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Quick Profile
- Proof
- 100 Proof (50% ABV)
- ABV
- 50%
- Age
- Bottled-in-Bond (min. 4 Years)
- Style
- Bottled-in-Bond
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Standard Bourbon Recipe
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include caramel and vanilla.
Honors the 1897 Bottled-in-Bond Act; robust vanilla, roasted coffee beans, dark fruits, caramel, and dry spicy oak.
What Defines This Bottle
Bottled-in-Bond
A federally regulated designation; single distiller, single season, aged at least 4 years, bottled at exactly 100 proof; layered on top of an underlying recipe rather than describing one of its own.
Governed by the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 (27 CFR § 5.42): single distiller, single distillery, single distillation season, aged at least 4 years in a federally bonded warehouse, bottled at exactly 100 proof. This site's own catalog records one proof designation per bottle, so a real-world Bottled-in-Bond release that also happens to be barrel-proof-labeled may only surface here under one of the two designations -- see How to Read a Label and the Proof & Dilution Calculator for how a fixed 100-proof requirement compares to standard and barrel-proof bottling.
Learn about Bottled-in-Bond →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
Standard Bourbon Recipe: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Old Forester Distilling Co. -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- All barrels are manufactured and toasted/charred at the dedicated Brown-Forman Cooperage in Louisville.
- Warehouse Notes
- Barrels age in Brown-Forman’s specialized, climate-controlled, steam-heated brick and masonry rickhouses that cycle temperatures year-round to mimic multiple summers.
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