Welcome to the Cult of Mellow Corn. We have memes. Bearing the same chintzy label it did at its release in 1945, Mellow Corn can be found buried on Heaven Hill Distillery’s brand page — and somewhere ...

The best single barrel bourbons or whiskeys or rums reflect one barrel’s ability to age and mellow a spirit into ... Maple syrup supports corn-forward caramel sweetness that leads to bursts ...

This would mean, typically, that a single barrel is going to be wildly unbalanced, leaning either drastically in the direction of a high rye character, or toward something like Mellow Corn.

And now there’s Mellow Corn, a whiskey made with at least 80 percent corn in the mashbill and aged for four years in a used oak barrel. (Bourbon, of course, is made with at least 51 percent corn ...