Barrell Craft Spirits Tale of Two Islands Straight Bourbon Whiskey

In 2018, Barrell Craft Spirits produced a very limited release of our Tale of Two Islands Rum: a Jamaican Rum matured in peated Islay single malt barrels. To create it, the blending team filled previously used Islay Single Malt Whisky casks with a small amount of Barrell Rum Batch 001. We let it mature and the result was a deeply intense Jamaican rum with just a touch of misty peat smoke. With separate distillation, aging, and finishing influences from Jamaica, Kentucky and Islay, this was a truly unique spirit.

For the Cask Finish: Tale of Two Islands blend, the team took the empty casks that held the Tale of Two Islands Rum, and used them to finish a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys. The sweetness of the rum and the smokiness of the Islay casks mingle together with the underlying bourbon that continues the Tale of Two Islands.

BLEND COMPONENTS:

• Indiana: 5, 6, & 9 years old
• Maryland: 5 & 6 years old

DERIVED MASH BILL:

• Corn: 73%
• Rye: 23%
• Malted Barley: 4%

​A blend of straight bourbon Whiskeys

• Further matured in Tale of Two Islands barrels
• Bottled in Kentucky
• 118.22 proof cask strength bottling