Whiskey Insight Magazine

Decisions, Decisions

🥃 Castle & Key 4yr Small Batch Bourbon
Mash Bill: 73% white corn, 10% rye, 17% malted barley (unusually high)
Proof: 98
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This bourbon comes with a lot of fanfare and anticipation, especially since Marianne Eaves (First Female Master Distiller) was responsible for the recipe (mash bill), processes, and distillation until 2019.

Now for my thoughts on this young bourbon:
Nose: Brown Sugar with a little toasted honey
Palate: Seems very much like spice but not in a hot way, almost tangy. The spice must be the ethanol.
Finish: The finish was fast! Maybe 10 seconds. It dissipated from my taste buds too quickly.
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I cannot wait for the other barrels to mature a few more years.

📷:
🥃: Old Fitzgerald 11yr - Bottled in Bond
Proof: 100
Mashbill: 75% Corn, 20% Wheat, 5% Malted Barley.

This Old Fitz 11yr is phenomenal.
Heavenly brown sugar nose, first presents the sweetness found in the 8 year that was so good, followed with the complex Fitzgerald funk found in the older 14 and 15 years on the finish. Heaven Hill really hit the bullseye on this one for me.