Whiskey

War Penny

Corn and rye. A portion of the grain is smoked on cherry wood for 36 hours, aged in new white American oak, then finished in beer barrels from local breweries.

A 1943 steel penny is pressed into the wax of every bottle. That year the U.S. Mint made pennies from steel so the copper could go to the war. Gordon says everybody saved them, and they never became the collector’s item people expected. The farmer who takes their spent grain smokes part of the corn over cherry wood, then they mash it back in.