Castle & Key Restoration Rye Single Barrel
Quick Profile
- Age
- Aged 4–5+ Years
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey, Single Barrel
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Restoration Straight Rye Recipe
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice and Smoky & Earthy notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper and earth / mineral.
Uncut & non-chill filtered; oily texture, oolong tea, dense peppery spice, dark chocolate, stewed stone fruit, and mineral oak.
What Defines This Bottle
High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
Bottled at or near its barrel-entry strength, with no or minimal water added; concentrated flavor and higher perceived heat.
Bottled at, or close to, the proof it actually comes out of the barrel at -- little or no water added before bottling. That means more of the barrel's own character reaches the glass undiluted, at the cost of a proof that can run well past standard bottling strength. See Rickhouse Science for how barrel placement and time change what's actually in that barrel to begin with, and the Proof & Dilution Calculator for what cutting a barrel-proof pour down actually does to it.
Learn about High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey →Single Barrel
Whiskey drawn and bottled from one individual cask rather than mingled across many; a bottling method, not a mash bill or flavor profile of its own.
A bottling choice, not a production step upstream of it -- the whiskey ages and is distilled the same way as the distillery's other releases, then gets pulled from one specific barrel rather than blended with others before bottling. Bottle matches here come from a bottle's own name explicitly naming it a single barrel release, not an independent barrel-count field -- see this style's own Explore Bottles section for that caveat. See Rickhouse Science for how a barrel's own floor level and rick location can make one single barrel taste different from its neighbors.
Learn about Single Barrel →Mash Bill (Grain Bill) The recipe of raw grains milled and cooked for fermentation, defined by its dominant grain -- corn for bourbon, rye for rye whiskey. Learn more
Restoration Straight Rye Recipe: 63% Rye, 17% Yellow Corn, 20% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Castle & Key Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Water Source
- Natural limestone spring drawn directly from the historic subterranean Key Springhouse designed by E.H. Taylor, Jr.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (Char #3 and Char #4 from Independent Stave Company).
- Warehouse Notes
- Home to the world's longest active brick aging warehouse (534 feet long), accommodating over 35,000 barrels under a single roof.
Your Bottle
Log in to rate this bottle and keep a personal tasting note in My Bar.
Log In →Similar Bottles
Explore bottles with overlapping flavor, style, proof, and production characteristics.
-
Whiskey Thief Distilling Co.
Whiskey Thief Anniversary / Heritage Single BarrelsHigh-Proof / Barrel-Proof WhiskeySingle Barrel
- Shares Black Pepper notes.
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey and Single Barrel designations.
- Both lean toward Smoky & Earthy flavors.
-
Augusta Distillery
Buckner's 13 Year Single BarrelHigh-Proof / Barrel-Proof WhiskeySingle Barrel
- Shares Black Pepper notes.
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey and Single Barrel designations.
- Both lean toward Smoky & Earthy flavors.
-
Castle & Key Distillery
Castle & Key Restoration RyeHigh-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Shares Black Pepper notes.
- Uses the same disclosed mash bill: Restoration Straight Rye Recipe.
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey designation.
-
Old Forester Distilling Co.
Old Forester Single Barrel (100 Proof / Barrel Strength)High-Proof / Barrel-Proof WhiskeySingle Barrel
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey and Single Barrel designations.
- Both lean toward Spice and Smoky & Earthy flavors.
- Both come from the Kentucky region.
-
New Riff Distilling
New Riff Single Barrel BourbonHigh-Proof / Barrel-Proof WhiskeySingle Barrel
- Shares Black Pepper notes.
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey and Single Barrel designations.
- Both come from the Kentucky region.
-
New Riff Distilling
New Riff Single Barrel RyeHigh-Proof / Barrel-Proof WhiskeySingle Barrel
- Both carry the High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey and Single Barrel designations.
- Both lean toward Spice and Smoky & Earthy flavors.
- Both come from the Kentucky region.
