some incredible single barrel releases we picked afterwards. The same notes persist post-sip, but the barrel funk volume turns up slightly alongside those aromas. Slight barrel funk and coffee cake tones sting the nostrils slightly. Coming back from a sip amplifies the barrel funk characteristics that do suggest this is older than it Here's to hoping the Fortuna barrel proof releasing now will be a step up in quality!

While I can't host an extravagant 2023 BTAC tasting this year, I do have a full bottle of this years I opened it to raise as a toast after I tagged into a really nice 8 point, 180 pound buck in Massachusetts A toast to an amazing day in the woods When I'm not sharing, hunting or hiking, I do still write at length At last taste, I find underripe cherry, black pepper, and a grainy bite of milk chocolate. TL;DR: Not BT's finest work, but still a special bottle for raising a toast or talking over Rating:  

contains whiskey that has been matured for a full 12 year period in three oak cask types: American bourbon barrels The Malaga cask brings an exotic sweet note to the whiskey making it a truly delightful taste experience The empty glass smells of toasted oak, bourbon-level caramel, pecans and bread pudding.

Michter's has two lesser-known legacy brands they continue to put out releases for in Shenk's and Bomberger's Company on Label: Michter's Whiskey Type: Bourbon Mash Bill Percentages: Undisclosed Proof: 108° Age:

York grain, distilled to no more than 160 proof, and aged a minimum of two years in charred, new oak barrels I recently connected some errant dots—after sipping a single barrel pick of Kings County from Liquor The multiple award-winning Empire Rye Batch 7, released in 2023, is the last batch not to be barreled of our Empire Rye—our first with a three-year age statement—our annual releases will be bottled at barrel The finish brings in that wonderful barrel funk I love about Kings County, a damp oak sweeping in for

Special Reserve, Weller Antique 107, Weller Full Proof, Weller 12 Year, Weller C.Y.P.B. and Weller Single Barrel Undisclosed wheated mash bill Proof:  125.8° Age:  12 years and 6 months (a blend of 12-14 year old barrels yearly release letter: Nose:  Upon first lifting the glass to my nose, I find the rich, old, funky barrel The feeling is that of thick, rich quality, reminiscent of a bygone era of traditionally lower barrel The wheated mash bill feels a bit washed out in all the barrel influence from this 12-14 year old barrel

Further identification:   First aged in Cedar Ridge ex-bourbon barrels A few swirls release a beautiful barrel funk that reminds me of a distant memory of what dusty old single Another sip is a tip-toe down creaky wood stairs for a midnight snack of toasted bread and grape jam From learning the vast history of whiskey making to celebrating the passion of the industry, she tastes

Having gone to the distillery to pick a single barrel twice now, there was no time in which a wheated discussions with some of Willett's incredibly small team, I've gathered that a majority of the good barrels Coming back to the nose shows off subtle barrel funk and more caramel tones. Great barrel funk proliferates late in the glass. If the Barrell Craft Spirits motto rings "blended to never blend in," one might describe this release

2024 releases, but it also makes understanding which ones are worth the hunt even more complicated for barrel I have tasted them all side by side and now have three sober tastings under my belt for this particular profile here, as I am left with a mouthful of a synthetic tingle with little of the accompanying joy that barrel With a noticeably short for my typically verbose tasting prose, I have to call this one a dud.

The whiskey from these barrels, however, has changed quite a bit in those 22 years. water when it went into the new charred white American oak, it has slowly picked up depth of flavor and richer of Heaven Hill Heritage Collection features whiskey aged at the Heaven Hill rickhouse site, with 270 barrels After a taste, my nose is far more infatuated. At the final taste of my pour, my taste buds report back a blanket of flavor: vanilla woven with graham

Barrels were filled on December 29th, 2005, from a mash bill of 78% corn, 10% rye, and 12% malted barley Bernheim Distillery: the world’s largest independent, family-owned Bourbon distillery, producing 1,300 barrels continue raising the bar of bourbon with their limited edition offerings as more of their 10+ million barrels available now at an MSRP of $300 Nose: Upon lifting the well-rested glass to my nose, I find a distinct barrel this 17 year to be more in line with some of the vintage Heaven Hill releases (think old Elijah Craig barrel

Keep in mind this NY-1 batch may taste significantly different than another batch, given how small the barrel mixing lots are with this release. identification: This is the 2021 release of Release #7, Batch NY-1; this group of releases is comprised of 2-3 barrel Wow, fantastic toasted marshmallow builds now. Good barrel char to this, which is listed as a #4 char on the bottle label.