Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection No. 17 Five-Malt Stouted Mash

Master's Collection No. 17, Five-Malt Stouted Mash, is Woodford Reserve made like a stout — five malted barleys, including roasted and chocolate malt, in the mash — bottled at 90.4 proof, one of the strangest bourbons a major Kentucky house has released. Woodford Reserve is Brown-Forman's showpiece distillery on Glenn's Creek in Versailles, Kentucky, distilling since 1812 on the site and running the only triple copper pot stills in bourbon; the Master's Collection is its annual experiment, one variable a year, and No. 17, from 2021, was Chris Morris's beer-nerd year. The mash swaps the standard malted barley for five malts — pale, chocolate, roasted, and two more — the way a brewer builds a stout, with corn still the majority so it stays bourbon, and bottles at 90.4 proof. The Whiskey Wash: coffee and cocoa notes, drier than expected — the roasted malts read as espresso and dark chocolate rather than sweetness. Distiller's user reviews find the same stout-like nose over a lighter, spicier Woodford palate. Expect a bourbon that smells like a coffee stout and drinks like Woodford with the sugar turned down — cocoa, roast, rye spice, and a dry finish. Honest note: a polarizing back release for the beer-geek bourbon drinker and the Master's Collection completist — nobody else has made one, and Woodford won't again. Neat, in a Glencairn. Master's Collection No. 17, stouted.

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