Ranger Creek 44 Rye Batch 26; Bottle 463; Spring 2018 17 months age; 94 proof; 100% rye This one is so fun and unique. If I could boil this down to a simple description; all you horse and cattle folks...the smell of sweet feed grain, get that in your head. This tastes like what you would imagine from the smell. Like someone distilled sweet feed into a whiskey. Sweet molasses and grain. Nose: rich butterscotch, hay, green grains, wildflower honey with lemon, black tea leaves, tea olive blossoms, fennel Palate: honey and butterscotch explode into peppery spice, fresh hay and green rye on the mid, herbal mint, then the secondary explosion of rye spice fills the whole mouth. Finish: Leather, sour honey, cracked pepper, bread crust. Definitely a young spirit but a fun and funky exploration. Not your typical rye, much more unique with that big Texas heat and oak influence.
About this bottle
This grain-to-bottle whiskey is made using 100% rye and is aged in used bourbon barrels; as such, technically it is not a rye whiskey, but rather a whiskey made from rye mash. This is aged for 13 months in small barrels. Like the rest of their Small Caliber series, this too is named for a firearm; the Walker Colt .44 itself named for Captain Samuel H Walker of the Texas Rangers and Samuel Colt, the gun-inventor. This is bottled in a 375 ml sized bottle.
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A complex, Texas Rye Whiskey by Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling matured for 19 months in ex-Bourbon barrels. It has an aromatic birth with notes of cinnamon, vanilla, toffee, hints of mint & spices; while a bold life adds notes of clove, nutmeg, currant & tobacco; that led to a long & complex death with a hint of bread crust & caramel. July 2020 / August 2022
[LOOK] Light amber [NOSE] Dried flowers, lavender, rosehip oil, gummi bear, gelatin, mustard seed, some biscotti [PALATE] Really corky, still fairly herbal, never breaks through to caramelized notes, grassy, English tea [FINISH] Short, hay, grassy, green [MOUTHFEEL] Smooth, thin, pleasant feel, not dynamic, lacks movement
Not my thing at all 100% rye mash. Doesn't taste like typical rye in that it's more hay-like or feed grain with an overall rye presence. Some funk in there like slightly off grain dust. sharp taste and mouth feel. Almost hollow? Very young grain flavor.
Batch 16 Bottle 394 Season Winter ‘15 Aged under Texas sun 14 months One of my favorites. Really enjoy what these guys make.
Not a fan of the spice and cinnamon finish. Tastes very young. Not for me. Glad I tried it tho. Won’t be in my collection.
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