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Collaboration Series

In Pinhook’s Collaboration Series, we partner with luminaries working in other sensory-rich fields in a venture that epitomizes the curiosity-based approach Pinhook was founded on: sourcing great barrels of whiskey and meticulously crafting the blend and proof that brings out their finest characteristics. By exploring the possibilities of whiskey from varied perspectives, the Series’ collaborators invariably hit on something new and exciting. With these very limited releases, we continue to expand the possibilities of American whiskey, and pay tribute to the distillers and palates we most admire.

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 2

Garrett Oliver

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 2

Garrett Oliver

For the series’ second release, Pinhook has partnered with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery and 2014 James Beard Award winner, to produce an artfully structured high-proof, high-rye bourbon.

This special collaboration will fund 20 scholarships in brewing and distilling to people of color through the Michael J. Jackson Foundation, of which Oliver is chair. Blended and proofed from 20 pinhooked barrels out of Still Austin. Aged for 4 years in the Texas heat, which speeds aging and results in a whiskey with a maturity that far exceeds its time in the barrel.

Style

Straight Bourbon Whiskey

% Rye

20

% Malted Barley

5

% Corn

75

Proof

118.9

Release Date

February 2023

Barrels

20

Bottles

3,486

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 2

Garrett Oliver

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 2

Garrett Oliver

Garrett Oliver is the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery in New York City. He became friends with Sean Josephs, Pinhook’s co-founder and master blender, as a regular at Char No. 4, Sean’s Brooklyn bourbon bar.

Garrett is probably best known as the author of The Brewmaster’s Table and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer. A professional brewing veteran of more than 30 years, Garrett is also a great enthusiast of bourbon, Cognac, and mezcal. In 2014, he won the prestigious James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, and most recently founded the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling, which awards scholarships for technical education in brewing and distilling to people of color in the United States.

Website

themjf.org

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 1

André Mack

Front and back of pinhook bottle

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 1

André Mack

Our inaugural release in the Collaboration Series reflects our winemaker’s approach to whiskey, inspired by Co-Founder and Master Blender Sean Josephs’ time as a sommelier.

Two batches, five barrels in each, of 10-year-old bourbon pinhooked from Wyoming Whiskey in 2017.

Style

Straight Bourbon Whiskey

% Rye

20

% Malted Barley

12

% Corn

68

Proof

115.3

Release Date

May 2021

Barrels

10

Bottles

1,273

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 1

André Mack

Front and back of pinhook bottle

Collaboration Series

Edition No. 1

André Mack

André Hueston Mack is the founder and award-winning winemaker of Maison Noir Wines and was the first African-American to be named Best Young Sommelier in America by Chaîne des Rôtisseurs.

Sean and André met while working at the lauded New York restaurant Per Se and have been friends ever since. Their collaboration on two five-barrel batches, blended from the ten Wyoming Whiskey barrels Pinhook purchased in 2012, is a tribute to André’s superlative palate, his long-standing friendship with Sean, and the inspiration Pinhook draws from the world of wine.

Website

andremack.com

Collaboration Series Release No. 3
Coming 2024
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