Surf City Still Works Pacific Reserve Bourbon Whiskey

Pacific Reserve is the small-barrel, single-barrel bourbon from Surf City Still Works, Huntington Beach's first craft distillery, founded around 2018 by husband-and-wife partners Josh and Elena Kornoff in a business park off Gothard Street. Josh spent fifteen years as a Hollywood special-effects supervisor and later founded a drone company; Elena came from beer and wine sales and logistics, and the pair built the brand around the town's surf identity, with a tasting room and restaurant added behind the distillery in 2020. Pacific Reserve is their top-shelf bottle and the opposite of a mass bottling: each release comes from a single five-gallon barrel, which yields only about 20 to 25 bottles, and it goes into the bottle at cask strength, non-diluted, so the proof moves slightly from barrel to barrel around 55% ABV. The small cask means a lot of wood contact in a short time, and the distillery describes the result as brown sugar and maple up front with a hint of toasted oak on the finish; add a few drops of water or a large ice block and rich vanilla comes forward. A limited California bourbon that changes a little with every barrel.

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