Hickory Smoked Corn Whiskey

This 100% Colorado corn whiskey is derived from an heirloom yellow corn varietal. It is grown with care and pride for Deerhammer by the Ute Mountain Tribe at an elevation of 6,000’. This corn has been cultivated to thrive in Colorado’s unique and unforgiving Southwest climate, and it brings forth a true taste of place.

Our production methods for this whiskey are rather unique – 10% of the corn is shoveled into a custom-built cold smoker while hickory wood smolders a sweet smoke over the corn for a span of 24 hours.

After milling and smoking, we move on to our traditional sour mash technique which carries forth our ‘house flavors’ and a vigorous start to our 4 day open fermentation.

DOUBLE POT DISTILLED: A true old-world process, we leverage traditional squat-head copper pot stills to carry forward absolute massive flavor from such a unique style of corn, as well as the cold smoke process.

MOUNTAIN MATURED TO PERFECTION: Corn whiskey by US law must be aged in used oak barrels vs. other American whiskey counterparts that begin in new charred oak. We mature this whiskey in our used bourbon barrels at 8,000ft for no less than 3 years.

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