Old Potrero

- SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES -

OLD POTRERO IS AN HOMAGE TO THE ORIGINAL WHISKIES OF AMERICA, AND MARKED THE RETURN OF POT-DISTILLED WHISKEY IN THE UNITED STATES

OLD POTRERO’S RANGE OF 100% MALTED RYE WHISKEY | Old Potrero is our take on America’s original whiskey. It is made from 100% Rye malt mash (the grain of choice for America’s first distillers) that is double distilled in small pot stills at our Hotaling & Co. Distillery at Pier 50 in San Francisco.

LEFT | The Hotaling & Co. Distillery in San Francisco. TOP | Master Distiller Bruce Joseph oversees the distillation of Old Potrero and Junipero Gin.

#6 MOST INFLUENTIAL SPIRIT OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

- David Wondrich on Old Potrero Single Malt Whiskey -

OLD POTRERO STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY 6 YEARS-OLD This straight rye whiskey was aged in new handmade fine grain charred American oak barrels. In traditional barrel making, the cooper heats the staves over a fire of oak chips, allowing them to be bent and formed into a barrel. During this process, the inside of the barrel becomes lightly toasted. By the early 19th century, coopers had learned that if they allowed the heat to continue, the inside of the barrel would burst into flames and become charred. Handmade oak barrels—charred in this traditional manner—impart a rich color and unique character to this rye whiskey. 48.5% ABV

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OLD POTRERO SINGLE BARREL RESERVE STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY The barrels were constructed of new, extra fine grain American Oak. The wood was air dried for 24 months and the barrels were fully toasted and then charred by hand over an oak fire. The mash of 100% malted rye was fermented for four days and then double distilled in traditional copper pot whiskey stills. APPROXIMATE 62.8% ABV

OLD POTRERO RESERVE SINGLE MALT RYE The distillers at Hotaling & Co. present this whiskey in commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and in celebration of the city’s remarkable rebirth. In 1906, earthquake, fire and dynamite ravaged San Francisco, claiming 28,188 buildings and an incalculable number of lives. After the disaster, several clergymen asserted that the catastrophe had been divine retribution, visited upon the City by the Bay for its sinful ways. Thanks in part to the pluck and ingenuity of its staff, however, A. P. Hotaling & Co.’s Jackson Street whiskey warehouse survived. And so, “while millions of dollars worth of normally non-inflammable material was reduced to ashes,” the Argonaut observed, thousands of “barrels of highly inflammable whisky were preserved intact in the heart of the tremendous holocaust.” This unusual whiskey has been aged a minimum of 11 years in once-used, charred oak whiskey barrels. Many of the finest Scottish “single malts” are aged in the same manner. The method of producing this Whiskey is identical to the other Old Potrero whiskeys—it is a pot-distilled spirit from a mash of 100% malted rye. Only the barrel aging is different. It is double pot-distilled from a 100% malted rye mash. 50% ABV