Stillhouse put their Original Whiskey in a stainless steel can so you could refrigerate it and serve it cold as a shot, but Stillhouse Black works well at room temperature. On the nose and in the sip, Stillhouse Black Bourbon hits all of the bourbon highlights: caramel, vanilla, a bit of tannic oak…Because of the charcoal filtering, it has a soft, round mouthfeel and is extremely easy to drink neat. This is a mellow bourbon first, cup of Starbucks second. Because of that last step, I expected to find coffee characteristics in every corner of this whiskey, but that’s not the case at all. Then they rested the bourbon on coffee beans (apparently G-Eazy is a coffee fanatic who grinds his own beans every morning). Stillhouse took a traditional Tennessee approach to whiskey, using mostly corn in the mash bill, aging it in charred new oak barrels before charcoal filtering it to provide a distinctly mellow taste.
Get your mint chocolate chip buzz on if that’s what you want.Īnyway, back to this particular can of whiskey. I’m not sure how the world produced a mint chocolate whiskey before a coffee bourbon, but whatever. I’m a sucker for good packaging, so I’m automatically intrigued when I see the can of Stillhouse Black Bourbon, which is “mellowed” on coffee beans.Īpparently, this is the first bourbon to be rested on coffee beans.
All of them are packaged in these slick cans, which look like a cross between an old school Stanley flask and a gas can.
I’m listening to a lot of G-Eazy right now, the Bay Area rapper who was once famously referred to as “the James Dean of hip-hop,” not because he’s on my most played list (there’s a whole lot of talk about having sex with other people’s girlfriends that I simply can’t relate to), but because he’s the creative director behind Stillhouse Spirits, which makes a handful of whiskies in Tennessee, from an unaged recipe to a far out mint chocolate chip-flavored whiskey.