Tasting notes

nose

malt-steeped tea and fresh pear with baking spice, a herbal note, light brine and cigar box

palate

brown sugar and caramel with crème brûlée and sweet cereal, threaded with soft smoke, mesquite, green tea, cedar and cola

finish

pie crust and sugar cookie with baking spice, the malted grain and cola lingering before fading to soft cereal

Mash bill

100% malted barley. The blend draws on American single malts from eleven distilleries: Andalusia, Balcones, Cedar Ridge, Copperworks, McCarthy's, Santa Fe Spirits, Triple Eight, Virginia Distillery Co., Westland, Westward and Whiskey Del Bac. McCarthy's single malt is made from peated Scottish barley, which accounts for the soft smoke in the blend.

Why it's craft

This vatting puts single malts from eleven American distilleries in one bottle, from Westland and Copperworks in Washington to Balcones and Andalusia in Texas and Triple Eight in Massachusetts. It builds on Lost Lantern's first American Vatted Malt from 2020, adding five distilleries to what was left of that blend. Lost Lantern, an independent bottler in Vermont, distills nothing itself and names the source of every component.