Holladay Soft Red Wheat Rickhouse Proof Straight Bourbon Whiskey

(UNFILTERED – UNCUT – FULL FLAVOR)

Age: 6-years

Proof: varies

Mash bill: 73/15/12 Corn/Wheat/Malted Barley

Source: Holladay Distillery, Weston MO

About the product: Holladay Soft Red Wheat Rickhouse Proof Bourbon is Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bourbon in its original form, straight out of the barrel.

When Master Distiller Kyle Merklein pulls samples of bourbon, he is always tasting them at full-proof. It’s special to be able to share this bourbon in its original state just as he would taste in the rickhouse. With a higher proof, the flavor of the bourbon is more robust and complex than what you would taste at a lower proof.

Distiller’s Notes by Kyle Merklein: “Just like the August Ben Holladay, the plan with this batch was to release the Rickhouse Proof bourbon out into the market. Keeping that in mind, I had no desire to do another single floor release like what we did in August. Rather, the plan was to again keep a very balanced bourbon that had a nice mix throughout the rickhouse.

The one interesting challenge with this batch was that I was trying to allocate all of the remaining barrels for the Soft Red Wheat Spring 2017 distillation season. This was still another large batch for us – a total of 181 barrels were dumped to produce both the BiB and Rickhouse with a barrel loss of 30.0% during aging. The Rickhouse Proof version is 120.1 proof for this bottling.

A total of 17 different ricks were used from floors 1-5 with a weighted average of 3.77. Because of the various ricks used, a total of 32 distilling days were used in the batch from the Spring 2017 distilling season.”