DISTILLERY RESERVE SERIES
For the 20th installment in our Distillery Reserve Series, Austin artist Jeff Skele created a label that pulls from the past without asking permission. Familiar shapes, strange characters, and fragments of earlier releases collide into something that feels equal parts memory and mischief. The longer you look, the more it reveals. Inside this bottle is a Four Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey bottled at 108 proof. Rich and balanced, it opens with warm sweetness, moves into soft spice, and finishes with layered oak that lingers longer than expected.
Here’s to twenty more.
Here’s to twenty more.
For the 20th installment in our Distillery Reserve Series, Austin artist Jeff Skele created a label that pulls from the past without asking permission. Familiar shapes, strange characters, and fragments of earlier releases collide into something that feels equal parts memory and mischief. The longer you look, the more it reveals. Inside this bottle is a Four Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey bottled at 108 proof. Rich and balanced, it opens with warm sweetness, moves into soft spice, and finishes with layered oak that lingers longer than expected.
Here’s to twenty more.
Here’s to twenty more.
PROOF: 108 Proof | 54% ABV
MASH BILL: 62% Corn, 20% Malted Rye, 16% Rye, 2% Malted Barley
NOSE: Warm buttercream, hazelnut biscotti, mocha latte, almond butter, and citrus oils.
PALATE: Vanilla malted milk, brown sugar syrup, stewed rhubarb, soft caramel candies, and savory baking herbs.
FINISH: Long with notes of sugar cookies, cinnamon, lemongrass, royal icing, and cellar oak.
COMING SOON
Every piece Jeff Skele creates starts with a blank canvas and a feeling—or sometimes, a fresh wood cutout, scrap metal, or a recycled glass bottle. Really, anything he can get his hands on that paint will stick to. He works with various mediums, including spray paint, house paint, oil pastels, and markers.
Sometimes, he starts with a vision in his head, but most often, the subject of Skele’s paintings comes to him while listening to a song and soaking in the blank canvas.
For Skele, making art is his own form of therapy. It’s a space to transmute the complex feelings and images floating through his head to the canvas. This reflection time is necessary; it’s his “why.”
Sometimes, he starts with a vision in his head, but most often, the subject of Skele’s paintings comes to him while listening to a song and soaking in the blank canvas.
For Skele, making art is his own form of therapy. It’s a space to transmute the complex feelings and images floating through his head to the canvas. This reflection time is necessary; it’s his “why.”
Life before art was like being lost in the woods for years. He knew he had something to share but didn't quite know what it was. He can’t pinpoint the exact reason why he started drawing, but once he did, the feeling that he got when he put pen to paper was something he had never experienced. Then, he just never stopped. Skele has been a full-time artist for 10 and a half years now and has no plans to slow down.
Skele’s goal with his art is to make the people who look at it feel something, too. Whether it’s joy or discomfort, any feeling his work has provoked is valid. He wants people to connect somehow and make it their own.
Skele’s goal with his art is to make the people who look at it feel something, too. Whether it’s joy or discomfort, any feeling his work has provoked is valid. He wants people to connect somehow and make it their own.
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