STAGE ONE
Mashing
Grain cooked and fermented into a low-alcohol wash. Nothing here is drinkable yet, it's just the raw material for the still.
Four stages, one batch
Only the heart makes it to the bottle.
A still run comes off in three parts, heads, hearts, and tails, in that order. Only the hearts, the clean middle third, ever reaches a bottle. The rest is discarded, not blended back in to stretch the batch.
Still is running today, tasting room opens hourly.
The four stages
Same batch, same order, every run.
STAGE TWO
The cut
Heads, hearts, and tails come off the still in that order. Only the hearts, the clean middle third, go on.
STAGE THREE
Aging
Years in oak, not weeks. The barrel does more to the final flavor than the still does.
STAGE FOUR
Bottling
Cut to proof with water, filtered, and bottled. The last step, not a shortcut past the first three.
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See what's in the barrel now and what's actually bottled.