Woodford Reserve Master's Collection Chocolate Malted Rye Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Woodford Reserve Master's Collection Chocolate Malted Rye Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The Woodford Reserve Distillery sits on what was once an old Distillery founded by Elijah and his son, Oscar Pepper, in the 1800s. Under the stewardship of Oscar and Master Distiller James Crow, their distillery reformed and modernized the process of producing whiskey in the United States the distillery revolutionized the concepts of sour mash and yeast propagation. Nearly two centuries later, Chris Morris Woodford Reserve's seventh master distiller pays homage to Pepper and Crow with Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon. Morris, who began working at Woodford Reserve Distillery when he was just 16 years old, is one of the foremost experts in the production and maturation of bourbon and samples up to 180 unique whiskies each day. It's about pursuing flavor through modernizing old practices, says the 55-year-old master distiller. The Woodford Reserve Master's Collection Chocolate Malted Rye is the 15th release in the series honoring the pioneering work of Pepper and Crow. The series applies their handcrafted methods to a variety of grain recipes, fermentation styles and maturation processes to create a range of unique whiskeys. Chocolate malt is simply a malted grain that's been toasted to bring out more of its sugars, which yields chocolatey flavors in the finished whisky. This Chocolate Malted Rye is crafted by roasting the rye malt to a level that its natural sugars caramelized into a dark chocolate note. Distilled from a mash of 70% corn, 15% chocolate malted rye, 15% distillers malt, this bourbon is bottled at 90.4 proof. Pick up your bottle today!