As 2024 attracts to a detailed, American whiskey producers are showcasing innovation by means of distinctive partnerships, experimental methods, and the revival of fan favorites.
In new American whiskey releases, Chattanooga revisits an icon and Log Nonetheless collaborates with the Archdiocese of Louisville. Hidden Barn provides to the Sequence One line, and Wheel Horse unveils a 5 Yr Outdated.
Log Nonetheless Faithfully Crafted: The Trinity Mix Bourbon
Log Nonetheless Distillery has unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration with the Archdiocese of Louisville: Faithfully Crafted: The Trinity Mix Bourbon. This distinctive launch marks the inaugural manufacturing run on Log Nonetheless’s new bottling line. Any more, bottling might be accomplished on-site, starting with this new collaboration.
“This partnership is a celebration of Kentucky’s wealthy bourbon historical past, mixing the time-honored traditions of distilling with the values of religion, household, and connection,” stated Wally Dant, Founder and President of Log Nonetheless Distillery. “We’re honored to work alongside the Archdiocese of Louisville to create one thing actually particular.”
The bourbon combines three distinct barrel mash payments, delivering a layered tasting expertise of butterscotch heat, cinnamon, and clove depth, and a lingering end of smoky spiced oak.
Out there solely at Log Nonetheless Distillery and Monks Highway Boiler Home in Louisville, a portion of proceeds helps Archdiocese neighborhood initiatives.
Hidden Barn Sequence One Sluggish Fade
Hidden Barn continues its craft whiskey journey with Sluggish Fade, the tenth launch in its Sequence One line. Grasp Blender Jackie Zykan chosen five-to-six-year-old barrels from Neeley Household Distillery, that includes their signature 70% corn, 20% rye, and 10% malted barley mashbill.
The 106.5 proof bourbon showcases Neeley’s conventional manufacturing strategies, together with double pot distillation, wild-crafted Appalachian yeast, and open cypress fermentation tanks. “Very nicely balanced, with brown butter, black cherry, and a little bit of orange zest on the nostril,” notes Zykan. “Darkish cacao and hazelnut lead the palate and the mouthfeel is completely viscous. The sweetness gradual fades on the end, rounding out with balanced heat and clear longevity.”
Bottled with solely sediment filtration, Sluggish Fade retails for $79.99 and is offered on the distillery, on-line, and in choose retailers throughout Kentucky, Indiana, New York, California, Georgia, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Chattanooga Vault Sequence 2024
Chattanooga Whiskey‘s return to the Vault Sequence pays homage to one among their most distinctive experiments. The brand new launch options 4 single barrels impressed by their uncommon 2017 Batch 002: Smoked Excessive Malt, every showcasing totally different hardwood-smoked malted barley varieties.
“The unique Batch 002 has grow to be one thing of a cult favourite,” says Head Distiller Tiana Saul. “For the 2024 Vault Sequence, we’ve returned to that traditional recipe and brought it a step additional by highlighting a variety of various smoked malts, distilling them in our column nonetheless, and getting old each in a long-toasted and charred oak barrel.
“Whereas specialty recipes equivalent to these are normally reserved for bigger blended releases to create better depth, this 12 months’s Vault is a uncommon alternative to individually examine the nuances of a number of smoked malts, in an uncut single barrel context. Though every barrel has its personal distinctive persona, all function a delicate smokiness that asserts its presence with out dominating the profile.”
Every six-year-old barrel comprises roughly 18% smoked malted barley, with variations together with mesquite, apple wooden, and cherry wooden. Two barrels function mesquite-smoked malt, one makes use of apple wooden, and the fourth combines all three varieties. The whiskeys are bottled at barrel proof in 375ml bottles, out there solely on the Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery for $46.99.
Wheel Horse Double Oak 5-Yr Bourbon
Wheel Horse Whiskey has expanded its portfolio with Double Oak 5-Yr Bourbon, its first five-year-old expression. Restricted to 2,100 bottles, this launch showcases prolonged getting old by means of a double-barrel course of at Inexperienced River Distilling in Owensboro, Kentucky. The primary barrels had been Char 4, wherein the whiskey spent 4.5 years.
“Our objective when crafting Wheel Horse Double Oak was to enhance the underlying cherry notice of the whiskey with daring flavors of uncooked sugar and cocoa,” says Barrel Grasp Stephen Corrigan. “To attain this, we hand chosen new Char 1 barrels whose staves had gone by means of prolonged air seasoning. After somewhat greater than 6 months ending in these casks, the tip result’s complicated and balanced, and one thing that we will’t anticipate others to take pleasure in.”
The 101 proof, non-chill filtered bourbon affords aromas of chocolate-dipped toffee and pound cake, adopted by flavors of demerara sugar, vanilla custard, dried cherries, and cocoa. Out there nationally with an SRP of $34.99, it joins Wheel Horse’s seasonal lineup alongside their Cigar Mix, Rum-Completed Rye, and Toasted Barrel expressions.
