70/30 Bourbon Whiskey

We’ve poured ourselves into bringing you this straight rye whiskey of uncommon complexity and “damn that’s smooth” taste. Each bottle of our 100% Colorado Rye is crafted in custom CARL stills using locally grown rye from trusted Colorado farms, then gracefully aged a minimum of four years in new American oak. Indeed, this is how you turn rye into gold.

94 PROOF | 47% ALC/VOL

Tasting Notes

Baking spices, fruit and grass hit you up front and mingle with sweet caramel and a touch of oak. The sweetness of Colorado corn is prevalent at first sip and persists on the back end against the prominent rye spice. A symphony of Colorado corn and rye aged perfectly together

Tasting Notes

Baking spices, fruit and grass hit you up front and mingle with sweet caramel and a touch of oak. The sweetness of Colorado corn is prevalent at first sip and persists on the back end against the prominent rye spice. A symphony of Colorado corn and rye aged perfectly together

Don’t sweat the technique

We source all our grain from Colorado farmers.
Our High Rye 70/30 Bourbon mash bill is: 100% Colorado grain: 70% #2 Dent Corn | 30% Elbon Rye

After receiving the grain, we mill onsite to a 1/16th inch sieve (coarse flour consistency). The milled grain and pure Rocky Mountain water are then combined and brought to the 6,000L mark in the cookers. During cooking an all-natural enzyme is added to help convert the starches to sugars (saccharification) and help control the consistency of the mash (liquefaction).

Cooking takes 3-5 hours.

When the cooking is done, we transfer the mash (aka beer) to a jacketed fermentation tank of equal size. A Distiller’s Yeast is pitched and fermentation begins.
Our typical fermentation takes 4.5 days, yielding a mash at 8-10% alcohol by volume (abv).

Note: Industry standards are 3 to 4 days.

Oscar is our 36” diameter Beer Stripping Still. He’s able to take a 12,000L batch (two fermentation tanks combined) from 8-10% abv to 75% abv in just one
run.

First Dilution:
To create a more refined spirit we dilute our now 75% abv distillate down to resulting low wine (35% abv) with reverse osmosis (RO) water in preparation for the second distillation.

For the final distillation the 35% abv low wine is pumped into Maisy, our pot/column hybrid still, and one of the short 4 plate columns is utilized. It’s here that we capture the spirit bound for barrel aging, the heart of the distillate, at 75% abv. From our initial volume of 12,000L, only 786L will see the inside of a barrel.

Second Dilution:
Before our 70/30 Straight High Rye Bourbon Whiskey goes into barrels for aging, we dilute the whiskey with RO water. The RO water is used to not alter the exact flavor after distillation. Our whiskey enters the barrel at 60% abv.

Barrels are transferred to our 10,000 sq ft rickhouse in Cattle Creek, about 10 minutes down the road, where they’ll rest until pulled for blending and bottling.

Third Dilution
Woody Creek High Rye 70/30 Bourbon Whiskey is a blend of barrels between 4 and 6 years old. We blend for flavor consistency across batches, then bring the bourbon down to 45% abv for bottling.

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