Middle West Spirits Cask Strength Straight Wheated Bourbon Michelone Reserve
- Grain to glass
- Core range
- Proof
- 122.2
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- BourbonStraight Wheated Bourbon Whiskey
- MSRP
- $69.99
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“Middle West's wheat-and-pumpernickel-rye bourbon left at full barrel strength.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- caramel, toffee and smoked butterscotch, with French toast, gingerbread and walnut
- palate
- leather, light oak and butterscotch with a wisp of smoke, then orange peel, demerara sugar, cherry, cinnamon and pepper
- finish
- long and spiced; char, cinnamon and buttercream, with maraschino cherry and a little smoke
Mash bill
Full grain split not published.
Non-GMO open-pollinated yellow corn, Ohio soft red winter wheat, dark pumpernickel rye and two-row barley; the proportions for this bottling are not published. Rye and wheat are rarely used together in bourbon because the two are hard to balance. Middle West says its dark pumpernickel rye brings a softer spice that sits alongside the wheat's baking-spice character without covering the caramel from the corn.
- Cask
- Toasted and charred new American white oak
Awards
- Platinum and Best in Show — TAG Global Spirit Awards 2024
- Century Award — Pr%f Awards 2024
Why it's craft
This is Middle West's Michelone Reserve bourbon at barrel strength, from a four-grain recipe that puts wheat and dark pumpernickel rye in the same mash. The distillery, founded in Columbus in 2008, distills, ages and bottles its whiskey there, using Ohio soft red winter wheat. Its barrels come from a cooperage in Jackson, Ohio, and are toasted as well as charred.
Middle West Spirits
Independent · Est. 2008 · Tours