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Lost Lantern Single Cask #6: McCarthy’s 6 Year Old Oregon Peated ASM

Lost Lantern Co-Founders Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski launched their endeavor to shine a light on smaller American distilleries, collaborating with them on limited-run and single-cask releases. It shouldn’t surprise that their project with McCarthy’s, the Godfathers of American single malt, would be such a stunner. Nora and Adam walked Clear Creek Distillery’s rickhouses with McCarthy’s Master Distiller Joe O’Sullivan and Head Distiller Caitlin Bartlemay searching for the perfect cask for their collab and decided upon a McCarthy’s 6 Year Old Oregon Peated American Single Malt, distilled in Clear Creek’s Portland distillery, aged in third-fill Oregon oak in Portland and Hood River.