A.D. Laws Four Grain Finished in Ruby Porto Casks Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Crafted from all four of the “American mother grains”: corn, wheat, barley and rye. There aren’t many four grain bourbons on the market as they are very difficult to make. They utilize a stepped cooking process — each grain variety requires a different cooking temperature to maximize its flavor and character. The grain requiring the most heat is milled in and cooked first; the temperature is then lowered gradually as they add the smaller flavor grains, and then complete the cooking process with the malts. This painstaking, 6.5 hour, labor-intensive process is critical to capturing the character and quality of each grain.

A.D. Laws Four Grain Finished in Ruby Porto Casks Straight Bourbon Whiskey Tasting Notes

Nose: The nose on this bourbon starts off on the moderately sweeter side, like red apple with caramel and a touch of nutmeg. That yields to earthier aromas of molasses, oak smoke, fortified wine, and salt, with the smoke and wine attributes building in strength over the next few seconds.

Palate: The port-cask finish certainly makes an impact on the Four-Grain Straight Bourbon, as is evident from a salty, slightly sour taste that makes its way onto the tongue in the first sip. That influence comes off as a salted caramel flavor when this whiskey first hits the tongue with notes hay, yeast, wheat and cloves coming together to give it a spicy sour flavor overall. The wheat and cloves build up more and more as this whiskey sits on the tongue into a spicy-sweet combination.

Finish: Swallowing sends a burst of sweet, slightly spicy wheat through the mouth followed by the clove building back up into a mild burn, before fading back to a slightly salty caramel sweetness that lingers on the tongue.

Distillery Information

AD Laws Distillery is centrally located in Denver Colorado in the historic Gates Neighborhood. It’s here where Al Douglas Laws, founder and creative visionalry behind Laws Whiskey House, takes an obsessive, hands-on approach to every aspect of whiskey production as he mills the grains, combines them and cooks them to create an incredibly complex sour mash.

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