Rye bread | Fresh cut grass | Touch of lemon | Malt

Rye grain | Light cinnamon | Young oak | Touch of an herbal & mint notes

Rye spice | Pepper | Oak | Malt

Based in Colorado, Axe and the Oak create their Incline Rye with grains sourced from the state before cutting it with Rocky Mountain water. Interestingly, they also blend a small amount of Indiana sourced rye with their own distillate, making you wonder why more young distilleries don’t do the same. The whiskey is a largely straightforward affair that lacks necessary depth, but offsets it with herbal and mint undertones. It will be interesting to see how this whiskey develops over time and they remove the Indiana whiskey from it. Their use of local Colorado grains and water in conjunction with malting the rye grain is as interesting as it is promising.