Baking spice | Brown sugar | Toasted oak | Chocolate

Dark brown sugar | Cinnamon bark | Sweet charred oak | Baking spices

Whoppers candy | Cinnamon sugar | Sweet molasses | Sweet oak | Cola

Mile High Spirits’ Fireside whiskeys have been notable right from the start, which is no small feat for an upstart craft distillery. The combination of how they distill and the grains they use have resulted in whiskey that tastes wholly unique. But another new element to their whiskeys is age, and Mile High Spirits isn’t afraid to take whiskey drinkers along with them on their journey. We’ve tasted their bourbon at 4 years old,5 years old, 6 years old, and now at 7 years old, and it’s inspiring to experience how their whiskey continually gets better.

Fireside Straight Bourbon Single Barrel 7 Year starts with a rush of sweetness to its aroma that is led by baking spices, brown sugar, toasted oak, and chocolate. That sweetness continues throughout the sip, with the palate highlighting dark brown sugar, cinnamon bark, sweet charred oak, along with Whoppers candy, cinnamon sugar, and sweet molasses on the finish. Though those same flavors in some bourbon can be dry or savory, Fireside Straight Bourbon Single Barrel 7 Year is sweet, sweet, sweet.

This particular single barrel also hit HAZMAT proof at 142. Wrangling in this proof isn’t a one-off thing for Mile High Spirits as they have a section on their website dedicated to this proof threshold. Though this bourbon drinks hot, its strong flavors, spearheaded by their sweetness make it work so well.  

The bottle in review comes from barrel 17f29.br.c16.