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James B Beam Distillery: Iconic Innovators in the World of Bourbon
Prepare to be captivated by the intricate world of bourbon as we bring you the latest updates on the Scotchy Bourbon Boys Podcast! Ever wondered what goes into the craft of distilling? Alan Bishop from the One Piece at a Time Distilling Institute joins us, sharing his unparalleled knowledge and passion for both home and professional distilling. This episode not only highlights the talent behind our theme song, Kenny Fuller and Steve-O, but also underscores the importance of listener reviews, especially on Apple. Graduation season is upon us, and we take a heartfelt moment to thank our dedicated sponsors for their unwavering support.
Journey with us through the storied past and vibrant present of bourbon, starting with the legendary Old Crow and its ties to Jim Beam and Buffalo Trace. Personal anecdotes bring this history to life, beginning with my own bourbon awakening in 2018 through Booker's. Relive unforgettable encounters with bourbon icons Fred and Freddie Noe of the Jim Beam family. From the Kentucky Bourbon Festival to the welcoming embrace of Bardstown, Kentucky, expect to feel the genuine camaraderie and deep-rooted connections that define the bourbon community. We'll explore the richness of Jim Beam's spinoff brands, each adding unique flavors to the bourbon tapestry.
Dive deep into the history of Jim Beam's iconic decanters, relics that once dominated bourbon marketing in the 1970s. Learn about their collectible nature and unique designs ranging from vintage cars to fire trucks. We'll also highlight the distinguished Hardin's Creek brand with its 15-year, 108 proof bourbon, exemplifying exceptional craftsmanship and heritage. Rounding off our discussion, we spotlight the premium Lineage line, renowned for its exquisite design and higher price point. This episode promises a compelling blend of history, passion, and the shared love for bourbon, sure to captivate enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
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Hey Scotchy Bourbon Boys fans, this is Alan Bishop, Indiana's Alchemist of the Black Forest, so I'm tuning in here today to tell you all about the One Piece at a Time Distilling Institute channel on YouTube. If you're at all interested in the art of distilling whether it be home distilling or professional distilling, and the intense geekery that goes into that process, then check out the One Piece at a Time Distilling Institute on YouTube. I promise you're going to learn something you didn't know before about the arts.
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Speaker 3:Woo-wee. Welcome back to another podcast of the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. Tiny here tonight. It's a tiny talk I like to refer to that. That goes way back to Young Nose. He said he called these tiny talks.
Speaker 3:If he couldn't come to the uh podcast, I was left to podcast by myself. Uh, now I've got uh, ct, whiskey, super nash, roxy, all people who can podcast with me, but every once in a while, uh, it's a busy time. This is a busy time with all the graduations. I'd have to throw out a thank you to Kenny Fuller, who does our theme song, and then also Steve-O, little Steve-O. He basically also does the Alabama song at the end. Check that out. He does a great cover. Listen to that at the end of the podcast.
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Speaker 3:All right, james Jamie's here tonight. So is Walker. So is Terry Dan Good. Thank you for watching. Really appreciate that. Tonight Tonight's podcast is James Dan Good. Thank you for watching. Really appreciate that. Tonight Tonight's podcast is James B Beam.
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Speaker 3:Hey, scotchy Bourbon Boys, tiny here to tell you about Rosewood Bourbon and Rye, the bourbon that implicated Andyy dufresne in a double homicide he did not commit in the classic movie shawshank redemption, initially produced in california by general distillers in the 1930s and originally called lewis hunters rosewood bourbon. Master blender jason giles has brought back rosewood to you by purchasing plus contract distilling barrels of bourbon in Kentucky and Indiana. Once they mature, he ships them to Texas where he ages them for at least another summer in the Longhorn heat. The Rosewood Contexian blend and the Rosewood single barrels offer a unique bourbon and rye experience. Please drink responsibly and never drink and drive. There we go. I'm getting better at that one. I wish that was one I could get through. But Rosewood, one of the reasons why we brought Jason on is because the bourbon and the ryes are really good. Jason has a good palate, his single barrels are phenomenal and his Contexium blend impressed me initially. When you're dealing with Indiana, we know what we're dealing with and you know he also deals with Kentucky, so he's got some good things going on. So we've got that covered.
