Corsair Ryemageddon is distilled in Tennessee from a mashbill of 80% malted rye and 20% chocolate rye. Aged in new charred 15-gallon oak barrels for about 11 months, it is bottled at 46% ABV.
Corsair Ryemageddon is a good rye whiskey with a lot of interesting characteristics to it. The only thing I’m missing is a bit more depth to kick it up a notch and turn it into a must have.
If I strip away all the other factors that might skew my opinion—the comically horrific aesthetic taste of the brand designers, the other lines of remarkably clever but sometimes poorly executed whiskeys in Corsair’s portfolio, the desire to love a hometown hero—I’m left with a unique rye unlike any I’ve had before that is, believe it or not, also quite pleasant, especially on the nose.
