{"product_id":"castle-key-2025-experimental-finished-in-extra-old-haitian-rhum-casks-kentucky-straight-rye-whiskey","title":"Castle \u0026 Key 2025 Experimental Finished In Extra Old Haitian Rhum Casks Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCastle \u0026amp; Key's Experimental Series is where the distillery lets its mind wander, and the 2025 edition sends Kentucky rye to Haiti. The base is the house rye — 63% German rye, 17% yellow corn from Walnut Grove Farm in Adairville, Kentucky, and 20% malted barley — a blend of four- and five-year-old whiskeys aged in untoasted char #3 new American oak from Speyside Cooperage, made at the restored Old Taylor Distillery in Millville. It then spends over a year finishing in \"Extra Old\" rhum casks from an unspecified Haitian distillery — barrels that previously held cane-juice rhum aged at least six years, the same category as Barbancourt's aged expressions. Bottled non-chill filtered at cask strength, 58.05% ABV (116.1 proof), with only 1,800 cases produced. Master Distiller Brett Connors calls the series rare by design, meant to be shared with purpose. The result is unusually lush for a rye: brûléed banana, cream cheese frosting, dried pineapple, and Demerara sugar spiked with cinnamon and a hint of savory smoke on the nose, opening into fruitcake, blackstrap molasses, plum, hibiscus, rum-soaked raisins, fried plantain, black cardamom, and clove, finishing on currants, anise, cigar wrapper, and persistent dark sugar. Haitian rhum's grassy, funky character is the missing piece most rum-finished whiskeys lack — this one has it. Superb neat, and a genuinely strange, wonderful Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBuy Castle \u0026amp; Key 2025 Experimental Finished In Extra Old Haitian Rhum Casks Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chips Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49741488259328,"sku":"C0010273L","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/CastleandkeyRumfinsih.jpg?v=1789798093","url":"https:\/\/chipsliquor.com\/products\/castle-key-2025-experimental-finished-in-extra-old-haitian-rhum-casks-kentucky-straight-rye-whiskey","provider":"Chips Liquor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}