Cask #0012: Chocolate Malted Barley Whiskey (7 Years) | Heritage Distilling Co.

7 Years Old | 62.3% Alc/Vol | New American Oak Alligator Char | 10% Chocolate Malt / 90% Barley | Gig Harbor, Washington

Chocolate malted barley is normally a brewing ingredient, used in stouts and porters. Heritage Distilling took 10% of it and built a whiskey mash bill around it, and the result is the kind of thing that makes you stop and think for a minute. Dark chocolate comes first, more complex than a straight sweet chocolate, with fresh orange and apricot and a note of fried sage running underneath. Add a few drops of water and a mango sweetness appears. This is the second barrel of this style we have bottled, and this one leans darker and more complex than the first.