Whiskey Michter's US ★ 1 Toasted Barrel Finish Bourbon

Introduced in 2014, Michter’s US★1 Toasted Barrel Finish Bourbon is a unique whiskey. It starts with Michter’s US★1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon, then aged further in a second, custom-made barrel. This barrel uses 18-month air-dried wood, toasted but not charred. The result is a distinctive, delicious Kentucky Straight Bourbon, with no additives, just the extra aging in a toasted barrel.

Campfire smoke and cinnamon aromas with pecan and candied fruit notes. Long finish with baked pears, vanilla, and marshmallow flavors.

Originally known as Shenk's and later as Bomberger's, the whiskey company which ultimately became known as Michter's was founded by John Shenk, a Swiss Mennonite farmer, in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania in 1753. In its earliest days, Shenk's produced whiskey from rye grain, a favorite local crop in the Pennsylvania Blue Mountain Valley where the distillery was located.

According to Pennsylvania historical lore, commemorated by the Lebanon Valley Coin Club in 1978, this particular rye whiskey was so valued that when the Revolutionary War broke out, General George Washington visited the distillery and purchased whiskey to fortify his men as they hunkered down in their camp through the long, brutal winter at Valley Forge. Over 200 years later the Michter's Pennsylvania management would say Michter's was "the whiskey that warmed the American Revolution."

In the mid-1800s, Pennsylvania Dutchman Abraham Bomberger purchased the distillery and it became known for many decades as Bomberger's.