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- Category Rye
- Country United States
- Region Kentucky
- Distillery Castle & Key Distilling
- Age 4 Year Old
- Style Straight Rye Whiskey
- Alcohol 48.5%*
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The story of Pinhook Whiskey starts in 2014 with its first release. You see, each fall the folks in the newly restored Castle & Key Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, create a single batch of Bourbon and a single batch of Rye. Each release is named after a thoroughbred racehorse coming up in the Bourbon Lane Stables — the horse’s stats are even printed on the labels. So each issuance is a bit different, just like each racehorse is different. It’s a great story and they sell out every year. In 2016 they refurbished the Old Taylor Distillery (mothballed in 1972) and are now bottling their first completely in-house Spirits.
This is one of the coolest ideas EVER. Stay with us on this story… Pinhook has acquired a total of 950 Barrels of Rye Whiskey — 95% rye and 5% malted barley — distilled in Indiana in 2016. Each year they will take fifty casks for a special edition Rye Vertical Series release. If you get one bottle each year, you will follow the same batch of premium Rye Whiskey as it ages from four to twelve years in 2028.
Pinhook Tiz Rye Time just came out and it is the inaugural release — now four years old and bottled at 48.5% ABV. True to form, each release will be named after a thoroughbred race horse.
- Category Rye
- Country United States
- Region Kentucky
- Distillery Castle & Key Distilling
- Age 4 Year Old
- Style Straight Rye Whiskey
- Alcohol 48.5%*
Appearance / Color
Medium Amber
Nose / Aroma / Smell
The nose is strong and sharp with hot notes of orange zest, brittle toffee, and cinnamon.
Flavor / Taste / Palate
The palate builds upon the aromas with added notes of apricot, toasted woods, baking spices, and cracked black peppercorn.
Finish
The finish is long, warm, and spicy.
Medium Amber
Nose / Aroma / Smell
The nose is strong and sharp with hot notes of orange zest, brittle toffee, and cinnamon.
Flavor / Taste / Palate
The palate builds upon the aromas with added notes of apricot, toasted woods, baking spices, and cracked black peppercorn.
Finish
The finish is long, warm, and spicy.
Flavor Spiral TM
About the Flavor Spiral
What does Pinhook Tiz Rye Time taste like?
Back to flavor spiral
The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in Pinhook Tiz Rye Time and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.
We invented Flavor Spiral™ here at Flaviar to get all your senses involved in tasting drinks and, frankly, because we think that classic tasting notes are boring.
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toasted
Pinhook
Tiz Rye Time
Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Pinhooking means purchasing and rearing a foal based on its pedigree and either selling it or turning it into a champ racing horse. The same idea is behind Pinhook Bourbon: they source young Whiskey to mature and blend it into a blue-ribbon sipping Bourbon.
A decade ago there were only 6 brands of Rye Whiskey hailing from Kentucky, nowadays there are more than 50!
Pinhook’s high-proof Bourbon won Gold at the 2019 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, while the Straight Rye Whiskey won Double Gold the following year. In 2021, their Bourbon War Vertical Series 5 Year and the 2021 Flagship Bourbon won a Gold Medal each, with a Double Gold going to their Tiz Rye Time Vertical Series 5 Year. Pinhook is evidently doing something right!
Speaking of breeding winner horses, two of Pinhook’s co-founders have horseracing in their DNA. Jamie Hill and Mike McMahon continue the tradition of their families as third-generation horsemen, owning a bloodstock agency and a thoroughbred racing company. Applying that knowledge to Whiskey just made sense.
Rye - think of it as Bourbon's edgier cousin. It’s known for what many call a spicy or fruity flavor. Rye (distilled from at least 51% Rye) is not on the sweet side and tends to have a spicier body. That’s why the character of a cocktail made from Rye, instead of Bourbon, is drier.
Rye sparked the first revolution after the American Independence. It was called the Whiskey Rebellion, and it arose when the government tried to tax Whiskey and enforce the taxation on distillers. The lesson here? Don't mess with a Whiskey drinker's dram.
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Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Pinhooking means purchasing and rearing a foal based on its pedigree and either selling it or turning it into a champ racing horse. The same idea is behind Pinhook Bourbon: they source young Whiskey to mature and blend it into a blue-ribbon sipping Bourbon.
A decade ago there were only 6 brands of Rye Whiskey hailing from Kentucky, nowadays there are more than 50!
Pinhook’s high-proof Bourbon won Gold at the 2019 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, while the Straight Rye Whiskey won Double Gold the following year. In 2021, their Bourbon War Vertical Series 5 Year and the 2021 Flagship Bourbon won a Gold Medal each, with a Double Gold going to their Tiz Rye Time Vertical Series 5 Year. Pinhook is evidently doing something right!
Speaking of breeding winner horses, two of Pinhook’s co-founders have horseracing in their DNA. Jamie Hill and Mike McMahon continue the tradition of their families as third-generation horsemen, owning a bloodstock agency and a thoroughbred racing company. Applying that knowledge to Whiskey just made sense.
Rye - think of it as Bourbon's edgier cousin. It’s known for what many call a spicy or fruity flavor. Rye (distilled from at least 51% Rye) is not on the sweet side and tends to have a spicier body. That’s why the character of a cocktail made from Rye, instead of Bourbon, is drier.
Rye sparked the first revolution after the American Independence. It was called the Whiskey Rebellion, and it arose when the government tried to tax Whiskey and enforce the taxation on distillers. The lesson here? Don't mess with a Whiskey drinker's dram.
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