They make no secret about this, placing his signature prominently and proudly on their label: What is unique about Old Elk with regard to the MGP debate is that the young distillery-founded in 2013 and distributing more widely since 2016-hired former MGP master distiller Greg Metze to create their whiskeys. If a bottler is not making their own distillate, but has a knack for picking great barrels, fine-so long as they are honest about it and don’t try to spin their label such to suggest they actually made the stuff. But as more and more bottlers have put out excellent MGP whiskeys, the grumbling among whiskey fans has been gradually ramping down. If a bottle says “Distilled in Indiana,” you pretty much know it was made by MGP. This is a common scenario on contemporary whiskey labels. Per the label, the whiskey is bottled by Colorado-based Old Elk Distillery and distilled in Indiana. So this bottle seemed a good one to introduce me to the Old Elk oeuvre. I like wheated bourbons, and I’ve also liked a number of obscure single grain scotches made from wheat. K&L, a California chain I frequent, also recently came out with a single barrel pick of Old Elk bourbon.īut it was this BevMo single barrel of straight wheat whiskey that compelled me to give Old Elk a go, despite the yikes-level pricing. ![]() ![]() ![]() But two years later, Old Elk seems to have caught the wind in its sails and is showing up in more articles and on more shelves, both in its standard bottlings and as store-pick single barrels like this BevMo selection-number 5 of 5 according to the label. At that time, I couldn’t find terribly much online in the way of reviews.
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