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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