It’s another Whiskey Hotline episode! Bruce Joseph is the master distiller at Hotaling & Company, formerly Anchor Brewing & Distilling. Hotaling is best known for their Old Potrero ryes.

Bruce started working at Anchor Brewing straight out of college in 1980. He was a brewer for 13 years until they got licensed to distill and he switched over. Fritz Maytag was interested in making rye whiskey, particularly its historical ties to Colonial America. Also he liked taking on products that were unpopular and at the time, rye wasn’t very popular. 

• Old Potrero 6-Year-Old Straight Rye – This is the flagship Old Potrero bottling, aged only in #3 and #4 charred barrels.
• Old Potrero Cask Strength Straight Rye Finished in Single Sherry Cask 8 14 #1 Binny’s Handpicked - Brett picked this one when he was out in San Francisco last year. This one was aged for three years, then went into sherry barrels for 6 months. They were going to bottle it and then Anchor Brewing got sold to Sapporo, so it sat in a tank for a bit. Then it went back into used Old Potrero barrels.

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