Our favorite barrel-whisperers over at ASW Distillery are up to their old tricks, releasing the Deep South's first Heavily Peated Single Malt Whiskey, Tire Fire. With a name that says it all, ASW distilled Tire Fire right here in Atlanta exclusively from heavily peated malted barley from Inverness, Scotland. At 45ppm phenol content, Tire Fire is up there with Laphroaig and Lagavulin as an absolute Peat Beast. Oh, and it's delicious. As they say in their incredibly high-budget hype video here, Tire Fire is for those who breakfast with bears, who hydrate with tankards of seawater, who like their whiskey with all the peat that can be seared into a single dram. The nose is a bouquet of barbecue, the palate whisks you to salt-sprayed islands in the far north, the finish -- like the Northwest Passage -- lasts a brief eternity.<br><br>ASW Distillery has put together this exclusive tour & tasting package for us, just in time for Thanksgiving and the holidays. (Won't that beautiful label and smoky finish just go so well with our pumpkin pie?)