Speaker 3:Also, I do want to still push Open Bees. So Open Bees is having a bourbon raffle of over 75 raffles. Christy has been spectacular. The Open Bees what she uses the money for this charity raffle is to help kids with learning disabilities in school. With that, basically are not getting the help and the support they need. She's helped so many families. You could go to OpenBeescom and check out that raffle. Please grab a raffle ticket.
Speaker 3:I mean, realistically, you're donating to a great cause where the money is being very, very well spent helping kids and families, and it's just if you can give a donation and you end up with a chance to win some spectacular bourbon. She's got the full line of Pappy out there. She's got Staggs, she's got George T Staggs. She's got, you know, the whole B-Tac antique line. She's got Stagg Jr. She's I mean everything, junior. She's, I mean everything that she has these amazing bottles. So you got the shot, uh, and you and you're, you're helping kids. What more? What more can you know? Do you want to do? I mean, it's worth just giving to the charity, but at the same time you get a raffle ticket and a chance to win amazing bourbon.
Speaker 3:So she did it last year and that it was very successful. This year she isolated and got a little bit higher end, less bourbons, but more higher end type stuff top shelf. So I was there, I saw that collection that she has. It's just amazing and I can't wait. Uh, she's shooting to sell 1500 tickets by father's day. So let's uh give a push. If you get a chance, please uh donate to that and uh, that's, remember open-beescom, so that'll get you right there. The the as soon as you go there, it's a second annual bourbon uh raffle. So get your tickets and, uh, I support this. This is legitimate. Uh, she did it. She works immensely, she works hard, and so I just she's Christie's what she's doing. You just got to support her, all right. So we've got that and we're just on a roll, right?
Speaker 3:Also, I will throw out the Sigador. If you got a chance, it is your own personal humidor. Out the cigador. Uh, if you got a chance, it is your own personal humidor. I was able to use that uh this past, uh, two weekends ago, when I went to Pennsylvania, brought along uh my. So when I when I was able to pull it out of that personal cigador you know it's a huge, it's a personal cigar humidor that you take with. It keeps your cigars at 70 degrees, 70 percent uh humidity and it lasts up to, they say, two weeks. But mine was in there for four and it still was 70 and the my cigar experience was spectacular. All right, um, with that said, we're going to do Jim Beam. So I do have.
Speaker 3:When I got this whiskey bottle, this whiskey Michael Jackson's Whiskey, the Definitive World Guide, Michael Jackson this was the first new edition he had passed and they did this in the same style and it's a great book for referencing uh different distilleries and whatnot. So I'm gonna uh read about the jim beam because this is probably the best way to get the history out. You know, right there. So I'm the microphone. It seems no one remembers from where in Germany the original Mr Beam came. When he immigrated to Maryland and it was spelled B-O-E-H-M or at what stage the name was Americanizedilleries to be found in the US during the past 200 years.
Speaker 3:The Beam's American roots are located in Bardstown, nelson County and two or three adjoining counties. The first distiller in the family was Jacob Beam, who set up in Washington County in 1795. His great-grandson, david Beam, established a distillery in the mid-1800s at Clear Springs, just up the hollow from the distillery that would bear the name of his son, jim, at Claremont in Bullitt County. The Jim Beam Distillery at Claremont was established after Prohibition ended in 1933. Along the way, the company also acquired a distillery about nine miles away at Boston in Nelson County. Now that distillery is being renovated right now that, I believe, is going to be the Booker T no Distillery. And the James B Distilling Company was acquired in 1967 by the conglomerate American Brands, which became Fortune Brands. This became Beam Global in the first decade of the new millennium. It was bought by Suntory in 2014, and the new Beam Suntory Incorporated is now the third largest drink company in the world. That could be bigger because this was from 2019, I believe.
Speaker 3:The plain, somewhat industrial Claremont Distillery, a 30-minute drive from Louisville, is a major tourist attraction and home to Jim Beam's American Outpost, where visitors can learn about the Beam Whiskey heritage and view the historic family home. He's talking about the improvements that happened in 2012. The improvements that actually happened. They did it again during COVID and reopened right after COVID again during COVID and reopened right after COVID. And the American still house, or the American outpost, is fantastic.
