The Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey recipe was created by the Old Elk Distillery team and Greg Metze. “Old Elk Distillery is currently a production facility, with a vision to open a larger distillery and tasting room in Colorado. In Old Elk Distillery’s Words: Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Most bourbons come in at the 4-6% range making this a unique mashbill in the bourbon world where rye or wheat are typically the second highest grain in the mashbill. This whiskey uses a mashbill that contains an insane amount of malted barley for a bourbon, 34% to be exact. Would you like to learn more about distilleries and bourbon? Are you planning a trip to Kentucky Distilleries? Maybe you would like to live the bourbon life vicariously through us?🙂 If any of these are true, then check out BourbonObsessed.Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon is produced by the Old Elk Distillery in Fort Collins, Colorado which is helmed by Greg Metze who used to be the master distiller at MGP. Thank you to Old Elk Distillery for graciously providing this sample! I hope you have enjoyed our Old Elk Port Cask Finish Bourbon Review! If you would like to learn about another whiskey from the Old Elk Cask Finishing Series, read our Old Elk Cognac Cask Finish Bourbon Review! Give it a try and let me know what you think! Cheers!🥃
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It has the complementary mix of full flavors that we have come to expect from Old Elk Distillery. So, if you are one of the many who does enjoy port and red wine finished whiskeys, I think you will like this bourbon. I have heard that sentiment echoed by others.
They had recently gotten the Port Cask Finish Old Elk in, and he said he loved it and had already finished a bottle and had bought a second. While there, I was chatting with the gentleman behind the counter. In fact, I was recently out of town and stopped into a liquor store. Popular Amongst Those Who Like Port & Red Wine Finishes Port Cask Finish is up to their usual excellent standards. Having said that, what my personal preferences are has nothing to do with Old Elk’s execution of this finished bourbon. Old Elk Cask Finishing Seriesįor full transparency’s sake, I have to admit that while I do like both red wine and port, I generally am not a red wine or port finished whiskey fan. There is also plenty of brown sugar, caramel, raisin and spice to balance things out, giving the Old Elk Port Finish Bourbon rich full flavors. The wine and port flavors are not overpowering, but they are definitely discernible. The port itself is noticeable in the nose and taste, but in the finish it takes on a more full bodied red wine character. Port and red wine flavors are present throughout the sip. 👉🏻Finish: …and continuing into the finish to be joined by noticeable spice that grows then lingers dark red wine then appears and continues throughout the long finish moderate burn 👉🏻Taste: Brown sugar, caramel, port, cedar, with a mild tartness developing late… 👉🏻Nose: Port, raisin, lightly burnt caramel, subtle cinnamon & cedar moderate alcohol Tasting Notes – Old Elk Port Cask Finish Bourbon Review It is bottled at a barrel proof of 108.1, which is a much higher proof than is used for their standard 88 proof bourbon. The bourbon is matured for at least 5 years, then finished in 59 gallon Port casks for another 10 months to a year. The High Malt Bourbon uses Old Elk’s standard mash bill of 51% corn, 34% malted barley and 15% rye. Similar to the Cognac Cask Finish Bourbon, Old Elk’s High Malt Bourbon serves as the base for the Port Cask Finish Bourbon as well. Port Cask Finish had first been released in 2021 and due to its popularity, it is making a return engagement. It joins the returning Cognac Cask Finish Bourbon and the new Rum Cask Finish Rye. The Old Elk Port Cask Finish Bourbon is one of the three new releases in Old Elk’s Cask Finishing Series. Please enjoy our Old Elk Port Cask Finish Bourbon Review! Port Cask Finish Bourbon Returns Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Port Barrels
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