Old Elk by Greg Metze
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Old Elk is a craft distillery founded by master distiller Greg Metze in Fort Collins, Colorado, producing a range of straight bourbon and wheat whiskeys built on a high-wheat mash bill. Metze, who spent decades at MGP before establishing Old Elk, employs a slow cut distillation method designed to concentrate sweeter congeners. The core Wheated Bourbon 5 Year Old anchors the range, while the Master's Blend Series Double Wheat Straight Whiskey foregrounds wheat as both the primary and secondary grain. Cask finishing drives much of the portfolio, with expressions rested in Sherry, Armagnac, and Port casks following initial barrel aging. The Infinity Blend Limited Release layers multiple mash bills together, while the single-barrel Flask Exclusive bottlings, including the Cask Strength No. 1426 and the 6-year Sweet Candy Wheat Whiskey, represent the distillery's highest-proof, most individuated releases.
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Old Elk is a craft distillery founded by master distiller Greg Metze in Fort Collins, Colorado, producing a range of straight bourbon and wheat whiskeys built on a high-wheat mash bill. Metze, who spent decades at MGP before establishing Old Elk, employs a slow cut distillation method designed to concentrate sweeter congeners. The core Wheated Bourbon 5 Year Old anchors the range, while the Master's Blend Series Double Wheat Straight Whiskey foregrounds wheat as both the primary and secondary grain. Cask finishing drives much of the portfolio, with expressions rested in Sherry, Armagnac, and Port casks following initial barrel aging. The Infinity Blend Limited Release layers multiple mash bills together, while the single-barrel Flask Exclusive bottlings, including the Cask Strength No. 1426 and the 6-year Sweet Candy Wheat Whiskey, represent the distillery's highest-proof, most individuated releases.
