Bottler/Brand: Koval Distillery
Distillery: Koval Distillery
Alcohol Content: 47% vol.
Cask Type: PX Sherry Cask
Cask Number: 2147
Equipment: Type: Single Barrel Wheat Whiskey
Bottling: Non chill-filtered
Coloring: natural color
Origin: USA
Region: Illinois
180 BottlesKoval is Yiddish for "black sheep" – or for someone who achieves something extraordinary. Like the founders of Koval Distillery. In 2008, Robert and Sonat Birnecker hung up their academic careers. The distillery expert and lecturer on distillation and the history professor exchanged books for stills to continue the distillation tradition in Chicago that Robert had learned from his Austrian grandfather. Today, Koval is the largest independent craft distillery in the USA.
Koval distills innovative whiskeys from sustainably grown, mostly unmalted organic grains (often unconventional varieties) from the region. Following the "grain-to-bottle principle," the distillers control the entire supply chain and perform every distillation step themselves. The whiskeys then mature for four years in small single casks. Koval has now bottled three single barrels in a "Limited Edition" exclusively for Kirsch Import customers.
The Rye Whiskey: Distilled from pure organic rye from the region, the fresh palate pleasure is exceptional for the category.
