Pinhook Vertical Series Rye 8 Year 2024 750 ml

Pinhook's Vertical Series Rye 8 Year is part of an annual release that tracks the same MGP Ingredients rye distillate — a 95% rye, 5% malted barley mash bill — as it ages one more year each release. This barrel batch spent roughly a year in Indiana before moving to Castle & Key Distillery in Kentucky for the rest of its eight years, and it's bottled at cask strength, around 108.4 proof. That proof brings real heat, but underneath it there's a dense spice and dark fruit character that eight years of barrel time built on top of MGP's usual peppery rye backbone. It's a whiskey for people who already track how a specific rye distillate changes with age, not a casual sipper's first rye.

How to drink Pinhook Vertical Series Rye 8 Year

Add a splash of water before you do anything else — at cask strength it needs the dilution to show the fruit under the heat. Neat is for people who want to feel the full 108 proof; everyone else should cut it.

Whisky108.4 proof · Mash bill: 95% rye, 5% malted barley · New charred American oak