Everybody’s stepping into the only malt recreation now that the official TTB guidelines have been proposed — Jesus, even Jack Daniel’s has a single malt — so it’s solely pure that Yellowstone would drop one in the end. Like most of Yellowstone’s manufacturing, this one’s additionally sourced — this one from Indiana, which is proof that MGP makes freakin’ all the things.
It’s obtained no age assertion however the firm says it’s 4 years outdated. No data on the barrel program is included, however it’s secure to imagine this was aged in new oak barrels, not used.
Positive sufficient, this has all of the hallmarks of recent cask growing old, kicking off with an intense notice of tobacco on the nostril, paired with a thick layer of barrel char and some grinds of recent black pepper. Tarry however in need of creosote-laden, it’s a departure from a world the place single malts are offering a lighter, brisker expertise, as an alternative retreating to its explicit foxhole, shoveling out the dust.
The tobacco notice endures. The palate is nearer to inexperienced tobacco than dried, nonetheless recent with some turned earth notes and notes of roasted greens. Effectively-roasted cereal — so much darker than your typical single malt — fills within the gaps, fairly chewy and wealthy with caramel, virtually burnt. Some brooding fruit — flamed banana, baked apples — come into focus finally, however they wrestle towards a backdrop of barrel char and torched barley. A barely honeyed notice sweetens up the end, however solely reasonably. Touches of floor espresso and ashy barrel char are what resonate for the lengthy haul. There’s loads of appeal to go round, although it reveals in matches and spurts. As with most American single malts, it’s a whiskey that might clearly profit from spending its time in refill barrels relatively than new.
108 proof.
B / $55 / limestonebranch.com
Yellowstone American Single Malt
$55
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