THE MOST INNOVATIVE AMERICAN WHISKEYS OF 2022

Maxim | Nicolas Stecher | December 29, 2022

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The fourth and penultimate chapter in Maxim’s annual Best In New American Whiskey guide is very straightforward: Innovation. Today’s list tips a dram to all those distilleries searching for flavor profiles outside normal convention, applying different processes, ingredients, blends, barrels and more to achieve something both remarkable and unique.

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OLD ELK ‘MASTER’S BLEND SERIES DOUBLE WHEAT’ WHISKEY

So much good whiskey is spilling from the snowy peaks of Colorado you have to question if it’s become the Kentucky of the Rockies. Distillery 291, Stranahan’s, Laws, Blackhat…the list goes on and on. You can now add Fort Collins’ Old Elk to the list. Only founded in 2013 Old Elk Bourbon made a brilliant move by bringing Master Distiller Greg Metze and his four-plus decades of experience (including 38 years in Lawrenceburg, Indiana’s MGP) into the fold. Now they’re rewarding him with a Master’s Blend Series of limited edition releases. 

Their Master’s Blend Series Double Wheat combines two of Old Elk’s most awarded wheated whiskeys: Old Elk Straight Wheat Whiskey + Old Elk Straight Wheated Bourbon. The bourbon is aged 6 years, the wheat whiskey aged between 6-8. Blended together (71.5% Wheat / 25% Corn / 3.5% Barley), the marriage creates a beautiful, creamy whiskey, combining the smoothness of a wheated whiskey with indulgent layers of a sweet honey rum cake. $99.99

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