Speaker 3:The company uses its own sweet yeast with hops. There is plenty of rye mash and back set in the cooker and in an especially large proportion, in the fermenters. Beam distills and barrels at notably lower proofs than other bourbon distillers make a significant contribution to its taste. Now, um, I also know that their yeast is uh 100 percent, uh liquid. They don't use powdered yeast and it's very expensive to use liquid yeast when you're making that kind of volume. So it's something that they've gotten down. When you go there, you see it in the refrigerator. It's really kind of a cool thing.
Speaker 3:The principal Jim Beam version is four years old and 80 proof. It is an innocuous dram, soft, medium bodied with understated sweetness, vanilla and spice. Jim Beam Black, aged for eight years, is at 86 proof, is different and distinctive. It is complex, overflowing with oak, vanilla and fruit, and is a long and balanced dram. In the early 1990s, jim Beam launched the Small Batch Collection, giving loose definition to a subcategory of bourbon that has energized the industry. The Small Batch Bourbon Collection had the great fortune to have Booker Ngo, grandson of Jim Beam, as its roving brand ambassador. As its roving brand ambassador, booker passed away in early 2004 after 50 years of making and supervising the production of Beam Whiskey. His son, fred, has carried the torch for the whiskey ever since and still is Freddie. His son this past year became a co-master distiller with Fred and Fred had some health issues, but he's doing fine now and he basically Fred Freddie is getting set up to start to take over, and so Booker knows in.
Speaker 3:Eponymous whiskey was introduced in 1988 as an uncut, natural proof and non-chilled filter bourbon. In 1992, the complex okay bookers was okay, okay. Let's just say this again booker knows. Eponymous whiskey was introduced in 1988 as an uncut, natural-proof and non-chilled filtered bourbon. In 1992, the complex Oakey Booker's was joined hayden's, an eight-year 80 proof, spicy, peppery whiskey with twice as much rye in the mash bill and the balanced and robust knob creek, a nine-year-old 100 proof whiskey named after abraham lincoln's childhood home in kentucky.
Speaker 3:So, um, there are some other. It's you, uh, you read on. Uh, I believe Old Crow is still made by, uh, by Jim Beam or Beam and Suntory, but, uh, they since gave up the old Taylor brand and we all know where they gave that brand up to. They gave that brand up to, uh, it would be Buffalo trace. So there's a little brief history. So I have a little history. Real quick. Uh, can take these off. Uh, that was kind of cool. Uh, the.
Speaker 3:What got me into bourbon in 2018 is Booker's. Booker's was my first ever sought after where I didn't I mean, initially I didn't know how the hunting worked and everything and as I was getting into it, before I even started a podcast, I had gotten lucky and been in the store and gotten some Weller's Antique 107. I had picked up some bottles, okay. And then I also met Super Nash and Super Nash was sending me the bottles some of the tailors that he was sending me. He was sending out some samples, but I had loved Booker's and the early 2019 kitchen table had come out Booker's kitchen table and I really thought it was cool because it was based off of the kitchen table in the Beam Mansion in Bardstown where they sat around and they talked about and picked that brand. He would bring home samples.
Speaker 3:So I was looking for it and I had saw it a couple of times but I didn't pull the trigger because, you know, back then $89.99 for a bottle of bourbon was expensive. I mean, it wasn't like I was coming out of 20,. You know, 1999 Jack Daniels or Jim Beam those were the expensive bourbons, those were the top shelves, not these brands. Now, as I started searching for that Booker's it had been. I didn't realize it was a batch and it. I just kept looking and looking and I couldn't find it. Well, I finally found it in Wisconsin and I got that off the shelf. I do believe I didn't pay 80, I think I paid 74.99 for it, no, 84.99 for it there in Wisconsin and I got my first bottle that I hunted for and I was so happy to get it.
Speaker 3:But I also fell in love with Booker's. That uncut, unfiltered, straight from the barrel to the bottle, is what I love, and so that really started me off. Booker's is what started me off, and then I heard about in September of 2018, I heard about the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. So we spent the whole year getting ready to go to Kentucky Bourbon Festival in 2019. And I did a painting in 2019 and I did a painting Uh, the painting was, uh of Booker Fred and Freddie, along with Mila Kunis. It's hanging right there with a big bottle of Booker's that was an older bottle, uh and so I had Fred and Freddie. When I went down there, they had a Jim Beam dinner and I brought the painting and I met Fred and Freddie that night and they signed my painting and I hung out with them in their backyard.
