Maxim – The Best American Rye Whiskeys of 2024

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For the first time Lost Lantern decided to focus one of their collections entirely on a region of spirits, their Spring Collection 2024 strictly highlighting Midwestern whiskeymakers. While six highlight single distilleries, the seventh, Far Flung Rye, rises to the top. This Goldilocks solution cherry-picks many of the above single-distillery’s best ryes, all aged between 4-9 years, and blends them to perfection, creating a beautiful rye that we believe is better than the sum of its parts. The multi-distillery up-level rye consists of whiskeys from Cedar Ridge, Middle West Spirits, Starlight Distillery, Tom’s Foolery and Wollersheim.

“The flagship release of our Midwest Collection, Far-Flung Rye encapsulates why we at Lost Lantern are so very excited about Midwest whiskey—it showcases the depth and breadth of flavor that rye whiskey can have,” Lost Lantern co-founder Nora Ganley-Roper tells us. She credits the region’s cooler climates for its nuanced complexity, the lower temps allowing for a slower aging that builds a “delicacy” that’s harder to achieve in the hotter, more accelerated climates of Texas and the south—especially when barreling in virgin oak.

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