![]() ![]() This is a rare and beautiful spirit that’s not likely to ever be made again for a long time. That time in wood had an amazing effect on the “light” spirit, imparting incredible vanilla and white chocolate notes. The High West Whiskey is quite enjoyable, perfectly serviceable, and available at a fair price. We were lucky to find 100 barrels of light whiskey produced from corn and aged in 2nd fill barrels. Straight Bourbon Whiskey: 75 corn, 21 rye, 4 barley malt from MGP 80 Rye, 20 Malted Rye from High West Distillery Blended Malt Scotch Whisky. In North America, light whiskey gets blended with heavier straight whiskey to make blended Canadian (about 95+% of all Canadian whiskey) as well as most American blended whiskeys that are not blended straight Whiskeys. It gets blended with heavier malt whiskey to make scotch. In the U.K., what they call grain whiskey is more or less the same thing as light whiskey. For this limited release, High West sourced 100 barrels of light whiskey from Indiana’s MGP, distilled from corn between 19, which spent 14 years. Rarely do you find it released on its own. It is the “dilutant” in about 95% of the world’s blended whiskeys. Typically light whiskey is used like grain whiskey is for blending, and it finds a home in various whiskey products, including Canadian whiskey. However, light whiskey has an important role to play in the world of whiskey. because we prefer our “heavier” straight whiskeys. However, most light whiskey is distilled to 94.5 ABV so it’s almost NGS! Distilling that high removes almost all the congeners, the chemicals other than ethanol that whiskey lovers call “flavor.” Light whiskey isn’t common in the U.S. At High West, we believe education leads to appreciation so we’d like to shed some light on a rarely discussed type of whiskey… “light whiskey.” Not to be confused with lower calories or an Edison light bulb, “light” denotes a grain spirit distilled between 80-95% alcohol by volume (ABV) – it’s “lighter” than a straight whiskey (which is distilled to 95%. ![]()
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