Lost Lantern recently announced its Summer 2022 collection, featuring seven limited edition single casks from six celebrated craft distilleries from Oregon, Nevada, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California and Texas.
- 2022 Single Cask #5: McCarthy’s 3 Year Old Peated Single Malt Whiskey: McCarthy’s is said to be one of the first American single malts. This heavily peated single malt is made from U.K. barley malted with Islay peat and was fermented, distilled, and aged in Oregon. It was aged for 3 years and 11 months in a second-fill 228-liter Oregon oak cask and yielded 240 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #6: Frey Ranch Distillery Three Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey: Colby and Ashley Frey have transformed Frey Ranch, a fifth-generation family farm in the Sierra Nevada, into a distillery. Frey Ranch grows all the grain for all of its whiskies, making it one of the only true estate distilleries in the U.S. This 5-year-old straight bourbon is one of the first three-grain whiskies ever to come from Frey Ranch. It yielded 96 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #7: Starlight Straight Bourbon Whiskey: Located just across the Ohio River from Kentucky and only about 20 miles from Louisville, Starlight Distillery is part of Huber’s Orchard & Winery. This straight bourbon whiskey was aged for 4 years in a 53-gallon barrel and yielded 208 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #8: Dad’s Hat Straight Rye Whiskey: Pennsylvania has a historic distilling tradition dating back to the colonial era, but by the 1990s, Pennsylvania rye whiskey had disappeared. Mountain Laurel Spirits, better known by its flagship brand Dad’s Hat, has brought this tradition back to life. This rye, Lost Lantern’s first from Dad’s Hat and first from Pennsylvania, was aged in a 53-gallon barrel for 5 years. It yielded 188 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #9: Dad’s Hat Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in a Vermouth Cask: This second Dad’s Hat release was made by finishing its 4-year-old rye for 5 months in an ex-vermouth cask. It yielded 119 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #10: St. George Spirits Single Malt Whiskey: Founded in 1982 and located in Alameda, California, St. George is said to be the country’s first craft distillery. They released their first single malt whiskey in 2000. This expression was distilled on a pot still and aged for 3 years and 10 months in a new oak cask, and yielded 215 bottles.
- 2022 Single Cask #11: Balcones Distilling Single Malt Aged in a Tequila Barrel: Balcones is a pioneer, experimenting with mashbills, barrel finishes, barrel sizes, and new techniques to break new ground. This expression spent 5 years in a used tequila cask that previously held Balcones Rumble and yielded 126 bottles.
“The Lost Lantern Summer 2022 Collection emphasizes comparison, showing the full range of the distilleries we work with and what we as an independent bottler add to that conversation,” explained Lost Lantern Co-Founders Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski. “All seven casks in the new collection are meant to be points of comparison: sometimes to each other, sometimes to previous Lost Lantern releases, sometimes to the distillery’s own releases.”
In addition to the above new single casks, Lost Lantern will be releasing a limited amount of distillery partner exploration bundles. The collections will include multiple releases from a single distillery to help whiskey lovers explore each distillery’s range. Bundles range from $140 – $320.
Single casks are an essential piece of the Lost Lantern model, inspired by the long tradition of independent bottlers in Scotland. Since their debut in October 2020, Lost Lantern has released 29 one-of-a-kind single casks from 16 distilleries from New Mexico, Iowa, New York, Arizona, Ohio, Colorado and West Virginia, among others.
Beginning today (June 8), the Lost Lantern Summer 2022 single cask collection will be available for sale, with prices ranging from $80 – $160, on LostLanternWhiskey.com, Seelbachs.com, and at select retailers in California and Alberta, Canada.
