Utah’s High West Drops The Prisoner’s Share 2026
Utah’s High West Distillery has released the 2026 installment of its The Prisoner’s Share, a hybrid of contract produced and in-house produced bourbon and rye whiskeys.
From its first product launch, High West established a reputation for artful blending and transparent sourcing, making them instant fan favorites. Since then, they partly transitioned into being a craft distillery: they make their own whiskey in Utah, but also continue to source and contract produce stocks of whiskey from elsewhere to make their products, which are often blends of two or more of these three methods of getting the whiskey.
The Prisoner’s Share is a hybrid, which is to say it blends two distinct categories of whiskey. For its bourbon, it draws on stocks sourced from MGP in Indiana; contract produced at Bardstown Bourbon Company in Kentucky; and their own Utah-made bourbon. For the rye, they reached for the ubiquitous MGP-made 95% rye and their own in-house rye whiskey.
The age of these various whiskeys ranged from four to twelve years, and the resulting hybrid blend was bottled at 101 proof. The Prisoner 2026 bears an official price tag of $174.99.
