PINHOOK ARTIST SERIES BLENDED WHISKEY

Pinhook’s Artist Series celebrates the individuality and artistry of each bottling by commissioning an image by a renowned artist, inspired by the whiskey and the story of how it came to be. Bourbon and rye have such distinct flavor profiles and folks at Pinhook were intrigued to experiment with blending their custom Kentucky bourbon and rye mashbills together in the hopes to find a marriage that was more than the sum of its parts. They set out to create a 6 barrel blend, but with no preconceived notion of a specific proportion of bourbon to rye or vice versa.

In order to make the blending process manageable, they limited themselves to 7 barrels of bourbon and 6 barrels of rye, although even that number produced 1,716 possible combinations. After playing around with various ratios, they discovered that the most complexity and balance were found with an equal number of barrels of bourbon and rye. Once they honed in on the ideal ratio they blended numerous iterations, searching for the perfect combination of 3 and 3, and then set out to find the proof that best showcased our two favorite blends. 112 proved to be the magic number.