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Quick Profile
- Proof
- 86 Proof (43% ABV)
- ABV
- 43%
- Age
- NAS (~4+ Years)
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Standard Bourbon Recipe
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Fruity, Grain & Cereal, and Oak & Wood notes. Specific descriptors include banana, citrus peel, corn sweetness, and toasted oak.
Highly approachable everyday staple; sweet corn, vanilla wafer, ripe banana, citrus zest, and light toasted oak.
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
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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