Robert_McKay
Hard Truth High Road Rye
Rye — Indiana, USA
Reviewed
April 13, 2025 (edited April 15, 2025)
I got this bottle at Kelly Liquors in the Mountain Run shopping center, where it cost me $45.99. The mash bill is 55% rye (which makes it almost a barely legal rye), 36% corn, and 9% sprouted barley. This whisky is 93 proof, according to the label it's "over" three years old, and in the glass the color is mahogany.
π‘π’π¦π: Honey butter, with a generic floral note, and something vegetal which made me think of mullein.
π π’π¨π§πππππ: Creamy.
π§ππ¦π§π: On the palate I immediately got honey with brown sugar and red pepper. There were oak and smoke underneath that, and then stronger notes of cinnamon and dark chocolate appeared.
πππ‘ππ¦π: This is, alas, short, but delicious. It gives notes of red pepper, black pepper, and dark chocolate.
π¦π¨π π ππ₯π¬: This is excellent whisky. I could wish for a longer finish - this one fades out too quickly - but it tastes so good, as does the whisky overall, that I won't complain. This is a different mash bill from the Sweet Mash Rye (that's 96/4), and it tastes different; moreover the lower proof results in a different experience. I can't decide which I like more, though the higher proof might tip me toward the Sweet Mash. But this is, as I say, excellent, and I'll definitely buy it again.
π₯ππ§ππ‘π: On my hick scale (8 levels, with 8 as the highest) this comes in at 7, Right Fine. That's the same as 4.375 stars, 87.5/100, or 8.75/10.
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