On the shelf at Great American Craft SpiritsOpen and pouring · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
- Proof
- 90
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- Whiskey
- Street price
- $29.99
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“Moonshine recipe aged with toasted oak and maple — Wood Fired, not fruit-flavored”
Tasting notes
- nose
- toasted oak and sweet maple from Appalachian wood filtration
- palate
- corn-rye-barley moonshine recipe aged into red-amber whiskey with maple-wood sweetness
- finish
- warm wood spice that lingers on the palate
Mash bill
Full grain split not published.
Corn, rye, and barley malt — Tim Smith's original century-old moonshine recipe. Exact percentages unpublished; pot-still distillation for aromatic fresh-whiskey character before wood aging.
- Cask
- Toasted oak and maple wood filtration/aging
- Finish
- Oak and maple wood-fired aging/filtration
- Best served
- cocktail
Why it's craft
Appalachian pot-still whiskey from Discovery Channel moonshiner Tim Smith — distinctive oak/maple wood program.
Climax Moonshine / Tim Smith
Independent
Sources: timsmithspirits.com, cwspirits.com, abc2.nc.gov