Chattanooga Whiskey announced the newest release in its award-winning Experimental Single Batch Series – Batch 043: Pre-Prohibition Style.
This commemorative offering celebrates a decade of Experimentation at the company’s Experimental Distillery, which in 2015 became Chattanooga’s first legal production distillery since Prohibition. To honor this milestone, the Chattanooga Whiskey distilling team crafted an “ode” to pre-Prohibition whiskey, designed to simulate the flavors of early 20th century whiskey.
“For this Experimental Batch, our goal was to make a high malt whiskey that was evocative of a specific place and time: Chattanooga, Tennessee, pre-Prohibition,” Grant McCracken, Founding Distiller, said in a news release. “To do that, our distillers used every ingredient and process step to mimic the flavors found in old-world whiskey. Although a lot has changed in the world of farming, malting, whiskey-making, and coopering over the past 100 years, our team relished the challenge to recreate the flavors of bourbon from that era.”
Made from a high malt bourbon mash, this commemorative recipe starts with a unique harder variety of yellow corn – similar to those grown in that time period. Additionally, a blend of multiple slow toasted barleys, spelt, and rye malts were selected to showcase a wider gradient of flavors inherent to heritage malting techniques – including a heritage-style toasted barley malt and a unique acidulated rye malt.
About Chattanooga Whiskey
Starting in 2011, Chattanooga Whiskey challenged the laws and won the right to distill whiskey in Chattanooga for the first time in 100 years. As a result, the Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery was born. The distillery now hosts over 50,000 visitors annually and serves as a hub of innovation and creativity to push the boundaries of craft whiskey. In 2017, the Chattanooga Whiskey Riverfront Distillery opened as the production home of Chattanooga Whiskey’s signature expressions: Chattanooga Whiskey 91, Cask 111, and 99 Rye, as well as their Bottled in Bond Vintage Series, Barrel Finishing Series, and Founder’s Anniversary Blend.
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