You still have time to try some Missouri’s best whiskey.
New Haven, Missouri’s own Pinckney Bend Distillery has limited quantities of field-to-glass heirloom whiskey made from rare, historically important heirloom corn varieties. Right now Hickory Cane, Wapsie Valley and Pipe Corn heirloom whiskey is available at the distillery.
Pinckney Bend launched the Heirloom Whiskey Program two years ago and and these first three expressions were released this past fall in individual 375mL bottles.
Whiskies made from Pencil Cob will be ready in May, and Tennessee Red Cob will follow in October of 2017.
This year the distillery will be growing commercial quantities of Ohio Blue Clarage, Boone County White, and a really ancient landrace variety called Gourdseed Corn, for making whiskeys that will be released in 2019.
Native Americans shared Gourdseed Corn with the earliest white settlers in Virginia and the Carolinas. Gordseed corns were thought to be extinct by the early 1960’s, then were re-discovered on a Texas farm 1985.
