Straight Triticale Whiskey — Bottled in Bond
A Grain Most Distillers Never Touch
Samuel Maverick Straight Triticale Whiskey is built on triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye developed in the nineteenth century. Aged more than four years and bottled in bond at 100 proof.
Triticale is rare in American whiskey. It carries the soft body of wheat alongside the spice of rye — a combination that would otherwise require blending two mash bills. Using the hybrid grain gets there in one.
Wheat softness, rye spice, one grain
Bottled in bond at 100 proof after more than four years in oak, this is a whiskey that shows what a single unusual grain can do when it is given time rather than blended into the background.
Colour, nose, palate and finish for this expression have not been supplied yet. Once Maverick provides them they will sit here in the same four-row format used on the in-distribution pages.
What Is Triticale?
Triticale is a cross between wheat and rye, bred to combine the yield of wheat with the hardiness of rye. Agriculturally it is well established; in distilling it remains uncommon.
For a distillery built on the idea of questioning convention, an overlooked grain is an obvious place to look. Meeting the bottled-in-bond standard on top of that — one distilling season, one distillery, four years minimum, 100 proof — puts a rare grain inside the strictest framework American whiskey has.