Quick Profile
- Proof
- 80 Proof (40% ABV)
- ABV
- 40%
- Age
- NAS
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Basil Hayden Golden Rye
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Sweet & Dessert-Like, Spice, and Grain & Cereal notes. Specific descriptors include caramel, cinnamon, rye bread, and vanilla.
Made from 100% malted rye; hints of oak and caramel meet subtle floral spice, sweet vanilla, cinnamon, and toasted rye bread.
What Defines This Bottle
Age
This bottle carries no single stated age. Federal labeling rules only require an age statement when a whiskey is younger than 4 years, so a bottle without one may be genuinely young or simply old enough that stating it became optional.
Does No Age Statement Mean It's Young? →Mash Bill (Grain Bill) The recipe of raw grains milled and cooked for fermentation, defined by its dominant grain -- corn for bourbon, rye for rye whiskey. Learn more
Basil Hayden Golden Rye: 100% Malted Rye
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from James B. Beam Distilling Co. -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (Char #4 "Alligator" char standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Distinctive multi-story wood-and-metal clad open rickhouses spread across Clermont, Boston, and Frankfort, Kentucky.
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