Woodford Reserve Cherry Wood Smoked Barley Review

Here we have the 12th release in the master s collection series from woodford reserve.

Woodford reserve cherry wood smoked barley review.

This whiskey is quite bright and brilliant creating an inviting air about it. The concept this year. In recent years woodford reserve has released a malt whiskey that s quite delicious and very approachable for bourbon drinkers with a mashbill of 51 malted barley 47 corn and 2 rye. Rather than using natural malted barley which is used in woodford reserve bourbon master distiller chris morris modified the grain recipe by selecting malt that had been smoked with cherry wood during the kilning process.

Pours a light and sunny glowing copper color complete with sturdy cascading legs and a wobbly posture showing viscosity. The malted barley used in the mash for this particular expression was dried using the smoke from burning cherry wood. In this expression chris morris used malt that been smoked in cherry wood. The mashbill was comprised of two grains 70 corn and 30 malted barley.

Thanks for watching the scotch test dummies. Rather than using the natural malted barley used in woodford reserve bourbon master distiller chris morris instead selected malt that had been smoked with cherry wood. For its 2017 limited edition master s collection bourbon the 12th in the series woodford reserve has gone a little bit off the script. Scott does a quick hitter review on woodford reserve cherry wood smoked barley special release from 2017.

Not only that while most american bourbons contain around 10 15 malted barley this one contains an impressive 30. Woodford reserve master s collection cherry wood smoked barley.