Clear Creek Distillery McCarthy’s Oregon Single Malt Whiskey

$50.00

Country	USA
Region	Oregon
Product Subcategory	Whiskey
Mashbill Type	Single Malt
Container	Bottle
Container Size	750ml

Category: American Single Malt Tag: clear creek distillery

Description

Clear creek distillery

McCarthy’s Oregon Single Malt Whiskey is of the Islay tradition of Scotch whisky. Of well-known single malts from Scotland, it resembles the Lagavulin whisky. Made from peat-malted barley brought in from Scotland, this whiskey would be a single malt Scotch Clear creek distillery if Oregon were Scotland. Production is very limited because what distillery puts in the barrel doesn’t come out for years.

TASTING NOTES

It is very peat-y. Widmer Brothers ferments the peat-malted barley into a “wash” or unhopped beer. This Clear creek distillery whiskey is distilled in Holstein pot stills using one pass distillation. MOreover, distillery makes a small “heads” cut and a fairly large “tails” cut and puts about 4 liters of tails into the next still run. The proof at time of distillation is about 150 (75%). Then distillery reduces in proof and barrel-age the rough distillate in old sherry casks.

All the Oregon Single Malt now spends some time in barrels made from air-dried Oregon Oak. The present bottling is only 3 years old but we think it is remarkably smooth for such a young whiskey. The result is a smooth, peat-y whiskey with a surprisingly clean finish.