Whisky Review: Cooper Spirits Lock, Stock, & Barrel 20-Year Rye
Whisky Review: Cooper Spirits’ Lock, Stock, & Barrel 20-Year Rye
Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a review sample by The Cooper Spirits Company. This in no way, per our editorial policies, influenced the final outcome of this review. It should also be noted that by clicking the buy link towards the bottom of this review our site receives a small referral payment which helps to support, but not influence, our editorial and other costs.
Bourbons and ryes with age statements more than 15 years have divided the whiskey community. While there have been ryes aged 21 years and higher, Cooper Spirits is one of the first to release a 20-year-old specifically. On that note, Coopers Spirits’ Lock, Stock, & Barrel 20-Year Rye is limited to 3,000 bottles.
The Cooper Spirits Company Launches Lock, Stock & Barrel 20-Year Rye Whiskey
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The Cooper Spirits Company, an independent, family-owned supplier of integrity-driven spirits, today unveils the ultimate bottling for whiskey collectors and enthusiasts alike with the Lock, Stock & Barrel 20-Year Rye Whiskey. The only US made 20-year old rye whiskey currently available on the market, the Lock, Stock & Barrel 20-Year is sourced from Alberta Distillers Ltd. barrels that were hand-selected by late spirits luminary, and third-generation distiller Robert J. Cooper. It’s made from a rare mash bill of 100% rye grain in copper pot stills, and a “robust cut” is then selected and aged in cold weather in newly charred – not toasted – American oak barrels. Created for the demanding spirits connoisseurs and collectors, the acclaimed Lock, Stock & Barrel series derives from The Cooper Spirits Company’s vast library of whiskey stocks in which all of the barrels were specifically s