Media professionals are more and more moving into the non-public whiskey launch biz, however this launch is among the most formidable we’ve seen thus far. Two podcasters — the Whiskey Ring Podcast and That is My Bourbon Podcast — collaborated on a single non-public barrel of Barrell Craft Spirits Rye which was completed in an Armagnac cask.
The ensuing whiskey (a typical Barrell mix of MGP and Canadian inventory) known as The Podcaster Yak Assault. We get it. We tried it. Ideas observe.
The nostril doesn’t let on a lot concerning the Armagnac casking; it is a daring, aggressive rye that’s bursting with historically grain-forward components, spicy, peppery, and wealthy with herbs. There may be nevertheless a butterscotch high quality that tempers the natural warmth with some sweetness, plus a gradual undertone of char.
Extra sweetness emerges on the palate, maybe the brandy cask displaying its face extra clearly. Nonetheless, the most important push ahead is biting, peppery rye grain, very bready at instances. With time in glass and maybe some water, extra curiosities come into focus — banana, nutmeg, and a few citrus peel, adopted by a bracing, sudden menthol word. The end is weighty however clear, providing a considerably rustic high quality that evokes each the western frontier alongside the hardscrabble funk that you could solely get with Armagnac.
120.14 proof.
B+ / $100 / whiskeyinmyweddingring.com
Barrell Rye Personal Launch from The Podcaster Yak Assault
$100
