Tasting notes

nose

floral and perfumed with baking spice and orange oil from 100% San Luis Valley heirloom rye

palate

black tea, sweet mint, salted toffee, orange peel, and stewed fig

finish

radiant green-peppercorn spice that lingers clean

Mash bill

100% heirloom San Luis Valley rye — currently a 50% raw / 50% malted rye split with no barley. Grown at ~7,400 ft by the Cody family since the 1930s; low-yield semi-wild character is the entire mash thesis. (Older Laws rye stocks sometimes used 95% rye / 5% barley — current flagship small batch is the 100% rye recipe.)

Why it's craft

Denver independent grain-to-glass; terroir-driven heirloom rye program.