Speaker 3:It was a great event, super, back in the 2016,. As Robert Lee says, that was his first high proof. It was a first, a lot for a lot of people, but I was able to meet them. And then the next night there was the gala and I was. When I was at the gala, I Sandy, which is Fred's wife, was at the gala and we kind of talked and hung out and got to know each other a little bit there and hung out and got to know each other a little bit there. But also when I did this painting, I also had a signed painting, a 24 by 36 version of it and I gave that to them and Sandy basically hung it up in their kitchen, where the kitchen table is, and then sent me a picture. We were talking back and forth on facebook and so that was the beginning of the friendship.
Speaker 3:Uh, got to know sandy. Uh, her uh small little dog, pixie, was not doing well when I first met her and then passed, so I offered to do a pet portrait of it and she had me do it. It sent me a picture. I did a painting of Pixie. It's still I'm sure she loves it and that was from that point on.
Speaker 3:I mean, I've been in their home and they're so welcoming and they're so welcoming and that's one thing that no matter who is what conglomerate, you know what big industry giant owns them Suntory or whatever the great thing about it is they live in Bardstown. They still live in the Jim Beam mansion that Jim Beam himself lived in and they've passed this throughout the family. There's two houses next to each other and while Fred and Sandy now are in this house, freddie and Kay are in the house next door and then eventually they would move into the mansion themselves and it's that's how the history of it is, but the family experience. They say it come as friends, leave as family. I mean it's, it's true, they are very. They love hosting and being part of this part of whiskey history and they embrace it and they meet so many different people and talk about it and it's just. It's an amazing relationship that they have with the bourbon industry and with the people that drink it. And you know, I consider Sandy and Fred friends. I mean they're family, but friends I mean good friends. It's something that you wouldn't expect. And so when you go down and it's pretty much throughout the industry down there, the people down there are just about working hard and liking bourbon and having a good time sharing bourbon with others. And it's just amazing. Honestly, it's amazing. So let's talk about what they're doing there in their brands.
Speaker 3:Okay, so we talked about the basic brands. So, uh, the Jim Beam, so, but each brand seems to have its own spinoff. Okay, so like right now there's Jim Beam, the basic one, but I've got this one Distillers Cut, I mean. Then there's the Jim Beam Single Barrel and then there's Jim Beam Black, there's Jim Beam Double Oak and there's Jim Beam Devil's Cut. So these are their, you know their blends. I mean the cuts and blends that they do. And Jim Beam itself is a staple in every bar in America and I'm sure it's a staple in a lot of bars overseas. But, like, there's also a signature cut and a distiller's cut. But this distiller's cut, um, I've had it for a little bit is I believe I picked this up for 24.99. I mean, how can you go wrong? Uh, you get this like a little bit higher level.
Speaker 3:Now the distillers cut, let me tell you so those are like the basic, that's their basic brand and you know so many places you know have all that. But that's part of like, there's their Elijah Craig. Elijah Craig, which is a small batch. Then they have their toasted. They've got Elijah Craig single barrel. They've got Elijah Craig barrel proof. You know they've got all the different expressions Elijah Craig, 18. But this is just Jim Beam's general brand.
Speaker 3:The age this distiller's cut is aged five or six years and let's see, I'm looking for a proof on it. We know it has to have the proof. Oh, there, it is. No, let's see if I can get some light. There it is, it's 100 proof. So it's a little bit.
Speaker 3:This is this. This distiller's cut is like jim beam at 100 proof. So you're getting, I mean, that classic mash bill which I believe I should have that down in my brain. I want to say it is 78 corn. Let's see, I just will do this real quick because I can. This is the quickest that I can do. There we go, here it is. Really how many mash bills does jim be? Man? They're very low rye around 13 and high rye around 27. So the traditional mash bill here's. This is the common mash bill 75 corn, 13 rye and 12 malted barley. So there you go. That, that is the common mash bill. Now it goes throughout, I mean throughout the small batch when you're talking about bakers and bookers, and those are the. That's the same same mash bill but different versions of what this line is. So I'm going to take a little sip to see where this uh distillers cut goes.
