Distillery: Starlight Distillery
Proof: 92
Age: 4 Years
Mashbill: Blend of 60% Corn, 20% Rye, 20% Malted Barley & 51% Corn, 20% Rye, 20% Malted Barley, 9% Wheat
BACKGROUND: 20 minutes outside of Louisville, Kentucky Starlight, Indiana is the home to the family owned Starlight Distillery. Running back 8 generations, currently run by father Ted & his two sons who have been making quite the name for themselves over the past few years. Known for their “sweet mash” technique, with barrels dry aged for a minimum of 2 years, up to 4. Named after the Grandfather of 6th generation co-owners Greg & Ted, the Huber’s felt it only fitting to title this signature blend after their 4th generation grandfather “Carl T” who had a love for bourbon.
NOSE: A very soft/light and standard bourbon whiskey nose with scents of vanilla, caramel, oak, and some slight rye spice (20/25)
PALATE: A very sweet flavor profile with notes of caramel, banana bread, vanilla, and oak sugars. The overall profile is very thin but sweet and balanced (33/40)
FINISH: Short in length with notes of oak and rye and some slight barrel char (20/25)
VALUE: With a $35 SRP you can't go wrong for a sweet and enjoyable whiskey (9/10)
Overall: 82/100
FINAL THOUGHTS: This is the perfect budget bourbon that can be enjoyed time and time again. An overall sweet whiskey with smooth flavors
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Similar & Slightly Worse Whiskey: Horse Soldier Straight Bourbon
Scoring Legend:
96-100: The perfect dram, juice of the gods
90-95: Near perfect, truly incredible whiskey
85-89: Amazing whiskey, will always try to keep a backup bottle of this
80-84: Very good, some minor flaws here or there
75-79: Good, quite enjoyable to drink, Will try and keep a bottle on the shelf
70-74: Solid, wouldn’t go out of my way to get this
60-69: Decent, would offer this up to non whiskey drinkers
50-59: Not my cup of tea
Below 50: Give away
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