Tasting notes

nose

Blackberry jam, caramel and vanilla bean

palate

Fresh blackberry sweetness with creamy vanilla and a trace of toasted oak

finish

Sweet blackberry with warm caramel and oak

Mash bill

Corn, rye, malted barley and wheat in the base whiskey, which the distillery makes on its own copper pot stills from grain the Huber family grows on its farm. The producer does not publish a recipe for this bottle. The whiskey ages in used Starlight whiskey barrels before it is flavored.

Why it's craft

The base is whiskey Starlight distills on copper pot stills and ages in its own used barrels, and the blackberries are blended in rather than a flavoring being added after the fact. The distillery sits on the Huber family farm, which has grown grain in Starlight, Indiana, since Simon Huber settled there in 1843. It is flavored whiskey, and the label says so.