- Proof
- 100
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- RyeBottled in Bond Straight Rye Whiskey
- Street price
- $54.99
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“Bonded rye softened by a fifth of corn, black cherry and pepper over sugar-cookie sweetness.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- Sugar cookie and spiced pear open up to black cherry, marzipan and a wisp of oak smoke
- palate
- Full and gently sweet, with caramel apple, vanilla and butter biscuit over spiced walnut and peppercorn
- finish
- Cracked pepper and bran muffin carry on, with black cherry fading into dry rye spice
Mash bill
- Rye70%
- Corn20%
- Malted barley10%
70% rye, 20% corn, 10% malted barley. That is FEW's straight rye recipe, in which a fifth of corn rounds off the rye's spice with some sweetness. The distillery buys its corn mainly from Indiana and its malted barley from Wisconsin, and under bonded rules the whole bottling comes from one distilling season.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
- Best served
- neat or in a Manhattan
Awards
- Gold — Beverage Testing Institute 2025
Why it's craft
FEW followed its bonded bourbon with this rye in 2022, made to the same 1897 rules: one distilling season, one distillery and at least four years in a bonded warehouse. The rye is mashed, fermented and distilled at the distillery's alley site in Evanston, which has made whiskey from grain since 2011. FEW became part of Heaven Hill in 2022 and still distills on site.
FEW Spirits
Corporate-owned · Est. 2011