Tasting notes

nose

toffee and dulce de leche with kettle corn, praline and honey, plus a buttery waffle-cone note

palate

shortbread and honey, then crème brûlée custard, apricot and a popcorn-ball sweetness

finish

graham cracker and malted milk with white pepper, apple and a brown-sugar glaze, drying to light oak

Mash bill

50% malted barley, 50% unmalted barley. It is Talnua's single pot still recipe, the Irish style that puts raw barley in the mash beside malted barley, and it is triple distilled in copper pot stills.

Why it's craft

Olde Saint's Keep is Talnua's annual special release, timed to St. Patrick's Day, and the 2026 edition honors Colorado's distilling community: after at least three years in Char #2 American oak, the whiskey was finished in casks from six other Colorado distilleries, among them Laws Whiskey House, Spirit Hound and Storm King. Talnua mashes, ferments and triple distills its own raw-and-malted-barley single pot still whiskey on copper pot stills in Arvada. The 2026 run was 1,200 bottles.