The release uses a mashbill centered on mesquite-smoked malted barley and was aged for more than six years before bottling.

Distilled from a mashbill of 99% corn and 1% malted barley, the whiskey spent more than 17 years in used cooperage before a brief secondary maturation in an ex-bourbon barrel.

A new generation of talented U.S. distillers are foregoing bourbon in favor of interesting new expressions. When you think of American whiskey, bourbon likely springs to mind. It’s the quintessential ...