With the huge rush to market in the last year or three of craft whiskey across the country, it has become something of a daily routine to search for new bottlings emerging from different states. We recently took note, for example, of a young bourbon surfacing out of North Carolina. Said to be that state’s first “made from local grains” bourbon since Prohibition, we introduce you to Seventeen Twelve Bourbon.

Seventeen Twelve Bourbon is produced by SeventeenTwelve Spirits (Foothills Distillery), a young distillery run by two native North Carolina men. They state they aim to make “from grain to…