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Copper & Cask Single Barrel Rye, Top Ten Liquors Selection

March 1, 2022 Eric Burke

About a month ago, I had the world’s tiniest cheese fire in my oven. A pizza had dripped a little too much and…poof, up it went. The oven hasn’t really worked correctly since. Which kinda sucks. Nothing like baking something only to hear your oven shut off halfway through.

Well, it finally kicked the bucket yesterday. I shut it off, and it lost power. Never to turn back on. Or so I hope, I hate that oven. But I spent way too much on it to want to get rid of it. But I am doing my due diligence by having a former co-worker of my wife, who happens to be an appliance repair person, come over and pronounce judgment on the soul of the stove. If it can be resurrected, yay! I don’t have to spend lots of money on a replacement. If it can’t, yay! I get rid of something I really don’t like. Either way, I’m going to be both pissed off and extremely happy.

In the meantime, I get to cook outside. My wife had me set up an outdoor kitchen last summer with a propane burner, a pellet grill, and some prep tables. Thankfully, the weather has been above freezing. It may not have been worth it to cook a box of mac n cheese outside if it had gotten too cold. Tonight I’m testing out the pellet grill as an outdoor oven for a pan of lasagna. I’m going on the assumption that using the Yoder as an outdoor oven will work just fine. Even if I do get a bit of a smoked flavor on the lasagna. So if nothing else, I’ll learn some things about my secondary kitchen setup.

If you squint a bit, you could see tonight’s whiskey in the same light. I’d gone into the store looking to grab more of the bourbon that I reviewed last week. But even though I was in the same chain, I was in a different location. I was a bit bummed until I saw this bottle of Copper & Cask Straight Rye Whiskey. It was also MGP, also a store pick, also cask strength. I mean, I was pretty sure that everything would turn out great. I love MGP 95% rye. I love it even more at cask strength. But, who knows right? I’d only had one bottle of any whiskey from the collaboration in the past, maybe that bourbon was a one-off fluke. But I picked it up anyway. If nothing else, I’d learn a bit more about the brand, the store, or both.

Copper & Cask Single Barrel Rye, Top Ten Liquors Selection

Purchase Info: $49.96 for a 750 ml bottle at Top Ten Liquor, Chanhassen, MN

Price per Drink (50 mL): $3.33

Details: 54% ABV. Barrel #: MI-136. Distilled in Lawrenceburg, IN. Filled: Dec. 2015, Bottled: Oct. 2021, 5 years old. Mash bill: 95% rye, 5% malted barley.

Nose: Cedar, mint, almond, and cinnamon.

Mouth: Spicy. Notes of cinnamon, almond, and cedar.

Finish: Warm and medium length. Notes of mint, cinnamon, and cedar.

Thoughts: Cask-strength MGP rye is very possibly my favorite pour. And this was an affordable bottle. Two great things that go great together. I really like this one. Probably not enough to go buy a case of it for the closet, but that mostly comes down to my wife not being nearly the fan of 95% rye that I am. I am hoping to grab a couple more bottles before they are out though.


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