Cut Spike Single Malt Whiskey - Wine & Spirits Magazine

Cut Spike Single Malt Whiskey


Here’s an unusual one: a single malt whiskey made in the Sandhills of Nebraska. While it’s barely two years old, it’s already showing a depth more common in much older spirits, with sweet woodsy scents, poached pear flavors and butterscotch notes rounded out with a toasty brown-butter-like richness. Distiller Mike Cunningham makes it with 100 percent malted barley that is fermented at Cut Spike’s sister company and brewery Lucky Bucket. I imagine this whiskey will get even better in the coming years, as the distillery develops older stocks, but even now it’s delicious.

Spirits Type:

Whiskey

ABV:

43%

Importer:

Cut Spike Distillery, La Vista, NE

Price:

$60


This story appears in the print issue of December 2014.
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