Chwisgi.com » Colorado http://chwisgi.com Hi whisky lover! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Malt Mission 2009 #366 http://chwisgi.com/news/malt-mission-2009-366-2/ http://chwisgi.com/news/malt-mission-2009-366-2/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:17:00 +0000 Mr WhiskyRobot tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30970998.post-3897879501771265218
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Stranahan's
Straight Rocky Mountain Whiskey
batch 32, 11/22/06
47% abv
$55

As promised, here come some more world whiskies, starting with this sweet drop from firefighter/booze-lover partners Jess Gerber and George Stranahan. Using Rocky Mountain water and Rocky mountain barley, 80% from within Colorado, Stranahan's holds fast to the belief that the quality of the sources of their natural ingredients separate them from the rest of the whiskey-making world.

First bottled in April 2006, Stranahan's remains a truly small-batch operation with about 60,000 bottles released per annum. And, so far as I can tell, Stranahan's is a single malt in that it is made from barley exclusively. Sku's Recent Eats confirms this with his complete list of American Whisky Distilleries and Brands, the only one of its kind online, I believe. Thanks for the resource, Sku.

Now let's taste.

TASTING NOTES:

Delicious butterscotch sweetness. Cedar, oak, banana chips and other dried fruit.

Big vanilla bearhug, woody, apple-y, and mildly spicy. Quick sweet finish encourages another sip. Or serving.

SUMMARY:

Simple and simply wonderful. Quaffable, sweet, and balanced whiskey, although nothing distinctly single malt about it. It shares features more with American-style whiskey. And that's no criticism.

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]]> Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey is a 94 proof, small-batch whiskey distilled in Denver, Colorado. Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey is the first microdistillery making whiskey in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains as well as one of the first in the country. Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey is the first of a new category known as “Rocky Mountain Straight Whiskey”

The whiskey is made from a unique four-barley fermented wash that consists of carbon filtered Rocky Mountain water and western barley that is grown in the Northern Rockies. The wash is distilled in a Vendome Copper custom-made pot/still and then aged in 52.8 gallon heavily charred, American white oak whiskey barrels for a minimum of two years. 10 barrels are combined to make each batch.

Stranahan’s is named after minority owner, educator and activist George Stranahan, who also owns the Flying Dog Brewery formerly of Denver, currently located in Maryland.


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