Journeyman Distillery Bilberry Black 750 ml

Journeyman Distillery Bilberry Black is a whiskey made from malted barley, wheat, and rye, aged a minimum of two years in new American oak, then finished in barrels that previously held bilberry wine, a foraged, blueberry-like fruit used in the finishing wine. That bilberry wine finish is the defining trait, adding dark fruit character on top of the whiskey's base grain profile, a technique Journeyman uses across several finished expressions from its Michigan distillery. Expect dark fruit and spice layered over oak, with a deep, dark color from the fruit-wine cask influence. It's built to be more distinctive than a standard finished whiskey given how unusual the bilberry wine cask is. This bottle suits whiskey drinkers who want a genuinely different fruit-cask finish rather than the usual sherry or port.

How to drink Journeyman Bilberry Black

Pour it neat or on the rocks to taste the dark fruit character from the bilberry wine casks clearly, or build it into a whiskey sour where that fruit note adds an extra layer. Either serve shows off the finish.

WhiskyMash bill: malted barley, wheat, and rye · new American oak, finished in bilberry wine barrels · Three Oaks, Michigan