Straight Bourbon

This addition to the Woody Creek Family of spirits has been years in the making. Our much anticipated Colorado Bourbon, aged a minimum of four years in deeply charred new American oak, has just enough spice to get your attention, with hints of cinnamon, caramel, and honey in the background. Settle in to its complex personality and satisfyingly long finish, and you’ll agree that it was certainly worth the wait.

90 PROOF | 45% ALC/VOL

$54.99

Tasting notes

A forward nose of vanilla, caramel and oak with just enough spice to get your attention. It finishes with hints of caramel and a touch of honey and oats. A Smooth and complex whiskey that is Colorado Born and Raised!

Tasting notes

A forward nose of vanilla, caramel and oak with just enough spice to get your attention. It finishes with hints of caramel and a touch of honey and oats. A Smooth and complex whiskey that is Colorado Born and Raised!

Don’t sweat the technique

We source all our grain from Colorado farmers. Our Straight Bourbon Whiskey mashbill is: 70% #2 Dent Corn | 15% Elbon Rye | 15% Malted Barley

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 wash line in the cookers. Cooking takes 3-5 hours.

Note: Malted Barley contains a natural enzyme that helps facilitate saccharification and control liquefaction, no additional enzyme is needed.

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.

Cocktails at home

Chai Hot Toddy

2 oz WOODY CREEK BOURBON
6-8 oz MOUNTAIN HIGH CHAI TEA
.5 oz COLORADO LOCAL HIVE HONEY
DEHYDRATED APPLE SLICE GARNISH

Whiskey A Go-Go

1.5 oz WOODY CREEK BOURBON
.5 oz LEMON JUICE
4 DASHES STRONGWATER CHERRY BITTERS
4 oz FEVER-TREE SPICED ORANGE GINGER ALE
ORANGE WHEEL FOR GARNISH

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