“The 2026 release of Mad Angler Bourbon continues our commitment to crafting excellent field to glass whiskeys using 100% Michigan grain.” said David Wallace, co-founder of Iron Fish Distillery .
Mad Angler Bourbon Release Schedule:
Mad Angler Bourbon will be available at Iron Fish Distillery and in select retailers throughout Michigan beginning Friday, April 10th.
Email sales@ironfishdistillery.com for questions on where to find a bottle.
Mad Angler Bourbon Batch #7
92 Proof.
Mash Bill:
70% Michigan Yellow Corn
16% Michigan Winter Wheat
9% Michigan Malted Barley
5% Estate Grown Hazlet Rye
The name Mad Angler is inspired by the work of northern Michigan writer Michael Delp, whose words are on the back of every bottle of Mad Angler Bourbon:
“Consider holding the wildness of a place in your hand, and then tossing it back, dreaming of rivers, wild fish, pure water, the spirit luminous inside you, allowed to roam where it wishes.”
Mad Angler Whiskey 2026 Release Schedule:
Mad Angler Bourbon marks the first of multiple Mad Angler whiskey releases in 2026. Mad Angler Bottled in Bond Wheat Whiskey will be released in June followed by the release of Mad Angler Bottled in Bond Rye Whiskey in July.
Mad Angler Day:
The second annual Mad Angler Day is happening at Iron Fish Distillery on Saturday, May 16th from 12pm-4pm. Mad Angler Day is a celebration of the Mad Angler ethos of watershed preservation and features the distillery-only release of Mad Angler Manifesto, an annual distillery-only whiskey release created by the award winning blending team at Iron Fish Distillery. The event will include artists, fly fishing vendors, and a poetry reading and book signing by Michael Delp, the writer whose Mad Angler books inspired the Mad Angler line of whiskies. Iron Fish Distillery makes charitable contributions to organizations that work to preserve our northern Michigan watersheds.
About Iron Fish Distillery
Established in 2016, Iron Fish Distillery stands as Michigan’s first full line farm distillery, cultivating grains, distilling spirits, and aiming to perfect the art of barrel-finishing sourced whiskey. This third party environmentally audited working farm and distillery attracts over 150,000 guests annually to the agricultural destination, reborn on a long-abandoned 120-acre farm located in rural Springdale Township in Manistee County.
Named for the Steelhead that journeys up the nearby Betsie River, every step of the Iron Fish soil-to-spirit process occurs onsite. The process starts in farm fields where the distillery grows and harvests its own grain. Milling, mashing, fermenting, distilling, barrel aging, and bottling is on full display for visitors. Iron Fish also carefully sources bourbon for finishing in barrels from around the world. To date, their library of aged spirits exceeds 2,500 barrels.
Iron Fish Distillery’s vision is to be a beloved legacy distillery leaving the land and community a better place than they found it.
