Deerhammer American Single Malt Whiskey Port Cask Finish
- Grain to glass
- Core range
- Proof
- 100
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- MaltAmerican Single Malt Whiskey
- MSRP
- $68.00
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“The house four-malt single malt given two more years in tawny port casks.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- dark cherry and ripe plum with maple syrup, orange peel and coffee
- palate
- ripe plum and cinnamon over cedar, with cherry pipe tobacco
- finish
- full-bodied; grilled rhubarb and allspice, turning to leather and dark chocolate
Mash bill
- Two-row pale malt85%
- Chocolate malt5%
- C120 crystal malt5%
- C45 crystal malt5%
85% two-row pale malt, 5% chocolate malt, 5% C120 crystal malt, 5% C45 crystal malt. It is the same four-malt mash as Deerhammer's flagship single malt, made from barley grown and malted in Colorado's San Luis Valley. The distillery mills about 1,200 pounds of these malts for each mash and ferments it in open-top fermenters.
- Cask
- 53-gallon new white oak, heavy toast, #2 char
- Finish
- 60-gallon ex-tawny port casks, 2+ years
Why it's craft
This bottling takes Deerhammer's flagship single malt out of new oak after about four years and finishes it for two more in ex-tawny port casks, all in a rackhouse 8,000 feet up in Buena Vista, Colorado. Deerhammer mashes, ferments and double distills the whiskey itself on squat-head copper pot stills, from barley grown and malted in the San Luis Valley. Amy and Lenny Eckstein founded the distillery in 2010; it makes about one barrel a day and has no outside investors.
Deerhammer Distilling Company
Independent · Est. 2010