Old Potrero Straight Rye Single Barrel Whiskey is pot-distilled from a mash of 100% malted rye. Aged for 8 years and 3 months, it is bottled at varying proofs. Produced by Old Potrero, credited as the first American craft whiskey after Prohibition, it retails for around $89.99.
It sat in this place where the sorghum-molasses style of sweetness that so many malted rye whiskeys possess joins hands with sarsaparilla, which is what malted rye should have always been, in my humble opinion. It’s not an exaggeration to say I’ve been looking for malted rye to do this very thing on the palate for several years now.
