barrels and then finished for a secondary period in peat-smoked barrels and sherry casks. The whiskey is distilled in copper pot stills from a mash bill of American-grown malted barley and fermented with a “custom blend of specialty yeasts,” according to master blender Nick Scarff. It’s bottled at 90 proof and official tasting notes mention candied pecan, red apple, sherry and just a dash of peat smoke.
This partnership comes at a time when the future of American single malt as an official category is looking bright—as we’vehere, the TTB recently proposed a legal definition that should soon be approved. But Co-CEO of Next Century Spirits, Anthony Moniello, views this whiskey as an attempt to shake things up. “Bear Fight was created to challenge the traditional norms of single malt whiskey and rewrite the rules of the American whiskey experience,” he said in a press release.
Time will tell if MacFarlane can help Bear Fight really wake up and move out of hibernation, but for now you can buy a bottle online from
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