![]() I had high hopes it was going to be as awesome as Remus Repeal Reserve Bourbon which he 100% distilled and was aged in Indiana, but not put out by him, is so darn good. ![]() It’s easy to find a similar profile to the Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon in something like an Evan Williams. Made with 2-8-year-old whiskey, aged in multiple different climates but distilled by Greg at MGP, is a bit… meh. While I like the bottle design and love the irony of a NDP sourcing whiskey he actually did distill, the whiskey itself doesn’t really make an impact on me. The present though I’m not exactly fawning over. I have zero doubt they’ll be pumping out amazing whiskey in a couple years. I know Greg Metze will end up making some killer whiskey up there in Colorado, because MGP has cranked out killed stuff for years, so I’m not worried about the future of Old Elk. Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon is just ok. Ok balance, thin body and a light watery feel. Honey, toffee, vanilla, orange peels, cocoa, spice, fruit and a bit of oak and Smarties.Ĭorn, caramel, vanilla, biscuits, peanuts and a bit of oak and fruit. Mashbill: 51% Corn, 34% Malted Barley, 15% Rye Now the big question is how does it taste and smell? Let’s dig into the Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon review to find out! Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Info A completely innocent and logical explanation behind the classification. Looking toward the future, once distillery operations expand, we plan to produce Old Elk out of Fort Collins, CO – where the company headquarters are based. Therefore, the “different states” aspect comes into play there. The recipe is our recipe (crafted by Greg), but as we get up to speed on our production facility here at home in CO, we worked with partners to help age. Old Elk Bourbon meets all of the requirements to be called a “Straight Bourbon Whiskey” except that the bourbon whiskies used in the blend were not produced in the same state.Īnd to clarify the “same state” mention, our introductory batch of Old Elk Bourbon was created with partners in New York, Indiana and Colorado. So, to clarify, Old Elk Bourbon contains no coloring, flavoring or blending materials. Therefore, Old Elk Bourbon is relegated to Section 5 (ii) “A Blend of Straight Bourbon Whiskies” which allows the use of coloring, flavoring or blending materials but does not mandate it.Old Elk Bourbon also conforms to Section 2 Grain Spirits (1)(iii) as a “Straight Bourbon Whisky” except that it is a blend of straight bourbon whiskies from other states, not the same state.Old Elk Bourbon conforms to Section 2 Grain Spirits (1)(i) Bourbon Whisky.The “Standards of Identity” used by the TTB can be confusing: ![]() Here’s what Greg and team wrote back about the naming of theirOld Elk Blended Straight Bourbon: But Metze didn’t intone either to Fred so I reached out to Old Elk to see why exactly they call it a blended straight bourbon. All distilleries blend various ages together to make their whiskeys so it should just be called a bourbon if it all came from MGP meaning it had to contain whiskey from other distilleries or using blending or flavoring additives. Which to me still didn’t fully explain why it’s called the Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon. “It’s blended with various aged bourbons ranging from 2.8 – 8.2 years.” “The mash bill was developed as a collaborative effort between myself and Old Elk and distilled under my tutelage while Master Distiller of the Lawrenceburg plant,” Metze told me. So what exactly makes the Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon a blend? Well if we take a look at Fred Minnick’s site we find out some of the details from Greg himself Every Old Elk Bourbon barrel is hand-selected by our distilling team, where they follow sensory and sampling criteria to ensure the barrels create a consistent blended profile year after year.” To help age and blend the bourbon whiskey, Old Elk worked with three key partners to ensure the quality and consistency of our barrel-aged blended bourbon. The Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey recipe was created by the Old Elk Distillery team and Greg Metze. “Old Elk Distillery is currently a production facility, with a vision to open a larger distillery and tasting room in Colorado. ![]() In Old Elk Distillery’s Words: Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Most bourbons come in at the 4-6% range making this a unique mashbill in the bourbon world where rye or wheat are typically the second highest grain in the mashbill. This whiskey uses a mashbill that contains an insane amount of malted barley for a bourbon, 34% to be exact. Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon is produced by the Old Elk Distillery in Fort Collins, Colorado which is helmed by Greg Metze who used to be the master distiller at MGP. ![]()
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