Sq. 6 is a brand new model from Heaven Hill, produced at its new artisanal distillery on Louisville’s Foremost Avenue. Some background:
Sq. 6 designates the unique plot of land the place Evan Williams constructed Kentucky’s first industrial distillery in 1783, sharing the identical block on Louisville’s Whiskey Row the place the Evan Williams Bourbon Expertise first opened in 2013. This preliminary launch from the one barrel per day, hand-crafted, copper pot nonetheless facility is a testomony to Heaven Hill Distillery’s dedication to high quality, craft and persistence. Sq. 6 is simply the start in a collection of craft merchandise to return from the Evan Williams Bourbon Expertise.
At current, simply two expressions are being produced right here, on the dazzling fee of 1 barrel per day. Let’s see how these whiskeys, each Kentucky classics, shake out.
Each are 95 proof.
Sq. 6 Excessive-Rye Bourbon – Created from a mash of 52% corn, 35% rye, and 13% malted barley, which is a brand new bourbon recipe for Heaven Hill (and certainly fairly excessive in rye). It hits the nostril as surprisingly tender, leaning extra closely on the corn than the rye, with notes of peanut butter and butterscotch within the combine, touched with black pepper. The palate sees fairly a bit extra of the oomph of the rye, providing a grassy high quality that pairs moderately effectively with the nutty, gently spicy notes on the tongue. Whereas this was reportedly aged for 8 years(!), it nonetheless comes throughout as fairly youthful, with plenty of uncooked cereal across the edges that feels underdeveloped. Much more peanut butter on the end… can’t escape it… with some honey-laced sweetness. All advised, it really works greatest as a mixer, although maybe not at this value. B / $90
Sq. 6 Excessive-Rye Rye – How does one make a Excessive-Rye Rye? That’s a query for an additional day, because the recipe right here is 63% rye, 24% corn, and 13% malted barley — nothing excessive in a world the place 95% rye is commonplace. (That mentioned, Heaven Hill’s normal rye is 51% rye, so by comparability, we get it.) No age assertion on this one. Placing formalities apart, when poured right into a glass, the herbal-grassy rye hits you straight away providing pungent aromas of flippantly toasted grains, rosemary, and sage. The palate enhances this with notes of dill and a grind of peanut, flippantly buttery in order to evoke toasted bread. Notes of bergamot and tea leaf emerge very late within the recreation, lifting the end and spinning it in a barely new route that’s actually participating. I used to be shocked to get pleasure from this as a lot as I did — it’s clearly extra attention-grabbing than the bourbon — although, once more, the value appears wildly outsized for what’s within the bottle. B+ / $90
Sq. 6 Excessive-Rye Rye
$90
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