“I also knew that… I needed about 15% rye to get that spice characteristic. “I knew from experience that to get the smooth and easy part, I had to get the malted barley content way up,” Metze explains. The result was nothing like MGP’s typical offerings. “I’ve produced many, many products for many, many brands, but that was the first opportunity I had to actually craft a custom mashbill from the ground up, unrestricted,” he says. Rather, he wanted Metze to come up with something unique and original, the only guideline being that it had to be “smooth and easy.” Surprisingly, Metze had never had such a request. The difference was that he didn’t want to use any of their existing mashbills. Metze’s relationship with Old Elk and its founder, entrepreneur Curt Richardson, started in a manner typical of new brands-Richardson went to MGP looking to source some distillate. Metze and MGP were so intertwined that when the distillery started bottling its own whiskeys in 2015, the first release was called Metze’s Select. If you see a rye whiskey with a 95% rye/5% malted barley mashbill, odds are it was distilled at MGP. MGP is the distillery behind the original bottlings from some of the most popular and acclaimed brands in America, including Bulleit, Angel’s Envy, High West, and Templeton, to name a few. Metze worked for close to four decades at the MGP distillery (formerly known as LDI) in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and was their master distiller for 15 years starting in 2002. You may not know Old Elk master distiller Greg Metze by name, but if you drink American whiskey, you’re familiar with his work. Greg Metze hones his whiskey-making craft in Fort Collins
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