750mL / 35% alc. by vol.

 

Tasting notes: blueberry pie, rose, streusel, rye cereal, dried apple Axe Hole Whiskey honors my Minnesota family.

 

This bottle is for my grandma. She may not have descended from outlaws like my grandpa, but her pies were so good they should have been illegal. As a girl, she'd raid the wild blueberry patches in the woods with her sister, eating half the harvest before it ever made it home. The rest became blueberry pie. Those same wild blueberries grow right here in California, so this bottle shares a connection with my family's Midwestern roots in more ways than one.

 

Cocktails: Whiskey Sour, Old Fashioned, Whiskey Mule, Boulevardier, Whiskey Highball

750 mL/42% alc. by vol.

 

Tasting Notes: Raisin bread, cola, malt balls, green apple, blackberry, clove, licorice

 

Local brewers and distillers worked together to craft this grain-to-glass whiskey; a limited-edition spirit soaked in tradition and forged through innovation. Single malt whiskey is distilled from one type of malt (it’s almost always malted barley) under the roof of one distillery. It’s a style commonly associated with Scotch and Irish whiskies but there is currently a movement underway to establish single malt whiskey as its own official category here in the United States. This is a collaboration project with our friends at Firestone Walker Brewing Company. We made a mash with the same premium-quality grains Firestone uses to brew their award-winning beer, sour fermented it with native yeasts and bacteria, and aged the whiskey for over 3 years in charred American oak barrels.

 

Cocktail suggestions: Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Boulevardier, Paper Plane, Sazerac

750mL / 43% alc. by vol.

 

Tasting Notes: cherry, chocolate, caramel, brown butter, toffee, graham cracker, cream soda

 

Working with our neighbors at Firestone Walker, we crafted a unique mash that combines corn with chocolate barley and wheat. That chocolate barley brings bold, toasted flavors to this bourbon—aged three years in #4 char American oak barrels. The name "Axe Hole" traces back to Aaron's great-great-grandfather Bill Kiever, a Prohibition moonshiner whose operation ended when federal agents took axes to his still. This bourbon honors Bill's spirit—though we're keeping things legal these days.

 

Cocktail Suggestions: Old Fashioned, Whiskey Sour, Manhattan, Lion's Tail