About Wild Turkey American Honey Sting
Wild Turkey American Honey String shares Wild Turkey Real Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey’s high-rye mashbill and patient aging in #4 alligator charred American oak barrels (typically, the degree of charring within a cask is measured on a scale of one to four, with a #1 char referring to casks that have been lightly toasted, and a #4 char referring to casks that have been charred so heavily that the interior resembles an alligator hide).
Blended with real, pure honey, as well as ghost pepper, Wild Turkey American Honey Sting creates the perfect balance of sweet and spice. Ghost pepper is one of the hottest peppers on the planet — scientifically measured at 400 times hotter than Tabasco® sauce — and it lends Wild Turkey American Honey Sting an aroma of Caribbean fruits and peppers. The palate is filled with smoother textures of honey and cooking spices, and leads to a scorching finish that is mellowed by the whiskey’s sweetness.
Wild Turkey American Honey Sting is a hot new twist on Wild Turkey’s original honey whiskey.
Pick up a bottle today and see if you can handle the heat!
About Wild Turkey
Following the end of the American Civil War, the Ripy Brothers returned to their native state of Kentucky and, together, opened a distillery on the slopes of a hill in Lawrenceburg. The distillery operated continuously for nearly fifty years until the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the sale of alcohol in the United States, was ratified. Following the end of Prohibition, the Ripy Brothers Distillery was reopened, and a distillery executive named Thomas McCarthy took samples of maturing whiskey from the distillery on a turkey hunt with a group of friends. The following year, his friends asked him to bring "some of that wild turkey whiskey" on their next hunt, giving birth to the distillery's new name.
Today, Wild Turkey Distillery is stewarded by Master Distiller Jimmy Russell and his son Eddie Russell (together, the pair have over 90 years of experience producing bourbon). "I was born and raised in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky," says Jimmy, "which was a small community when I was growing up, but there were four bourbon distilleries here, and you had families working all the distilleries. You wanted to get in the business. My grandfather and my father, me, and now my son, we've all been in the business."
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