Frey Ranch Nevada Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review
Founded in 2006 by husband and wife team, Colby and Ashley Frey, Frey Ranch Farmers and Distillers follow a ‘ground to glass’ ethos in the production of their whiskey. Farming goes back 5 generations in the Frey family, back to 1854 to be exact and a full decade before the state of Nevada even existed. The current ranch in Fallon, Nevada dates back to 1920 and today the distillery sites in a 2,500 acre farm of which the family own around 1,500 acres outright. They grow their own non-gmo crops and all milling, malting, distillation, maturation and bottling is done onsite. Although they got a license to distill in 2006, due to Nevada state law they couldn’t sell their whiskey until 2013. Those weren’t wasted years as this time allowed the Frey family to figure out how to grow the grains required, play around with mash techniques and work with different yeast varieties. Distillation wise the first run has the wash going through a column still which brings it to around 40% abv with the sec...
