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The name of the bourbon is a reference to the year Kentucky became a state. The bourbon is positioned as a premium brand, [2] and the pricing policy makes it a competitor to Knob Creek or Woodford Reserve. This reflects a trend in bourbon production, resulting from competition with single malt whisky, [3] which makes small batch bourbons a big ...
The highest-priced mint juleps at the event use bourbon from the Brown-Forman sister brand, Woodford Reserve, which is marketed as the "official bourbon" of the Kentucky Derby. Old Forester , a bourbon also made by Brown-Forman, replaced Early Times starting May 2, 2015 [ 9 ] as the standard Kentucky Derby whisky for the lower-priced mint juleps.
Bourbon whiskey (/ ˈ b ɜːr b ən /; also simply bourbon) is a barrel-aged American whiskey made primarily from corn (maize). The name derives from the French House of Bourbon, although the precise source of inspiration is uncertain; contenders include Bourbon County, Kentucky, and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, both of which are named after the House of Bourbon. [1]
The entire range is bottled-in-bond bourbon, meaning it’s 100 proof and at least four years old among a few other qualifications (aside from the Barrel Proof expression that will, of course ...
In early 2014, the brand introduced a white corn whiskey using an unaged version of its standard mashbill, which consists of more than 80% corn, allowing for its sale as "corn whiskey". [29] The bottle makes no reference to Tennessee whiskey. Dickel would go on to release a Bourbon whiskey. Production began in 2012 of a Jack Daniel's Tennessee ...
Maker's Mark bourbon (Suntory Global Spirits) says the traditional definition is a whiskey produced using "approximately 1,000 gallons or less (19 barrels) from a mash bill of around 200 bushels of grain". [7] [8] Bernheim Original wheat whiskey (Heaven Hill) says that a small batch would involve "typically no more than 100" barrels. [9]
Elijah Craig is a premium and super-premium brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Kentucky by Heaven Hill Distilleries. The brand is sold as a straight bourbon, typically in 750 millilitres (26 imp fl oz; 25 US fl oz) glass bottles. Elijah Craig whiskey is offered in both small batch and single barrel bottlings.
Finishing (also known as double matured or wood-finished) is the procedure that some whiskies undergo where the spirit is matured in a cask of a particular origin and then spends time in a cask of different origin (from a couple of months up to the entire maturation [citation needed]) Typically, the first cask is an American oak cask formerly used to mature bourbon.