Santa Fe Spirits is releasing its Colkegan Unsmoked Single Malt Whiskey nationwide for the first time ever.
Santa Fe Spirits’ Colkegan Single Malt Whiskey is made entirely from malted barley, distilled, aged, and finished in various oak casks. After distillation, Unsmoked Colkegan was aged for about four years in new American Oak and used bourbon barrels.
“We love experimenting with traditional single malt whiskey to develop new products while honoring the heritage of single malt,” says Santa Fe Spirits founder Colin Keegan. “Our mesquite-smoked Colkegan has won people’s hearts, and we wanted to release a whiskey that would complement our current line-up of American Single Malts, but also stand on its own. Four years ago we made our traditional Colkegan Single Malt Whiskey, but without smoking the malt. We tucked a few barrels of it into a back corner of the rickhouse, aged it in new American Oak, and used bourbon barrels. We’re excited to release it nationwide.”
As a founding member of the American Single Malt Commission, Santa Fe Spirits has helped champion the creation and promotion of American Single Malt Whiskey as an officially recognized category of whiskey. On July 29, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register which formally defined American Single Malt whisky. In the coming months, the TTB is expected to release an official definition of American single malt.
Colkegan Unsmoked is a limited run of approximately 1,500 bottles and is available exclusively at the Santa Fe Spirits Distillery and the Santa Fe Spirits Downtown Tasting Room for $69.99.
