This expression can be found next to his new linked rye as this year`s new addition to his glued series. This series highlights the innovation and know-how of its distillers while respecting the traditional art of blending and related expressions. Overall, I liked it very much. Colorado Whiskey has a lot to offer, and Laws Whiskey House knows exactly what they`re doing with these versions. This is probably one of my favorite new related expressions. Best of all, you don`t need to pay for an arm and leg or do a multi-year search to find them, making pickup a breeze. Since bottled whisky must be distilled by a distiller in one season, you will find the Four Grain Bourbon Batch 6 with two dictated labels. #6-S and #6-F for spring or fall. Anyway, both labels were distilled in 2013. There are not many whiskies with a four-grain puree calculation on the market.

I myself like four-grain puree certificates because of their complexity and depth. In the final of bardstown World`s Top Whiskey Taster, I won the blending round of the contest using sixty percent four-grain whiskey. To be considered a bonded bottled whisky, the print must be produced by a distillery in a single season, must be bottled at 100 Proof (50% vol.) and must have matured in a federal customs warehouse for at least four years. The sixth version of their Bonded Four Grain Bourbon by Laws is one of the oldest bourbons released from the distillery and consists of two separate lots. One lot is from the spring 2013 season marked with lot code #6-S, and the other is from the fall season of the same year, marked with lot code #6-F. Laws Whiskey House is solid with both of these practices. Most of their whiskies use some kind of non-traditional grain or mash spout and many of them have been bottled in Bond versions. The Laws Whiskey House Four Grain Bourbon is particularly noteworthy in this regard, as it is not at least four years old, but six years old.

The team at Laws Whiskey House, based in Colorado, is committed to a grain-glass philosophy and uses the different local climates to support the aging of their products. The grain comes from local farms and consists largely of heritage varieties. The Laws team launched its first Bourbon Bonded Four Grain in 2016. This successful excursion into crowded whiskey also marked the first bound bourbon in the state of Colorado and one of the first four-grain bound bourbons in the country. Six years later, they are preparing for the release of lot #6 of their Bonded Four Grain Bourbon and Batch #3 of their Bonded San Luis Valley Rye. The unofficial motto of Laws Whiskey House is “no shortcuts”. Officially, it says, “Manufacture rather than goods. Quality rather than quantity. Whisky in particular. Amid a thriving artisanal spirits scene in Colorado, founder Al Laws knows that well-made whiskey takes time, creativity, and dedication. What makes Laws unique is its reinvention of whisky tradition to create the best possible product, from its bespoke vendôme to the challenging and meticulous production of four-grain whisky as its flagship product.

Laws regularly pushes his whiskey into middle age, although it`s not quite there yet. Nevertheless, the results really continue to improve, step by step. The 8-year-old bound four-grain shows some sophistication, but remains very accessible, making it a delicious sip. P.S. please check Makers Mark RC6. It`s one of the best I`ve ever had. In addition, Laws makes a four-grain bourbon: 60% corn, 20% old wheat, 10% heritage rye, 10% heritage malted barley. This is lot #6 of the series, and I`m now very excited to see if lot #7 will be nine years old. This is not the first time that the people of Laws have made a four grains, which gives them experience working with such recipes.

However, this is a bottle version in the bond that further expands the necessities and has to jump through the various hoops to be bound by the government. Previously, Laws had released a three-year version of this whisky made with 95 proofs or 47.5% ABV, using the same puree calculation: 60% corn, 20% ancient wheat, 10% heritage rye and 10% heritage malt barley. Pretty nice. The aroma presents itself as a beautiful heavy bourbon with a unique spice profile that I really appreciate; The palate turns to a more traditional artisanal profile with a little more rawness; The finish is a pleasant dark fade. In recent years, Colorado-based Laws Whiskey House has relied on the age of its linked whiskies year after year. I enjoyed watching the progress and results so much that I think I need to plan a visit to Centennial State in 2023 to coincide with the release of the next batches of bourbon and rye. I`m particularly attached to these things because I`ve been beating the drum of the growing maturity of American Craft Whiskey for longer than there are those whiskies related to Extra-Aged Laws. In this case, however, it`s more than that. This stuff is so good.

The 4-year-old Bourbon bound Four Grain was one of my personal favorites, but with the release of the 6-year-old print, we raise the bar and move the Grain Oven connected to an older profile,” said Al Laws, founder of Laws Whiskey House. This version produces softer notes of vanilla and caramel and an improved black cherry flavor that you don`t get from the 4-year-old version. It`s also a piece of Colorado Spirits history. When Laws came out with its first bound release, it was the first bound whiskey ever made in Colorado. To conclude this short series of Scotch reviews, we head to Orkney for this review, the 2002 A.D. Rattray Orkney 15 Years, and the next one. [Read more…] about 2002 A.D. Rattray Orkney 15 Years Review A brief overview of what whisky is linked to explain what I mean by “extra-aged”. According to a federal law of 1897, bound whisky must come from a single distillery and a single distillation season; be old under state supervision; be at least four years old; and bottled in 100 proofs. Thus, any whisky that has matured for more than four years is above the minimum prescribed by law. I love well-made four-grain whiskies.

This adds a unique level of depth and viscosity to the input, which in my opinion is multisensory. NOSE Roasted cereals, caramel, oak, black fruits, cooking spices, fatty nuts and earth. I`ve read a lot of other reviews for Bulleit 10 and I feel like I`m part of the minority of people who prefer the 10 to regular Bulleit bourbon. I. [Read more…] About Bulleit 10 Review The most recent trend is the movement toward expressions bottled up in the leap of small distillers hitting the Kentucky and Tennessee Majors in the middle. Under federal law, customs whiskies must be at least four years old, draw from stocks produced in a single distillery and during a single distillation season, mature in a government-supervised warehouse (thus “bound”) and be bottled to 100 tests. Related expressions became popular a few years ago when age indications and single-barrel whiskies became rarer. At about the same time that large distillers were responding by introducing or expanding their linked labels, small distillers had expanded their stock to such an extent that they too could import bound whiskies. A fan favorite of many at Laws Whiskey Village, it`s a distinctive and blatant rye whose grain flavors dominate the finish even after 7 years in charred oak barrels. I`m a fan of your reviews and I read them often, but I have a review I have to share. I live in southwestern Virginia and I don`t have to accept being lumped in with Colorado, Wyoming and Pennsylvania.

Our weather in Virginia is very similar to kentucky. Hot summers and cold winters. A. Smith Bowman is a great representation of our state and I think below-average whiskies are the result of youth/skills as opposed to climate. Nevertheless, keep checking and I will keep reading. It seems that a 6-year-old from places like Colorado, Virginia, Wyoming or Pennsylvania is about the same as a 3-year-old from more traditional bourbon-making regions. Which makes sense. One of the reasons scotch takes so long to ripen is that it`s cold in Scotland, so there`s less expansion and contraction of barrels.