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Classification: Straight Bourbon
Company: Flag Hill Distillery
Distillery: Flag Hill Distillery
Release Date: Ongoing
Proof: 90
Age: 6 Years
Mashbill: 69% Corn, 14% Oat, 10% Distillers’ Malt, 7% Chocolate Malt
Color: Yellow Gold
SRP: $50 / 750mL (2026)
Light oatmeal | Faint grain | Vanilla powder | Lightly toasted oak | Flan
Light syrup | Allspice | Green peppercorn | Oatmeal raisin cookie | Oak
Chocolate malt | Chewy oak | Dark chocolate | White peppercorn | Oak | Lingering light chocolate
Utilizing oat instead of wheat or rye, plus chocolate malt, Flag Hill Breakfast Bourbon stands out from the distillery’s standard bourbon and rye.
Flag Hill Distillery bills itself as New Hampshire’s oldest distillery, having started distilling in 2004. The first legal distillery in the state after Prohibition, they produce a number of different spirits and wines. The company pivoted to whiskey in 2013, which is when the current owner, Brian Ferguson came on board and later purchased the company in 2015. For their Breakfast Bourbon, the company eschews the typical wheat or rye secondary grain, instead replacing it with oat.
Breakfast Bourbon is a whiskey that has a slow ramp-up to get to its apex. It starts with an aroma that contains lighter scents that focus on faint grain and lightly toasted oak, along with sweeter flan and vanilla powder. A light oatmeal scent aligns with its unique mashbill, which appears more like an oatmeal raisin cookie at the midpoint. Joining in are notes of allspice, green peppercorn, and a light syrup note. The finish is where the bourbon's unique mashbill comes to life with notes of chocolate malt, dark chocolate, and chewy oak pop. White peppercorn and oak join in before stepping aside as a lingering light chocolate note steps in to round things out.
Flag Breakfast Bourbon is a completely different product compared to the company’s standard Bourbon. Adding additional time aging in the barrels, along with focusing on oat and chocolate malt in the mashbill, allows the whiskey to stand out in the company’s portfolio. While the corn grain covers up the oat and malt more than necessary and doesn’t allow them to shine as much as one might like, it makes for a nice deviation from a classic bourbon flavor profile. This is one of the more intriguing whiskeys Flag Hill Distillery puts out, and it shows, as it stands out from the rest of their lineup in a positive way.
The bourbon in review is from Batch #1.
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