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Friday, December 5, 2014

New Whiskey Labels: More from Diageo and Rebel Yell


This week's most interesting new labels from the federal TTB database:

Diageo cleared a label for a new whiskey in their Orphan Barrel series, Forged Oak, a 15 year old Kentucky bourbon.

Luxco cleared a new Rebel Yell label for a two year old bourbon/rye blend that appears to be a combination of Kentucky bourbon and Indiana rye.

Note:  The fact that a label appears on the TTB database does not necessarily mean it will be produced.  In addition, some details on the label, such as proof, can change in the final product.


3 comments:

  1. To quote Wikipedia, "Forging is a manufacturing process involved in the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces" What the f*ck, Diageo? First you're proud of your barrel to bottle cycle, now you claim that you can forge wood?
    If this trend continues of naming bourbons "Past-Tense Verb+Noun semi-related to whisky ", I imagine next year will bring the Orphan Barrel's exclusive, "Falsified Warehouse" release.

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  2. What would this bourbon/rye combination from Rebel Yell comprise? Would it's mashbill be something like 47% corn, 47% rye and 6% malted barley so it simply would be called whiskey?

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  3. It's a combination of bourbon whiskey and rye whiskey. You can't call something bourbon if it contains any rye whiskey (as opposed to rye grain in a bourbon mashbill), even if the mashbill would still work out to 51% corn, so it could well be over 51% corn or over 51% rye, but because it blends both bourbon and rye whiskeys it needs a separate designation.

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