Quick Profile
- Proof
- 94 Proof (47% ABV)
- ABV
- 47%
- Age
- NAS
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Elijah Craig Rye
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice, Grain & Cereal, and Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, cereal / grainy, honey, and mint.
"Kentucky-style" sweet rye; stone fruit, honeyed grain, spearmint, clover, and gentle cracked pepper.
What Defines This Bottle
Age
This bottle carries no single stated age. Federal labeling rules only require an age statement when a whiskey is younger than 4 years, so a bottle without one may be genuinely young or simply old enough that stating it became optional.
Does No Age Statement Mean It's Young? →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
Elijah Craig Rye: 51% Rye, 35% Corn, 14% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Heaven Hill Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (Char #3 standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Dozens of multi-story, open-air wooden rickhouses located across Nelson and Jefferson counties.
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