Quick Profile
- Age
- A blend of 9-Year Basil Hayden, 9-Year Knob Creek, 11-Year Booker's, and 12-Year Baker's
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Fruity, Sweet & Dessert-Like, and Smoky & Earthy notes. Specific descriptors include apricot, caramel, char / smoke, and vanilla.
A blend of four whiskeys from the original small-batch collection, bottled at barrel strength; caramel and smoky barrel char meet sweet baking spice and vanilla, delivering vanilla, char, and dried apricot on a lingering, warm, oak-layered finish.
What Defines This Bottle
High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
Bottled at or near its barrel-entry strength, with no or minimal water added; concentrated flavor and higher perceived heat.
Bottled at, or close to, the proof it actually comes out of the barrel at -- little or no water added before bottling. That means more of the barrel's own character reaches the glass undiluted, at the cost of a proof that can run well past standard bottling strength. See Rickhouse Science for how barrel placement and time change what's actually in that barrel to begin with, and the Proof & Dilution Calculator for what cutting a barrel-proof pour down actually does to it.
Learn about High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey →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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