Long Road Straight Bourbon is produced by Long Road Distillers in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is milled from locally sourced whole grain, fermented on-site and distilled twice on a 500-gallon Vendome copper pot still. Bottled at 93 proof, it is non-chill filtered and aged for nearly three years in 53-gallon new American oak barrels.
I was captivated by my first whiff of this; maybe Long Road really had managed to deliver something different and better than the rest of the bourbon whiskey on the shelf? Unfortunately, that hope was dashed by an initial taste. Not one to rush to judgment, I revisited this periodically and found no improvement, but rather a degradation of the few appealing notes that were there.
