Review: Chicken Cock Wheated Bourbon

Chicken Cock is known for some exotic and complicated whiskeys, but today’s release is one of the most easily understandable offerings in its lineup to date.

Chicken Cock Wheated Bourbon is the first-ever wheated bourbon from the line, made from a mashbill of 68% corn, 20% wheat, and 12% malted barley. The Kentucky distillate, sourced from Bardstown Bourbon Company, is aged for a minimum of five years in level 4 charred oak barrels.

Chicken Cock Wheated Bourbon Review

Wheated mashbills are well-known for offering a kinder, softer drinking experience, and this five-year-old is no exception. The nose is immediately sweet and quite pretty, with notes of cookie dough and fortune cookies — lots of vanilla and a sprinkling of spices making for a lively, lifted attack. Baked apples and pie crust continue the theme, with more smoldering clove notes building with ample time in glass.

The palate is more full-featured than you might expect from the above description, those vanilla notes becoming dominant and veering into cream soda, with overtones of almonds and cinnamon providing a holiday vibe. The texture of the whiskey is chewy and taffy-like, tempered with mint but ultimately calling back to brown butter, sweetened coconut, and some late-game strawberry. It’s as soft as all get-out, the finish plush with powdered sugar and caramel. You’ll have zero complaints with this serving as the base of your old fashioned or whiskey sour, but straight sippers are likely to want something with more punch.

94 proof.

B+ / $55

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