Speaker 3:I'm going to put this back here. I mean, it's a five to six year. The Jim Beam is four year, so you're already. They don't put stuff out at two. It could be Kentucky Straight Bourbon at two, but they're putting it out at four, so five, this is five to six, and 100 proof. So the hundred proof is what's special about that distiller's cut? So, anyways, I'm gonna put a little water in here, all right? So what's the first brand off of it? And'm going to grab it. Right now. I do have that bar rag Spilled a little bit of water. I want to get that up off. Here we go, I will put it.
Speaker 3:The first brand and I've got an expression of it off of the brand is, in my opinion, basil basil hayden. Basil hayden is one of the best selling. Uh, I'm gonna go back to the facebook. Let's go back facebook. There we are, we're back in. Um is the best selling. Uh, small batch for Jimby. This is crazy. Now, this is Basil Hayden toast.
Speaker 3:But initially Basil Hayden was out there and they started to do different expressions, but lately the expressions that they've been able to do. The great thing about this is the bottle. All of you that are out there you can see that that bottle is phenomenal. It's got the the um, the brass metal ring on the outside, like it's a barrel with rivets, says basil hayden, with the thing I mean, these bottles are spectacular, thek is, and they initially had a paper really cool paper bottle people would buy. This is a great gift for anybody.
Speaker 3:Now Basil Hayden is 80 proof and that stays throughout pretty much everything they do They've got. So initially there was basil Hayden, then they came out with their basil Hayden rye, which was good, and they came up with Caribbean rye. Then all of a sudden there was a dark rye and then there was basil Hayden. The first one was the toast, then there was subtle smoke. I mean the different expressions that they've been coming out. This is another example of what Jim Beam is doing to keep up with the competition. But the one thing that they do when they do it is there seems to always be enough. You know, hey, stacy Stearns, thanks for watching. There seems to always be enough.
Speaker 3:You know, hey, stacy Stearns, thanks for watching, and this Basil Hayden toast actually is something that I enjoy. I'm just going to do a little bit. I opened this. My wife loves this brand, loves this, loves the toast. That is one that she likes, and the way they get there they use this is not the standard mash bill. There's rice, there's a certain amount of rice in this, but it really the Basil Hayden brand.
Speaker 3:Then you come up next would be Knob Creek in brand. Then you come up next, uh, would be knob Creek. Now, knob Creek is really kind of fun because you've got I've got knob Creek 15 here. I'll set that to that side. Let's see, yep, I've got niob creek 18, which comes in this really really cool container. I mean, look at that. Oh, do people on you know? I've had this for a little bit? Um, it's, it's just it's suspended in a box and you got that. And then you've got your regular knob creek nine year you've got nine, uh, knob creek single barrels. But you also have knob creek 12. Knob creek 12 is delicious, uh, and then I believe I did have it. Let me see, I brought it out, so it should be here.
Speaker 3:My first barrel pick I ever went on was for Kentucky Bourbon Festival. It was a Knob Creek pick which I have, that bottle, but I also have this bottle which is, I will tell you it is called the Barrel Room, scotchy Bourbon Boy Select. This is at 120 proof. The single barrels can be at 120 proof but the normal expression of of knob creek is a hundred proof. And then you've got this knob creek 12 which I'm going to sample from. This is a hundred proof too. And so what I want you know with with these, uh, the 15. So as you go, people, uh I, I got to last the last Kentucky Bourbon Festival. I got to finally interview Fred there. You can check that out on YouTube, that's up there. And honestly, interviewing was really cool because he said when they're doing it they don't want it to get too woody. So when you're talking about 12, 15, 18, now, initially when these single barrels started coming out for Knob Creek it was it was amazing because you were getting 15 year single barrels at stores for $45. Year single barrels at stores for $45. And then they came out with Knob Creek 15 for $100. And those single barrels at 15 years were some of the best bourbon I think I've ever drank. Now, this 15 year, this is the first year that they did it.
Speaker 3:I've got it here. It was very oaky, so it's been sitting in there for a while and so I'm going to put a little bit of that in my scotchy. Let's just put it in the Jim Beam. I want to just have a little sip of that. You can tell, tonight I'm just having like half ounce pours and I will put that back. But their packaging, once again at jim beamer's fantastic. You see this somewhat being copied. But these wood boxes that they produce with the little plastic insert or the suspension, are just fantastic. The packaging, uh, we, you know we'll get to bookers and I'll talk about that. I mean, I've had you know, it's just unbelievable, uh. So there you go.
