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Jamaican rums aged in peaty Scotch casks, bourbon finished in ice wine casks, and rye whiskey finished in Martinique rhum, sherry, and apricot brandy barrels. Since its founding in 2013, Barrell Craft Spirits (BCS) has proved that experimental blending and cask finishing can create spirits greater than the sum of their parts.  For the brand’s latest Red Label Series release, though, it embarked on a slightly less adventurous — but no less delicious — endeavor to craft a 12-year-old bourbon blend finished in slow-toasted American oak barrels. Barrell Craft Spirits new whiskey is a blend of bourbons made in Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. Courtesy Barrell Craft Spirits To create this limited-edition release, the BCS team hand-picked barrels of bourbon ranging from 12 to 15 years in age from distilleries in Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. (The brand discloses only the states and countries of its sourced liquor, but not the specific distilleries that made it.) After carefu...