After introducing Australia to Wilderness Trail last year Whiskey Hunt Australia have announced this years Halloween Release - The Rye Zombie! 

Wilderness Trail Distillery, Danville, KY USA

Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey - Sweet Mash

Single Barrel Rye Whiskey

Non-Chill Filtered

Barrel: 753218 #4 Char

Age: 5 years 

Bottled at: Cask Strength 52.63% abv

Mash Bill: 56% rye, 33% corn & 11% malted barley 

Yeast Strain: 921

Barrel Yield: 192

The Bourbon Zombie, aka. Wilderness Trails' Macaulay Minton Barrel Guru (@TheBourbonSwami) along with Founder Shane Baker, helped the WHA crew pick a standout barrel, with the sweet mash goodness Wilderness Rye's have become famous for.  

Wilderness Trail Distillery, located on 163 acres in Danville, KY, is a family-owned business that began in 2012. Co-owners Shane Baker and Pat Heist use their love of whiskey and 28+ years of fermentation expertise to make some of Kentucky’s Finest Bourbon & Rye Whiskey. Wilderness Trail prides itself on locally-sourced grains, its sweet mash process, low-barrel proof entry and non-chill-filtered whiskeys. 

"Our Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskeys are offered as a Cask Strength release. Once our traditional sweet mash process is distilled in our column stills we enter the barrel at the lowest entry proof we know of in Kentucky. We barrel at 100 proof and 105 proof to highlight the balance of the distillate and alternate solubility expression we get from the barrel at a lower proof. We also barrelled at a gradient of proofs between 100 and 120 proof for our first few years before settling into 100 and 105 proof. This is the reason you will find releases of our cask strength Rye varying in proof.

Our three-grain recipe is 56 percent rye, 33 percent corn and 11 percent malted barley. Our rye mash bill is one we created for a broader balance of flavour to offset the typical high ryes commonly found. We use Kentucky-grown Heritage rye from our local KY Proud farm. We enter the new, air-dried #4 char, 53-gallon barrels at 100 proof and 105 proof for our Rye Whiskey and age until maturity in our barrelhouse. We age our Rye Whiskeys on the upper floors of our rickhouses for a minimum of 4 years."

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