Speaker 3:That was the 15, plus this right here knob creek 12, which I'm having a little bit of. No, I'm having the 15 at the moment Now. It got a little smoky, not so oaky, so the wood tannins have died down on that 15 with age. It'll be interesting to see how much further Now I'm just going to go straight to this 12 and see what happens, because the 12 was spectacular from this year Whiskey bought like eight bottles of it. Yeah, 12 is much better, sweeter, a little sweeter, not as smoky, not as oaky, uh, but still has a little bite. So there you go, 100 proof now. So after Creek, you go to Baker's.
Speaker 3:Now Baker's initially came out with Baker's 107. My wife absolutely loved it and then they changed it to the Baker's Single Barrel and I've got that right here. This is Baker's 7 Single Barrel. She liked this equally. So we always have a lot of bakers in here, but the bakers. That is phenomenal, and one of my favorites is this bakers 13.
Speaker 3:Now, the first year it came out in this and we basically I've got the box. But this past year I was able to, thanks to stacy stern, no, stacy pritchard, not stacy stern. Sorry stacy. Um, both stacy's sorry, uh, this is signed by baker beam, fred and freddie. Now this 13 is this year's. At the festival this was picked up by Stacy for me. Uh, when she was running around she was able to get them all to sign it. I really appreciate that. That's a bottle. I bought an extra bottle so I could drink it, because this bottle is special to me. So you got the Baker's, so you got the evolution of Baker's.
Speaker 3:Now then there's Booker's. Now Booker's comes out in batches four to five times a year it's been coming out. This is Booker knows what would you say? This is Booker. Knows what would you say? This is his baby. One of the things that Fred says is that when he was talking to Booker, at the end Booker said don't fuck up my bookers. That's what he said. So Fred has not these batches I've had so many different ones Out of all the batches since 2019, I want to say so.
Speaker 3:You got five from 2019, four from, maybe four from 20, nine, four, 21, maybe five in 21, and then 22 was back to four and 18, so that's 22, and then 23 was a four, so three was four, so we're at 28 and then we're at one. So we're last 29 batches since 2019. There's only one batch that I wasn't excited about, and I mean when you're talking about Booker'sers is, in my opinion, the premier of what bourbon should be. Uh, it's right out of the barrel. They don't uh, non-chill filter it so that if this gets cold, it will go cloudy. That's one thing, reason why they do that. They'd like to take some of the fatty at the fats out of it and they leave that in here. Uh, because they want and booker wanted the most the closest experience, uh, that you can get, uh, you know, to right out of the barrel. And when you thief barrels and I've, I've thief, some at jim, I pretty much the barrels everywhere uh, that's the flavor you're always looking for, what you get with the boogers type thing, and I'm going to pour a little of that, just a little.
Speaker 3:This is the 22 2022 batch. Uh, I believe I want to say it's the shiny barrel, but, um, I need my readers here. I will tell you nope, it's ronnie's batch. This is ronnie's batch. So each one, all right. So, from the standpoint you know of the other ones, you get nice boxing, nice packaging, but each one of bookers comes with the story, the name, the person, who they're naming it.
Speaker 3:After everybody gets the, the whole they this is a way of honoring people that have worked throughout the brand but you also get this amazing box to store it in. It's a wooden box. So this is what, like I said to uh, I've said this over is that this is what I mean. And you get this little card that tells you the story and where all the barrels came from to make this batch. They tell you which, which floor, which wick, house, what you know and, uh, it's really kind of cool. It's what I want in bourbon and whiskey. This is why I got into it. Really kind of cool. I mean, it's just the whole package. This is what I like. I mean, I'm just in it for this. I want packaging, I want taste, I want flavor, I want proof, I want this, and Booker's delivers on all that. So, all right.
Speaker 3:So we got through Booker's, now we get to go to Little Book, fred's son, freddy no, he basically has been taking over and doing his own thing and one of the things that he's doing is little book. Uh, little book is what uh booker no called freddie when he was little and he used to call him little book. And so freddie uh has uh, his own brand Little Book. Every year he chooses different whiskeys from that because it's so good, different whiskeys from all around and so little book uh is a blend. It's sometimes it's got canadian whiskey. All the different places. Uh, it can have, it could have japanese. I don't believe he's done that. He's taken one blend. Uh, he calls them all the different ones that he names them.
