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Quick Profile
- Age
- Aged in new charred American oak; NAS
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice, Oak & Wood, and Grain & Cereal notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, cedar, cereal / grainy, and dried herbs.
Features roughly double the rye grain proportion of their flagship bourbon. Sweet cedar, candied citrus, herbal tea, and peppery finish.
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 →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? →Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak.
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