Bluebird Distilling, a grain-to-glass operation in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, has been producing an enormous vary of spirits since its founding in 2014, however one way or the other we’ve by no means managed to overview any of their wares. Right this moment we lastly appropriate that with a take a look at Bluebird’s 4 Grain Bourbon, made with a mash of corn, rye, pink winter wheat, and barley. It’s aged in new oak barrels “for lower than 4 years,” per the again label.
Let’s give it a strive.
Craft whiskey aficionados will acknowledge lots of the hallmarks of the model, specifically plenty of wooden all through the expertise. A nostril heavy with smoky char leads the way in which to a daring cereal character, layered with notes of licorice and vanilla, although it’s all filtered by means of a haze of chimney soot. The palate is equally burly and initially aggressive, leaning closely on the barrel — that are certainly smaller in measurement than normal barrels, given the extraordinary affect one feels right here from the wooden. Fruit rushes in to the rescue, fortunately, brightening up the physique with notes of cherry and peach, plus a contact of candy toffee. A espresso word offers the end extra texture, although the load of wooden is rarely removed from sight. In actual fact, all that char weighs down the conclusion with heavy notes of clove and a dusky/grassy rye component, although a caramel-laced brightness does handle to endure considerably for the lengthy haul.
92 proof.
B / $50 / bluebirddistilling.com
Bluebird Distilling 4 Grain Bourbon
$50
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