- Proof
- 90
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- BourbonBourbon Whiskey
- MSRP
- $69.00~$75.88 street
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“Bourbon with a Scotch accent: a quarter of the mash is peated Scottish malt.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- caramel, baking spice, dark fruit and wood embers
- palate
- caramel under a layer of smoke, with barbecue rub, brisket and cinnamon
- finish
- long and ashy; campfire and barbecue smoke linger over the caramel as it dries
Mash bill
- Corn75%
- Peated malted barley25%
75% corn, 25% peated malted barley. The corn is organic, grown in New York's Finger Lakes by Lakeview Organic; the barley is Chariot malt from Thomas Fawcett, grown and kilned in Scotland over peat from the Aberdeen area to about 15 parts per million of phenols. The peated malt brings the smoke, while the corn and new charred oak bring the caramel and baking spice of the bourbon underneath.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
- Best served
- neat alongside barbecue, or in a Brooklyn Penicillin
Awards
- Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2025
- Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2022
Why it's craft
Kings County, founded in 2010 by Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, is New York City's oldest whiskey distillery and has never sold whiskey made anywhere else: it mashes, ferments, distills and ages everything at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on copper pot stills. This bourbon borrows from Scotch, with Scottish peated malt making up a quarter of a mash built on New York organic corn. The distillery remains independent and sold its one-millionth bottle in 2026.
Kings County Distillery
Independent · Est. 2010 · Tours