20 Best Whiskey For Picklebacks (2022 Updated)

Larceny was hand selected by the Master Distillers to have a taste profile of a six-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Made with wheat as the secondary grain, instead of the traditional rye, Larceny is a smoother tasting Bourbon.

Powerful aromas of cigar box and cedar combine with deeper notes of cantaloupe and toasted nutmeg. Ripe melon and honey flavors abound on the palate with a delicate spiciness and sweet smokiness. The finish is honey-tinged and surprisingly dry.

Color: Bright new copper. Aroma: Fresh bread and toffee, with a note of butterscotch. Taste: Buttery caramel and honeyed notes, with a rich mouthfeel. Finish: Long, gently sweet and savory. Liquor. Alcohol 46% by volume.

Spicy and powerful. Aromas are sweet and floral, nectar like. The flavor profile is off dry, grainy, and incredibly rich with sweet baking spices. Distinct vanilla flavors round out the finish. 47% alcohol by volume.

A very sweet bouquet of caramel, vanilla, and toffee. Nutmeg and oak flow throughout providing additional layering. Overall the aromas are bright and enjoyable and hard to dislike. Although the nose is overall mild in intensity, it still has a satisfying impact despite its 86 proof.

Its creamy mouthfeel nicely compliments the bourbon’s sweeter notes of honey and orange. Spice is layered throughout and seasoned oak provides a sturdy base. It’s well balanced and pleasant. A pop of heat followed by a mild dryness powers the finish.

Caramel and spice trail off giving way to a hint of smoke on the backend that is gratifying but fleeting. Nicely constructed and a fitting end to this bourbon.

Johnnie Walker Red Label is our Pioneer Blend, the versatile one that has introduced our whisky to the world. Crafted from the four corners of Scotland, it crackles with spice and is bursting with vibrant, smoky flavors – followed by a mellow bed of vanilla, a fresh zestiness and the Johnnie Walker signature of a long, lingering, smoky finish.

Flowers that bloom into flames. Johnnie Walker Red Label is the world’s best-selling Scotch Whisky. And is made for mixing, both in exhilarating cocktails and with your favorite people. It brings together whiskies specially chosen for their bold, vibrant flavors that add a fiery kick to any mix.

Four Roses Single Barrel Bourbon is one of the most highly regarded and unique bourbons available. Distinctive fruity aromas with delicate notes of honey and maple syrup and hints of nutmeg. 50% alcohol by volume.

The big brother of the Wild Turkey 81- the Wild Turkey 101- is characterized by the rich and full-bodied taste due to the low water content. Also this whiskey gets its reddish-brown coloring by the storage of several years in oak barrels.

A mixture of 4, 6 and 8 years storage. Of course, he also retains the typical flavors of caramel and vanilla.

Though this new offering meets the technical criteria for rye (a mash bill of at least 51% rye), the sweet, caramelly flavors suggest a high-rye Bourbon-which makes sense considering that Knob Creek is best known for its Bourbon.

Expect bold almond, oak, brown butter and pecan pie flavors. The drying baking-spice finish is more characteristic of rye, and has less bite than might be expected of a 100-proof spirit. A golden amber hue with menthol confectionery notes on the nose.

Grass and peppermint notes on the palate with a hint of dried cherry. The finish is long, spicy and bold. Alcohol: 50. 0%.

The original that started it all, Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is still made to exacting standards. Knob Creek is aged to fully draw out the natural sugars in its charred white oak barrels.

This exceptional, full-bodied bourbon strikes the senses with an oak aroma, a sweet, woody, full-bodied, almost fruity taste, with a long, rich finish.

The year was 1819 and John Walker’s father had just died. John had a natural gift for business. He also had a genius for whisky. In those days, most grocers stocked a line of single malts, but they were never all that consistent.

This wasn’t good enough for John, who started blending them together, so his whisky tasted just as good every time. When John finally passed away after a full and prosperous life in 1857, he left his son, Alexander, with a very healthy business.

In 1867, he launched Johnnie Walker’s first commercial blend and called it ‘Old Highland Whisky’. Soon afterwards, Alexander began using the famous square bottle to reduce breakages and made sure much more of his whisky arrived intact at its destination.

He also added the distinctive label, slanted at precisely 20 degrees, to make it stand out even further from the crowd. In 1889, it was Alexander’s turn to pass on the Walker name, leaving the company to his sons, Alexander II and George – the former a master blender and the latter a master businessman.

By 1920, Johnnie Walker whisky was in 120 countries. Today, Johnnie Walker is the biggest whisky brand in the world and its slogan has been adopted and embraced everywhere, as a rallying cry for progress, as encouragement in adversity, as a joyful expression of optimism and as the best piece of advice you’re ever likely to hear.

Bulleit Bourbon is inspired by the whiskey that was pioneered by Augustus Bulleit over 150 years ago. Only ingredients of the very highest quality are used. The complexity of Bulleit Bourbon comes from its unique blend of rye, corn, and barley malt, along with special strains of yeast and pure Kentucky limestone-filtered water.

Due to its especially high rye content, Bulleit Bourbon has a bold, spicy character with a finish that’s distinctively clean and smooth. Medium amber in color, with gentle spiciness and sweet oak aromas, the mid-palate is smooth with tones of maple, oak, and nutmeg.

The finish is long, dry, and satiny with a light-tasting toffee flavor that lingers long after the final sip. Simply combine our bourbon whiskey with cloves, lemon juice, brown sugar and hot water for a comforting Hot Toddy.

