![]() This is a rare and beautiful spirit that’s not likely to ever be made again for a long time. Limited official tasting notes for it are below. That time in wood had an amazing effect on the “light” spirit, imparting incredible vanilla and white chocolate notes. High West 14 Year Light Whiskey, bottled at 46 ABV, is pricing at a rather hefty nearly 100 a bottle if you want one. We were lucky to find 100 barrels of light whiskey produced from corn and aged in 2nd fill barrels. In North America, light whiskey gets blended with heavier straight whiskey to make blended Canadian (about 95+% of all Canadian whiskey) as well as most American blended whiskeys that are not blended straight Whiskeys. It gets blended with heavier malt whiskey to make scotch. A blend of straight bourbon, rye, and scotch whiskey. In the U.K., what they call grain whiskey is more or less the same thing as light whiskey. If you enjoy experimenting with different types of whikeys, you need to try out High West Whiskey. ![]() But since then, I have found 3 other companies in 2019 that I’ve been able to find and try their barrel strength version of Light Whiskey and I must say, that’s where it’s at. It is the “dilutant” in about 95% of the world’s blended whiskeys. Score: 6/10 If High West was the only distillery that sourced MGP’s Light Whiskey, then I would think it was unique and worth buying. However, light whiskey has an important role to play in the world of whiskey. ![]() because we prefer our “heavier” straight whiskeys. However, most light whiskey is distilled to 94.5 ABV so it’s almost NGS! Distilling that high removes almost all the congeners, the chemicals other than ethanol that whiskey lovers call “flavor.” Light whiskey isn’t common in the U.S. At High West, we believe education leads to appreciation so we’d like to shed some light on a rarely discussed type of whiskey… “light whiskey.” Not to be confused with lower calories or an Edison light bulb, “light” denotes a grain spirit distilled between 80-95% alcohol by volume (ABV) – it’s “lighter” than a straight whiskey (which is distilled to 95%. ![]()
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