Castle & Key Small Batch Wheated Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, USA

Let the wheated fun begin!

Let’s take a walk through the history of American Bourbon, shall we? In 1887, Colonel E.H. Taylor opened a distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, one that resembled medieval European Castles. The beauty and elegance of the building were a signal of the kind of Whiskies Old Taylor would make. Always putting quality over quantity, Old Taylor was the main man responsible for the “Bottled-in-bond Act” in 1897, ensuring the distilleries had to meet certain Spirit requirements. The palace of the King of Bourbon was uninhabited from 1972 to 2014, when two local lads, Wes Murrey and Will Arvin, took it for its own. To honor the great building the distillery occupied, they named it Castle & Key and took an oath to always prioritize the quality of their Spirits over anything else.

The first wheated Bourbon to ever come from this place, Caste & Key Wheated is made from a mashbill of 73 % white corn, 10 % white wheat, and 17 % Kentucky malted barley, and distilled in two stills the distillery operates in: one is affectionately called Maribelle (after the Colonel's wife) and the other Fanny (after his daughter). This sweet-tasting, smooth-finishing Whiskey comes in two batches of 49 barrels. Batch Nr 2 is bottled at an ABV of 49% and offers amazing sweet and spicy flavors, making it very easy to sip neat, but will taste extraordinarily in any cocktail too.