Old Elk Master's Blend Four Grain Bourbon Whiskey

Old Elk is what happens when the founder of OtterBox hires the man who ran MGP's stills for decades — Curt Richardson and master distiller Greg Metze, in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a proofing method that takes weeks instead of minutes. Metze spent nearly forty years at MGP, the Indiana distillery behind half the sourced bourbon in America, and distilled Old Elk's whiskey there to his own recipes before the brand's Colorado operation came online; every Old Elk is brought down to proof by Slow Cut — adding Rocky Mountain water a little at a time over weeks, because Metze believes a fast cut shocks the spirit and strips flavor. Master's Blend Four Grain is his showpiece: 51% corn, 22.5% wheat, 19% malted barley, and 7.5% rye — a mashbill with barely enough corn to be bourbon — aged six to seven years and bottled at 105.9 proof. The Whiskey Wash: oak and pine, bananas Foster, golden marshmallow, and red cherry on the nose; milk chocolate, vanilla, and honey with a buttery mouthfeel and a mint-rye lift on the palate; and a tannic, mineral, dry finish — 7 out of 10, well blended. Drinkhacker and Amongst the Whiskey both note the malted barley's biscuit richness. Honest note: four-grain bourbon is rare and this is one of the few from a master distiller with real bona fides — for the drinker who wants to taste what barley and wheat do together, and the Old Elk collector. Neat, a drop of water. Old Elk, four grains.

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