Quick Profile
- Age
- 95/5 Rye finished in custom toasted barrels
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Indiana
- Mash Bill
- MGP Traditional 95/5 Rye
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Sweet & Dessert-Like, Spice, and Herbal notes. Specific descriptors include brown sugar, ginger, mint, and toasted oak.
Spicy and confectionary; spearmint, dark chocolate, brown sugar, candied ginger, and heavy toasted oak sweetness.
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 →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
MGP Traditional 95/5 Rye: 95% Rye, 5% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Penelope Bourbon -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Water Source
- Lawrenceburg local limestone aquifer water drawn from the Great Miami Aquifer basin.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (53-gallon barrels, Char #4 standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Distilled and matured at Ross & Squibb Distillery (MGP Ingredients) in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana; specific warehouse conditions are not detailed in source material.
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