Speaker 3:This is to uh, all right, chapter he's. I think he's on chapter. This is chapter. This is chapter six to the finish, from 22. It's signed by him. I've had some. He tells you everything that goes into it and he produces these and when I was at the 2019 or 2020 pick, it would have been the 2021 pick for the 21 Festival.
Speaker 3:So I got to try the little book while we were there. He let us taste a little bit of that. So this one I've only had one pour signed by him. It's once again. He's got the whole package. I mean, look at that, it's signed by Freddie for me. It's signed by freddie and fred. Fred no, no, no, yeah. Freddie no and fred no. They both signed it for me. So one of the cool things is that they sign a lot of bottles. I mean, I even have my double oak from the first uh time I met them, or the first. That would have been the third time I met them in 2019. And they signed that bottle. So I have a bottle of double oak sign and I have, from there, knob Creek signed by them. So lots and lots of different fun things that you do. Now. The experiences are great. You can get experiences with Freddie and Fred. They do dinners, they do luncheons, they do once a month things at the distillery that you can purchase. It's just a great distillery. So now we get into a little bit cooler stuff. Okay, so I've got over here.
Speaker 3:They used to do decanters and these decanters were a way of selling Jim Beam. During the 70s, when the bourbon was falling off the face of the earth, that people would want to buy these decanters. I mean it's amazing how they made these milk glass decanters decanters. Fishing. Minocqua had a fishing tournament. They made a Jim Beam decanter for it. They had so many different decanters cars, motorcycles, fire trucks it's unbelievable. The decanters. Cars, motorcycles, fire trucks it's unbelievable. The decanters, now, they made a lot of them, so they're not always, they're not that rare.
Speaker 3:So this is something that Nash, super Nash got me. It's their painting series and this one has been opened. I think I'm going to take this down and share this with Fred and, uh, sandy. I've had some out of this, so it's been open and it's good. It's got a screw cap and this is oh that. That little book was phenomenal.
Speaker 3:This is like drinking history. I'll put that up there. It's the coolest decanter. It's got this like velvet. It feels like velvet on the outside, like they sprayed it with velvet.
Speaker 3:The bottle Came to me from Super Nash. I opened it because I wanted to make sure that it was good. Because I wanted to make sure that it was good. I get to taste this stuff with Brad Bonds all the time. That's spectacular, love that.
Speaker 3:So they had all those decanters. So they've got Dusty's. I mean, they've been making so many different bourbons for so long. It's just like they know what they're doing, but what they're focused on now is really kind of cool. So in the last couple years, what they've added in there's some stuff that they've added in. Uh, you've got Hardin's Creek, their newest brand, one of their newest brand. This was the 15 year that came right off initially. The first year I mean, I came home from that, came home from that. This 15-year 108 proof. This was up for Whiskey of the Year. Actually, I think it won. But you flip that. It's got this little leather color. It's got this greatest tin. It's got this greatest tin. It's got this book. Each one comes with a book describing everything about it. But this, this is bourbon again, the way that I want it, and this hardens wait, I'm gonna put that in the gym beam cup.
Speaker 3:I'll put it in the brand new gym beam cup. All right, there we go, put a little bit there. This is a special night. Talking about that. The. The cover is just spectacular. It's got a little push over there, a little snap there, leather, um, it's just a great thing. I'm dropping that baby back in the tin. The cover has two lunch. It's like a lunch pail. It's got little lunch pail flip-ups to get that baby in the right direction, get that one on. So now it's in a tin. The tin is signed by Fredno, the tin is signed by Fredno, signed by Freddyno. Right there it even looks. I know it's printed, but the tin is fantastic. Again, marketing and packaging. Let's have a little sip of the 15. I'm just going through the line. I'm just going through the line.
Speaker 3:So this distillery has been around for a long time. Before Prohibition, jim Beam was doing really well with this. After Prohibition he was old and it was run. I believe Booker started in 1950, something Coming out of Prohibition, though it would have been Jim Beam's brothers. So Booker was his grandson. Booker had no sons and he had a daughter and she married I believe Booker no, the first and he was a banker and they had Booker and he basically started working for the. His grandson started working for the distillery. One of Jim's brothers took over it for a while and then it went to, eventually went to Booker and then now it's gone to Fred and now it's gone to Freddie. So they are all direct descendants of the Beam family. The Beam family is huge. Stephen Beam runs Limestone Branch. I mean, we are talking about Parker Beam was at Heaven Hill.
