Full Review

Keeper’s Heart

Keeper’s Heart
Irish + American Rye Blended Whiskey

Category: American Hybrid Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 43%
88 Points
Silver Medal
Highly Recommended
$39

Keeper’s Heart
Irish + American Rye Blended Whiskey

Category: American Hybrid Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 43%
Gold color. Aromas and flavors of black tea, clove and dried orange peel, white pine sawdust, and payday bar with a round, lively, dry medium body and an interesting, medium-length finish with notes of honeyed malt, green apple and citrus, orange tea, and ethanol. A nice jack of all trades Whiskey with grainy sweetness, honeyed fruit, and tea.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Crisp & Lively
Aroma Aroma: black tea, clove and dried orange peel, white pine sawdust, and payday bar
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of honeyed malt, green apple and citrus, orange tea, and ethanol
Smoothness Smoothness:
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Sazerac, Old Fashioned, Manhattan
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A nice jack of all trades Whiskey with grainy sweetness, honeyed fruit, and tea.

The Producer

O'Shaughnessy Distilling Co.

The Producer

American Hybrid Whiskey

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Serve in a Glencairn Ganadian Whisky Glass
American Hybrid Whiskey is a Beverage Testing Institute classification for specialty blended whiskies bottled in the United States. Some spirits producers in the U.S. have started crafting blends of different types or categories of whiskies together to create a unique flavor profile. Examples include products made from Single Malt Scotch Whisky blended with a high-rye Bourbon, or a 50/50 blend of straight bourbon and straight rye. Under federal TTB regulations these whiskies would fall into the 'Blended Whiskey' or 'A Blend of Straight Whiskies' categories , but BTI gives these products the Hybrid Whisky category designation to better capture their producers' experimental intents to delineate them from the younger, lower-priced blended whiskies that often include neutral grain spirits and/or added coloring or flavoring.

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