Excessive West’s Bottled in Bond Bourbon 2025 Is Right here

Famed Utah mixing home and distillery Excessive West has simply introduced its second bottled-in-bond whiskey. Hitting cabinets nationwide, it’s the primary Excessive West launch made completely from the model’s in-house pot nonetheless bourbon. 

Excessive West Bottled in Bond 2025 is a straight bourbon whiskey, fermented and distilled at Excessive West’s facility in Wanship, Utah. The bourbon was aged for 4 years and 5 months earlier than bottling. Like all bottled-in-bond releases and as mandated by U.S. legislation, it’s bottled at 100 proof (50% ABV). 

The 2025 launch follows the model’s first-ever bottled-in-bond whiskey, a rye that was offered in restricted distribution within the first half of 2024. Though Excessive West is probably finest identified for its rye blends, Director of Distilling Isaac Winter tells us that the model has been producing bourbon “in earnest” since a distillery growth about 5 years in the past. Winter says Excessive West will stay a mixing home in the beginning, citing its use of sourced whiskeys like MGP’s in style 21% rye bourbon. Nevertheless, he’s wanting to craft in-house whiskeys to enhance the lineup, significantly through bottled-in-bond releases that might embrace bourbon, rye, and American single malt.

The 2025 bottled-in-bond bourbon was distilled from a mash invoice of 64% non-GMO yellow corn from Colorado and 36% rye from Idaho. Winter says this specific high-rye recipe permits Excessive West to “play on the fringe of spice” and foster a profile consistent with the “huge, spicy, in-your-face” ethos the model is understood for. Excessive West sources the overwhelming majority of its rye grain from Mountain Malt and Burtenshaw Farms, which employs no-till farming and industrial hemp crop rotation to assist maximize sustainability and carbon sequestration. 

All barrels within the 2025 bottling used the identical mash invoice, however the closing mix was really a composite of whiskey fermented with three completely different yeast strains: two widespread in malt whiskey making, and a non-traditional pressure referred to as S. diastaticus.

“This yeast pressure can metabolize a higher spectrum of sugars than a standard S. cerevisiae, making it helpful within the Scotch whiskey trade the place the usage of added enzymes shouldn’t be allowed,” Winter tells Meals & Wine. “We don’t have that restriction, so the best profit we get out of it’s the wonderful aroma profile.”

After distillation, the whiskey was barreled at 110 proof and aged at roughly 4,000 toes of elevation. Excessive West additionally has warehouses at an elevation of round 7,000 toes above sea degree, the place they’re presently ageing whiskey for future releases.

Based on Winter, that mixture of mash invoice and yeast strains allowed him to create a mix on the intersection of fruity aromatics, rye botanicals, and wooden spice. His tasting notes emphasize a vibrant nostril that begins with these rye-forward scents, together with discernible woody components. The palate is wealthy in honeycrisp apple and baking spices, with the latter taste class break up between wood-forward and cereal/grain notes. (Winter likens it to vivid apple pie filling.) Graham cracker crust and dried fruit kind a spine on the palate, particularly dried cherries and raspberry fruit leather-based. 

Excessive West Bottled in Bond 2025 is a nationwide launch and begins rolling out in late summer time, with on-line gross sales by the model’s web site beginning August 1st. It has an MSRP of $80.