Bulleit was named One of the Top Trending American Whiskies at the 2020 Drinks International awards. Includes one 90 proof 1 L bottle of Bourbon Whiskey. Please drink responsibly.

Taking inspiration from the tall tales of Pappy Van Winkle Sr; who claims John E. Fitzgerald, the treasury agent who owned the only keys to his whiskey warehouse. This agent developed a taste for whiskey and wasn’t adverse to sampling the barrels after hours (to check the quality of the spirit obviously!) Using a mash bill of Wheat as oppose to Rye which allows notes of sweet brown sugar, buttered corn & caramel to dance all over the palate.

Certainly a bourbon with a story to tell.

The main flavor (or melody) is sweet honey from a ripe bourbon. The enhancing flavor (or harmony) is floral fruity spice from a mature rye whiskey. The accent is the smoke from a peated scotch whisky.

The proportions? Top secret. So. as the sun sinks low and the cold settles in, grab a bottle of HIGH WEST WHISKEY CAMPFIRE and gather round a blazing fire to warm up, wind down your day, share stories, and deepen friendships.

92 Proof.

Rich, buttery nose with hints of raisins and honey. Flavors include vanilla, honey, oranges, and a well balanced backdrop of leather and spice. 45% alcohol by volume.

Buffalo Trace’s namesake bourbon is considered the “gateway” that opens up the path to everything else Buffalo Trace. BT, like Eagle Rare 10 and Stagg Jr, is made from the lower-rye content mash #1. With the same mash, the variance between bourbons then, apart from proof, primarily comes from barrel selection across various rickhouses and floors.

The former George T. Stagg distillery was renamed Buffalo Trace when Sazerac took over ownership in 1999. Master Distiller, Elmer T. Lee, came out of retirement for the creation of the Buffalo Trace Bourbon which was released later that same year.

The aroma is sweet, with vanilla, Heath candy bars and barrel spices. The palate contains a mixture of brown sugar, honey, caramel, corn, and bready sweetness with charred wood, mint, anise, peppercorns, spiced apples, and tobacco.

The finish is full of New Jersey sweet corn, with the wood and peppercorn flavors also turned-up a little, continuing into the finish.

Knob Creek comes from the Small Batch Bourbon Distillery, which belongs to Jim Beam. This exclusive whiskey is named after a stream that ripples in a picturesque valley south of Louisville. “Small Batch” does not only refer to the size of the batch at distillation, but was introduced by Jim Beam around 1990 – the name stands for rare and exceptional Bourbon and Rye Whiskeys, which are assembled from particularly successful casks in the warehouse.

The Straight Rye Whiskey is composed of a mixture of grains that has not been made public. According to law, however, it must contain at least 51% rye. The duration of storage is also kept secret, which is becoming increasingly popular in the whisky industry.

In terms of taste, Rye Whiskey has the typical rye seasoning, but without being overpowering. Instead, vanilla, brown sugar and butter are also added.

This straight bourbon whiskey has a lively nose of butterscotch, cinnamon stick, licorice and vanilla. These aromas set the stage for a robust palate of cherry, chocolate, bruleed brown sugar and chicory.

The Bourbon Vertical Series is a unique opportunity to follow a group of 1,350 MGP bourbon barrels as they age from four to twelve years, and experience the arc of flavors throughout the nine-year journey.

Every year, Pinhook selects 150 bourbon barrels from the lot and blends and proofs them to create the most balanced expression of the whiskey at that age. The Vertical Series began with the inaugural 4 Year release in 2019, and the journey continues through annual releases up to age 12.

The Rye Vertical Series began in the spring of 2020.

An initial burst of rye spice is immediately followed by a rush of dry, seasoned oak. The dryness continues to ramp up, but as it does, sweeter flavors of raisin, caramel, and burnt brown sugar develop along with a trace of tobacco.

Like the nose, the oak continues to be the dominant flavor, however not so much to completely overwhelm the other flavors present allowing for a good amount of complexity to develop.

In 1738, a brewery was built upon Morangie Farm in the Highlands region of Scotland. A century later, William Matheson acquired the farm and equipped the Morangie brewery with two stills that he purchased second-hand, and renamed the brewery-converted-distillery Glenmorangie.

Since then, Glenmorangie has produced some of the finest single malt whiskies in Scotland. Following distillation, this voluptuously silky single malt, Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban is aged first in bourbon casks for smooth, fruity notes.

It’s then finished in ruby port casks to create velvety depth. The Quinta Ruban port cask finish imparts a chocolate boldness to Glenmorangie’s renowned smooth style. Non-chill-filtered for additional aroma and mouthfeel, it is savored all over the world.

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Distillery with more than 400 year heritage. Triple distillation in copper pot still (traditional Irish distillation method) that produces a lighter, smoother type of spirit. Maturation in American oak casks.

It has no smoky aromas neither in the nose nose nor in the mouth.

Bernheim Original Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey represents the first truly new American Whiskey style to be introduced since Prohibition. Whereas other whiskeys contain primarily corn, barley or rye in their recipes, Bernheim is the only type of straight whiskey which uses soft winter wheat.

The result is a full-bodied, sweet yet smooth whiskey that is produced in small batches and aged to perfection in traditional open rick warehouses. Experience for yourself Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey-America’s first and only wheat whiskey.

Alcohol 45. 0 % by volume.