Tag Archives: American Malt

Lost Lantern Ventures Into Crafty Single Casks

Lost Lantern, a new independent bottler of American whiskey, is excited to announce the addition of four hand-selected single casks to their initial release lineup. These highly limited, one-of-a-kind single casks consist of unique and deeply expressive whiskies produced by some of the finest distilleries in the United States. “We wanted our first round of single casks to encourage whiskey ...

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Stranahan’s Launches A New Solera-Finished Malt

Colorado’s Stranahan’s Distillery, one of the forerunners of American craft whiskey, has announced a new expression, Blue Peak. Named for a 13-thousand-foot peak in Aspen, Blue Peak is built around a small batch of single malt whiskey that has been hand-crafted at a high altitude and aged for four years in 53 gallon, new American oak barrels with a #3 ...

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Lost Lantern Brings Vatted Malts To American Craft Whiskey

The best whiskey reflects its origin, its craftsmanship, its ingredients, and its distillers. Inspired by the long tradition of independent bottlers in Scotland, Lost Lantern is a new independent bottler of American whiskey. The company seeks out the most unique and exciting whiskies being made all across the country and releases them as single casks and blends, always with a ...

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Black Butte American Malt Whiskey Review

By Andrew Graham Grade: B+ Let’s start off by getting technical. Scotch-makers must use 100% malted barley in their mash bill. U.S. regulations, by contrast, permit a spirit that’s just 51% malted barley to be labeled as malt whiskey. So this American malt might taste more like a bourbon, that American malt might taste more like a rye, and it ...

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Seattle’s Westland Launches New Whiskey Series

Rooted in true provenance, the new Outpost Range of American Single Malt Whiskies reflects Seattle’s Westland Distillery’s core mission to push beyond the Old World conventions of single malt whiskies. With the launch of this new series, Westland is exploring new possibilities in the form of three expressions that will be released annually: Garryana American Single Malt, Colere American Single ...

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