Dad's Hat 6 Year Old (That Boutique-y Whisky Company)

Founded in 2011, Dad’s Hat creates an ‘old-school’ pre-prohibition Pennsylvania style Rye - 80% grain, 20% malt (15% barley, 5% rye malt), no corn, and a sweet mash. They use local farms for their grains, temperature controlled fermenters, and perform five to seven day low-and-slow ferments to develop a complex flavour. Their mission is to bring the style back to prominence, or at least to some discerning glasses.

This natural cask strength limited (289 bottles) indie release comes via That Boutique-y Whisky Company, whose illustrated labels have been adding some colour to the whisky world since 2012. It’s part of their baseball card themed USA Series, with the full bottle’s label featuring Dad’s Hat founder and distiller Herman Mihalich as the ‘Pitcher’, wearing – of course – his dad’s hat (a Stetson fedora, itself handcrafted in Pennsylvania).