WhistlePig Whiskey goes the bottled-in-bond route, and slightly past, as their new craft whiskey is bottled at 100.1 proof, a dab past the usual.
The Vermont distiller not too long ago launched FarmStock Past Bonded Rye and FarmStock Past Bonded Bourbon.
WhistlePig’s whiskey is regionally sourced, distilled and proofed with the farm’s nicely water, and aged in sustainably-harvested Vermont oak. The brand new FarmStock Past Bonded Single Barrel Rye and Bourbon are restricted, nevertheless, with simply 47 barrels of inventory.
WhistlePig Past Bonded whiskeys (picture by way of WhistlePig)
And every of these barrels is a novel expression of the WhistlePig farm, differing in grain recipe, soil chemistry and fermentation days.
The brand new Past Bonded is 100-percent WhistlePig farm-to-bottle whiskey with an inaugural crop from two new fields, and 15 of the barrels are aged for greater than 5 years.
WhistlePig shoppers will have the ability to hint the grain-to-glass story of a Past Bonded bottle, seeing 30 info about every barrel obtainable by means of a QR code on the bottles, with data on farm area, soil chemistry, nonetheless and distillation power, warehouse location, and bottling workforce.
Along with laying down rye whiskey, that is WhistlePig’s refined enlargement into the world of bourbon, with 12 FarmStock Past Bonded Bourbon barrels for 2022.
An announcement from the distiller notes that every spring, WhistlePig will launch a restricted variety of FarmStock Past Bonded barrels.
This yr’s WhistlePig Farmstock Past Bonded consists of two kinds of whiskey, FarmStock Past Bonded Rye comprised of 100% Remington Rye, and FarmStock Past Bonded Bourbon comprised of a excessive rye bourbon mash of 51% Dent corn, 49% Remington and Rifle Rye.
Each single FarmStock Past Bonded barrel on this yr’s launch is aged in Vermont property oak for at the least 4 years, and as much as 5 years, two months, two weeks and two days.
The brand new FarmStock Past Bonded Rye and Bourbon can be found for buy at choose retailers in AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, MO, NJ, NV, NY, SC, TN, TX, WA, WI and VT for $99.99 per 750ml bottle.
