Charbay Hop Flavored Whiskey, Batch #2

A unique and quite intriguing whiskey. A “bottle ready” California pilsner beer was given an extra dose of hops then distilled in a pot still and aged in new oak for six years. Then it was “aged” in stainless steel for another three years. Five barrels were bottled. When I traveled through Europe some of the breweries let me taste “Hop Schnapps” they’d had a distiller produce from their own beer. It was always just for their own private consumption not for sale. This Charbay release reminds me of that only aged into a mature whiskey. It’s a complex whiskey naturally accentuated by hops exotic teas marijuana (seriously!) candied fruit lavender dark berries raspberry (red and black) juniper freshly ground tellicherry pepper and light Caribbean rum. A nice “change of pace” whiskey.