Speaker 3:Beams have been distilling and what happens is in a distilling family they teach their own, they work there, but the master distillers, the master distillers for sun, that type of thing, and so those people go off and distill at other distilleries. They have been all over Kentucky distill at other distilleries. They have been all over Kentucky and the beam family uh has been directly related to a lot of uh distilling, uh distilleries that you would never think that they were. But that's how it goes Uh, you know uh a lot. I even to this day there's there is a Jim beam, james beam Uh, he is working right now with Kentucky owl Uh, so lots of different uh beams out there in Kentucky, but they all really kind of know what, what, what they need to do when it comes to distilling. So, uh, excellent, uh, so there is one more.
Speaker 3:I believe it's not opened. We'll talk about it. Oh, there's two more, but this one right here, I'm going to slide it because it looks like it's open. Slide that up. I don't know how it got open, but it's open, all right. So this one I have not opened, it's called Lineage. It's called Lineage. It's a little bit.
Speaker 3:You know, some of these that we've been talking about have been in the one up to 189. Some were 159, 69, 189. But this one here was 225. And this one is the Lineage line and the bottle's amazing. The box is amazing Again. Then this one was for, if you look at it, you got the little metal plaque. I'm trying to get it in there. Yep, I got it in there. And then you've got on the back Fred and Freddy on there with the description Great bottle. I'm going to read that description and then we are almost done, let's go.
Speaker 3:This carefully crafted bourbon has been a long time in the making, over 225 years, in fact. That is how long the Beam family have been perfecting the craft of distillation, passing down their knowledge from generation to generation. This limited release, created by master distiller Fred Noe with his son, freddy Noe, continues the tradition. Together, fred and Freddy hand selected this 15 year old bourbon. With its aromatic yet balanced flavor, this rare whiskey marks the peak of one generation's achievement and the next generation's coming of age. So you've got a really cool bottle that is almost the passing of the guard Fantastic bottle.
Speaker 3:And then I do have the repeal batch, which I oh yeah, there is the repeal batch, which is was phenomenal. It's non-chilled filter. It came out it was like 1699 limited edition and it is fantastic. Actually I've made a bunch of uh, bourbon balls with this repeal batch. I mean, I like this. Now there's old tub, which I don't have. That is the name of what Jacob Beam was making. The signature brand before Jim Beam was called Old Tub. And I'm going to tell you for the price, which I believe right now is $18.99, $19.99. One of my favorite bourbons. If you gave me 20 bucks and I had to buy a bourbon, I'd be buying old tub, but the repeal batch was uh, it limited. And then there was also a bottled and bond at one point, which isn't I'm sure they were going to bring that back. That is just for the price. That repeal batch I really like uh.
Speaker 3:Now there's distillery release only. Uh, it's called distiller's share and they release these and they release a certain amount of 375s every year and it's at the distillery. These are absolutely fantastic bourbons. This was their second. I do believe I got their first and their second, second and third releases. I did not get the first, but each one is special it it's limited, it comes out. This is an American single malt released there. They also did have Claremont Steep, which is another American single malt that they released overall, and so that was really kind of cool.
Speaker 3:We are talking about, you know, in response to the bourbon boom, jim Beam, beam Suntory has kept up and, under the guidance of Fred and Freddie Ngo, kept up as not keeping up but as trend centers, as they are blazing the trail of fantastic whiskey. I mean between Booker's and Little Book, but then those aged Knob Creeks in the wooden boxes presentation. I mean, honestly, one of the best bourbons I've had is Baker's 13-year. I really love it. The first release was fantastic. It's right up there with any of the releases that come from the other distilleries.
Speaker 3:But one thing that Jim Beam always is is 75% corn is a high corn mash bill, but they also have a decent amount of rye in there. I mean, when you're talking about 13% rye and 12% barley and 75% corn, that's a lot of barley. Some people just go with 2-3% barley and then they push that rye lot of barley. Some people just go with two 3% barley and then they push that rye. But that mash bill that you, that sweet spot mash bill for Jim beam, is fantastic. So, all right, everybody.
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