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Secondhand spirits5/9/2023 “The Experimental Collection is not about breaking the rules of Bourbon in fact, 95% of our experiments stay within the confines of traditional methods of making whiskey,” said Harlen Wheatley, Buffalo Trace’s master distiller. It was said that a sorcerer learned magic through training. In the old days the burning times there was a distinction made between sorcerers and witches. The resulting liquid offers a ‘smoky and nutty’ aroma, with hints of leather, mahogany and cacao beans, with flavours of ‘light smoke’, brown butter, and a sweet toffee finish. Secondhand Spirits, first in the new Witchcraft Mystery Series, features Lily Ivory, a witch who opens a vintage clothing store in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. The distillate was aged for nearly 10 years in new charred white oak casks before being bottled at 45% ABV. The use of peated malt is rare in American whiskey production, the Kentucky distiller said. The ‘one-of-a-kind’ Bourbon uses smoked peated malt to add a ‘hint of smoke’ to the rye mashibill. The new Buffalo Trace Experimental Peated Bourbon is the 26 th release in the brand’s Experimental Collection, created to ‘push the limits of innovation’ in American whiskey. Buffalo Trace has used peated malt for its latest release Sazerac-owned Buffalo Trace Distillery has expanded its Experimental Collection with a Bourbon made with peated malt.
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