Capital Liquors Project 5 Year Old "K&L Exclusive" Heavily Peated American Single Malt Whiskey

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Gregory Miller, a chemical engineer and professor of distillation at UC Davis, operates the smallest legal distillery we've ever seen. The fully licensed and bonded distillery and 'rickhouse' sit just a few steps from the front door of his home on the western edge of Davis, CA. The tiny pot still is handbuilt and of his own design - a project that came into being after his lab purchased a very expensive teaching still that wasn't up to his rigorous standards. Rather than just moonshine as a hobbyist, Mr. Miller took the extra step of licesning his project and becoming the first legal distillery in Yolo County long before the modern craft boom got booming. But he never set out to run a fully operational distillery in a business sense. He doesn't have production goals, he's not in a hurry, he doesn't have investors that need to be paid back, and he definitely doesn't distill every day. In fact, there are only 6 barrels in the 'rickhouse' (5 now that we bought this one). He has made rye, bourbon, single malt, and a number of other interesting experimental batches of liquor. It takes roughly 40 individual mashes and distillation runs to fill a full sized 53 gallon barrel. Water comes from the well on his property and the distillery and barrel room regularly tops 100+ degrees in the summer months and drops near freezing in the winter. This incredible 5 year old single malt is made from 100% Scottish Bairds Heavily Peated Malt - purchased in 25KG sacks and mashed one at a time.