The straight bourbon is, as Hewlette promised, very good. The six-month-old was the equal of any small-distillery, small-barrel-aged bourbon I’ve had, which is to say, it had the over-oaked taste of 1990s California Chardonnay and a little bit of the green, short-chain tannin of any brown liquor that hasn’t spent enough time oxidizing. But for something that hasn’t been through a traditional aging process, that’s actually kind of impressive.
