasting notes

nose

Golden honey and dark molasses lead, with golden raisin, candied orange peel and crisp green apple over warm baking spice, toasted oak and a hint of vanilla

palate

Honey-candy sweetness coats the mouth, with cinnamon, mature oak and gentle spice, drifting toward a red fruit-punch note as it opens

finish

Short, starting on a light cereal note before candied pineapple and cinnamon candy take over, fading warm and sweet

Mash bill

Corn, rye and barley; the overall split is not published. The house share is bourbon distilled at Breckenridge from a high-rye mash of 56% corn, 38% rye and 6% barley, blended with high-rye bourbons from undisclosed distilleries outside Colorado. Those bourbons spent five to six years in oak before the honey went in.

Why it's craft

The honey comes from one named source, raw Goldswarm honey from Nigeria's Montane Forest region, added at up to a pound per gallon and left with the whiskey for about five days. The bourbon underneath averages over five years old. It mixes bourbon distilled in Breckenridge with high-rye bourbons bought from undisclosed distilleries outside Colorado.