Rye is a bratty grain. Fortunately for us we have a significant inventory of exceptionally aged Rye Whiskeys. We challenge ourselves to see if we can take this great Whiskey and make it truly exceptional. We scoured the globe to find some of the most unique and interesting casks available and even developed our own cask using oak straight from our farm. We painfully surrendered some of our Whiskey to rest in these casks and then proceeded with the hardest part of our jobs.
We waited. The results were mixed. Some finishes failed or added nothing. But many introduced new levels of complexity and depth to the Rye. And now The Boss Hog features a new favorite finish with each release. James IV of Scotland r. Whisky production moved out of a monastic setting and into personal homes and farms as newly independent monks needed to find a way to earn money for themselves. Renaissance-era whisky was also very potent and not diluted, and could even be dangerous at times.
Over time, and with the happy accident of someone daring to drink from a cask which had been forgotten for several years, whisky evolved into a much smoother drink. With a licence to distill Irish whiskey from , the Old Bushmills Distillery in the north coast of Ireland is often regarded as being the oldest licenced whiskey distillery in the world.
In , the Acts of Union merged England and Scotland, and thereafter taxes on it rose dramatically. Scotch whisky was hidden under altars, in coffins, and in any available space to avoid the governmental Excisemen.
Scottish distillers, operating out of homemade stills, took to distilling their whisky at night, when the darkness would hide the smoke rising from the stills. For this reason, the drink was known as moonshine. In America, whisky was used as currency during the American Revolution. It also was a highly coveted sundry and when an additional excise tax was levied against it, the Whiskey Rebellion erupted in In , the UK passed the Excise Act, legalizing the distillation for a fee , and this put a practical end to the large-scale production of Scottish moonshine.
In Robert Stein invented an effective continuous still, and in , Aeneas Coffey refined it to create the Coffey still, allowing for cheaper and more efficient distillation of whisky.
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