Old Carter Rye Batch 12 – 2023

Classification: Straight Rye
Distillery: Undisclosed distillery in Indiana
Mashbill: 95% rye and 5% malted barley
Age: NAS
Proof: 116 Non-chill filtered cask strength
Only 3,210 bottles produced

Old Carter Rye Batch 12 is the kind of pour you pull out when the fire’s cracklin’, the stars are out, and someone just told a lie too big not to toast.

Nose rides in sweet and spicy—caramel, honey, cinnamon, black pepper. Like if your grandma’s pie and your grandpa’s pipe smoke got into a polite fistfight. There’s oak and vanilla in the back, just sittin’ there, noddin’ like old cowhands who’ve seen some things.

Take a sip, and it’s smoother than a snake oil salesman on Sunday. Cherry and fig show up first, arm in arm with a little orange zest and a wink of grape. There’s even a tart pop—like that one time you kissed a saloon girl and she slapped you for being too forward… but not mad about it.

Then the finish moseys on in, long and warm—like your favorite trail blanket after a cold ride. That rye spice just keeps smolderin’, with notes of graham cracker and a whisper of leather, like an old saddle that still remembers better days.

Batch 12 ain’t subtle, and it sure as hell ain’t shy. But if you like your whiskey bold, sweet, and just a little wild-eyed—this one’s sittin’ pretty right next to your firelight.