![]() High West Double Rye (all bottlings): 8.70 ± 0.32 on 21 reviews ($$) High West American Prairie: 8.35 ± 0.59 on 11 reviews ($$$) Here is how the various High West products stack up in my Meta-Critic Database: This is as low as I’ve seen Campfire in my travels, adjusting for currency fluctuations. Indeed, the LCBO is one of the cheapest places in Canada to buy American whisky. My batch is 19H16 (so, bottled August 16, 2019), and is thus presumed to have some of the actual High West rye juice in the bottle.Īs an aside, although the LCBO doesn’t have the widest selection of American whiskies, what they do get is available at very good prices typically. I picked up a bottle recently for $70 CAD. It is all aged in a mix of charred virgin white American oak barrels, as well as refill bourbon barrels All whiskeys were reported as at least 5 years old originally, but High West now claims “ranging in age from 4-8 years old” (the reduced minimum age likely reflects addition of their own juice). And the blended malt Scotch whisky is 100% peated malted barley (undisclosed origin, but High West claims it is not Islay malt). But High West recently adjusted the recipe to include some of their own-make rye, which is reported as 80% rye and 20% malted rye (relative proportion of the different component whiskies is unknown). The rye was originally all from MGP, 95% rye and 5% malted barley. In this Campfire blend, the mash bill for the MGP bourbon is 75% corn, 20% rye and 5% malted barley. The main source for most of High West’s American whiskies is MGP – specifically, the Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana plant, which was formerly Seagrams. That’s certainly an unusual mix – I don’t think I’ve seen American bourbon or rye blended with peated malt whisky before (e.g., Westland Peated is an actual peated malt whisky made in the USA). The latest (first?) High West product to reach the LCBO here in Ontario is Campfire – a blend of peated Scotch malt, straight bourbon and straight rye whiskies. I’ve tried a couple of different bottlings over the years, and have generally been impressed with the quality for the price. They offer a range of innovative products, many of which are largely based on blends of sourced products, while they wait for their own distilled whisky to mature. The Utah-based distillery High West has rapidly made a name for themselves among American whisky enthusiasts.
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