Founded in 2010, Kings County Distillery is the first legal New York state distillery since Prohibition, and a bastion of creativity within the whiskey community. Working with primarily New York state grain and traditional Scottish copper stills, Kings County continues to push the limits for high quality craft spirits.
Currently producing a “moonshine” style unaged whiskey, bourbon, chocolate whiskey, and barrel strength bourbon, Kings County has recently released a peated bourbon, which is he subject of this review. Also on the way for Kings County in the near future is a single malt.
Apparently the result of a distillery malt shortage, the Peated Bourbon was a happy accident. Faced with a waning supply of regular bourbon malt, a Kings County distiller grabbed some peated malt to finish the batch. A year later, the spirit was sampled and the results were so delicious they decided to start making that same Peated Bourbon again.
Whatever the story behind this release might be, it seems to be gaining some notoriety, even winning double gold at the 2016 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.…