Quick Profile
- Proof
- 80 Proof (40% ABV)
- ABV
- 40%
- Age
- NAS
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- High-Rye Bourbon (Old Grand-Dad)
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice and Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, cinnamon, clove, and vanilla.
The brand's flagship high-rye recipe; a spicy nose of dried fruit leads to sweet vanilla, peppery spice, clove, and cinnamon, finishing medium and lightly spicy.
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
High-Rye Bourbon (Old Grand-Dad): 63% Corn, 27% Rye, 10% Malted Barley
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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