Gryphon & Grain Bourbon Whiskey 750 ml

Bourbon Tasting NotesColor:
Tawny/Auburn

Nose:
Brown sugar, toast, grain, dark fruits

Body:
Full and chewy

Palate:
Peanut brittle, vanilla, leatherbound books, finishes with almond and cola

General:
Comes off nearly sweet, but beautifully balanced. Its powerful, but gracefully gentle, like Muhammed Ali petting a kitten. Pairs well with an elegant, yet sultry evening.

100%Northern California grown, distilled, aged and bottled
4-5 Years

QUICK FACTS

All ingredients are Northern California estate grown:

Bourbon mash bill: Mapes Ranch red corn, malted two row barley, red wheat
Rye Mash bill: Merced Rye, Mapes Ranch yellow corn, malted two row barley
Ingredients are hammer milled to a coarse grain.

Loaded into the mash tun, heated to become wort.

Transferred, still on grain, into the fermenter where the sugars are converted to alcohol.

The whiskeys are double distilled with a 550 gallon 4 plate short column pot still allowing for a more full bodied whiskey Both the Bourbon and Rye are aged using a charred tight grain proprietary blend of new French and American oak barrels

The Central Valley barrel house seasonal temperature enhances the extraction of the oak flavors with swings from a low of 50 to a high of 110