Collaboration Series No. 2
by Garrett Oliver
Pinhook was founded with the ethos of sourcing great barrels of whiskey and taking a creative and unique approach to blending and proofing. The Collaboration Series reflects our commitment to exploring the ever growing craft whiskey movement and “pinhooking” barrels based on experience, quality, a little patience, and a bit of luck.
Edition No. 2 – Garrett Oliver
Garrett Oliver is the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery in New York City. He became friends with Sean Josephs, Pinhook’s co-founder and master blender, as a regular at Char No. 4, Sean’s Brooklyn bourbon bar.
Garrett is probably best known as the author of The Brewmaster’s Table and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer. A professional brewing veteran of more than 30 years, Garrett is also a great enthusiast of bourbon, Cognac, and mezcal. In 2014, he won the prestigious James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, and most recently founded the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling, which awards scholarships for technical education in brewing and distilling to people of color in the United States.
With his 30 years of brewing expertise, Garrett brings an intriguing sensory perspective to our innovative “pinhooking” approach: sourcing great barrels of whiskey and blending and proofing them into exceptional bourbons and ryes.
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Benefiting the Michael J. Jackson Foundation
For the series’ second release, Pinhook has partnered with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery and 2014 James Beard Award winner, to produce an artfully structured high-proof, high-rye bourbon. This special collaboration will fund 20 scholarships in brewing and distilling to people of color through the Michael J. Jackson Foundation, of which Oliver is chair. Blended and proofed from 20 pinhooked barrels out of Still Austin, this release was aged for 4 years in the Texas heat, which speeds aging and results in a whiskey with a maturity that far exceeds its time in the barrel.
Details
- Corn 75%
- Rye 20%
- Malted Barley 5%
- Proof 118.9