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 ...

Four Roses is one of the most celebrated distilleries in the entire world, but what bottle of its bourbon is the bet of them ...

In 2004, Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge released the first single barrel expression in the ... The two mashbill recipes are B (60 percent corn, 35 percent rye, five percent malted ...

Let's take a look at the bourbons and ryes that were finalists in the Single Barrel Pick category ... on the ASCOT Awards website are: "Mellow caramel corn aromas flecked with leather, sandalwood ...

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.

While you can’t go wrong with the distillery’s classic (and inexpensive) Four Roses Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon, it shines with its single-barrel expressions.

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 ...

The first release of the Heritage Collection series was last year’s 17-Year-Old Barrel Proof Bourbon ... a different product? Is the Mellow Corn on your package store shelf, priced at $15 ...

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 ...

In 2004, Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge released the first single barrel expression in the ... to creating Four Roses’ signature mellow spice, and this collection provides the ...