- Proof
- 111.7
- Age
- 7 yr
- Style
- MaltKentucky Single Malt Whiskey
- MSRP
- $69.99~$67.95 street
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“Sour-mash Kentucky single malt: six brewing mashbills, five casks, cask strength.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- Sherried oak and toast, malty fruit grain, dark fruit, cacao nibs, orange-lemon, and smoke
- palate
- Chewy Oloroso and PX oak, citrus peel, chocolate-covered cherry, cocoa, grassy malt, and strawberry-mango leather
- finish
- Raspberry, tangerine rind, bergamot, sherry oak, orange marmalade, and peat smoke
Mash bill
- Malted barley100%
100% malted barley in six mashbills: 11.7% Marris Otter, 14.1% Golden Promise, 27.7% barleywine-style (two-row, toasted crystal, a touch of roasted chocolate malt), 16.5% Belgian quadrupel-style with Special B and CaraBelge, 18% Scottish peated malted barley, and 12% Chevallier, an 1800s British heirloom. Sour mash is the fermentation, not a separate style.
- Cask
- New charred oak, used bourbon, de-charred toasted oak, Oloroso, and Pedro Ximenez
- Finish
- Five-cask vatting: new charred oak, used bourbon barrels, used de-charred and toasted oak, Spanish Oloroso sherry, and Pedro Ximenez sherry.
- Best served
- water
Why it's craft
Distilled at New Riff from 100% malted barley on a copper column still and doubler, with a published six-mashbill brewing malt program and a five-cask vatting.
New Riff Distilling
Independent · Est. 2014 · Tours