Bourbon

The Yellowstone brand was launched as early as 1872. The whiskey is named after the American national park called Yellowstone, which the Limestone Branch distillery is committed to preserving. In the 1960s, Yellowstone Select Bourbon was one of the best-selling bourbons in the USA. The distillery wants to build on these old successes. For this purpose, four- and seven-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbons are blended together.

Daviess County is named after its origin: A county in the US state of Kentucky. In this small county, the Daviess County Distilling Company paved the way for more than a dozen other whiskey distilleries in 1874. Lux Row Distillers revitalised bourbon with a recipe made from corn, wheat, rye and malted barley. The whiskey was allowed to mature for six months in French oak barrels.

Hirsch is named after its inventor, A. H. Hirsch. The Straight Bourbon Whiskey consists of two types of bourbon distilled in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. 94% consists of a traditional mash of 75% corn, 21% rye and 4% barley malt and is matured for at least four years in oak barrels. The remaining 6% whiskey portion consists of a high rye mash of 36%, plus 60% corn and 4% barley malt. The smaller portion matures for at least six years in oak barrels.

Redemption Bourbon is a whiskey as it was enjoyed in the USA before Prohibition. The bourbon is made from 75% corn, 21% rye and 4% barley malt and is matured for over two and a half years.

Cavehill Bourbon is a tribute to the French and American farmers who simmered a combination of yeast, water and corn on homemade stills to create a new kind of spirit. At the Rabbit Hole distillery, the barrels are charred for 20 minutes before they are filled with the raw alcohol. This adds a mild and pleasant sweetness to the bourbon, which develops into a balanced overall result with spicy accents.

Basil Hayden's belongs to the Jim Beam Small Batch Bourbons, for which only barrels of high quality are selected. The Master Distiller of the same name, Basil Hayden, distilled his first Bourbon as early as 1796. This was not common for the time. He added rye to the traditional corn mash. The first Basil Hayden's was born. This bourbon still uses a higher percentage of rye than normal, this bottling matured significantly longer in the barrels to further enhance the flavours and complexity.

The Garrison Brothers have set themselves the difficult goal of distilling and also maturing whiskey in Texas. This is not so easy, as it sometimes gets so hot there in the summer that normal barrels can no longer withstand the environmental influences. So the team had barrels made from extra thick staves and was able to bring the first legal Texas Bourbon onto the market. Garrison Brothers Small Batch is handcrafted from a sweet mash of premium oragnanic Texas corn, soft red winter wheat from local farms and two-row barley.

In the Maker's Mark Wood Finishing Series, a new whiskey with a special finish is released every year. For this, barrel-strength, fully matured Maker's Mark is post-matured in experimentally manufactured barrels. Depending on the desired flavour profile, the staves for the barrels are combined for the finish in collaboration with the Independent Stave Company.

For the Milam & Greene Single Barrel, each cask is individually rated, bottled and handpicked from Milam & Greene's growing collection. The team only bottles whiskeys that meet the distillery's criteria. The Straight Bourbon is then bottled from a single cask that holds 53 gallons (about 200 litres). Each cask yields about 280 bottles and the cask number, alcohol content in volume percent and alcohol content in American proof are handwritten on each label.

The Garrison Brothers have set themselves the difficult goal of distilling and maturing whiskey in Texas. This is not so easy, as it sometimes gets so hot there in the summer that normal barrels can no longer withstand the environmental influences. So the team had barrels made from extra thick staves and was able to bring the first legal Texas Bourbon onto the market. The Balmorhea spent four years in a fresh white oak barrel before it was transferred to a second fresh white oak barrel and stored for another year.

The Legent was created in collaboration between Fred Noe, Master Distiller at Jim Beam and Shinji Fukuyo, Chief Blender at Suntory. The Kentucky Straight Bourbon matures for around eight years in freshly charred white oak barrels in Kentucky and is then partly matured in red wine, sherry and ex-yamazaki barrels. The special edition is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey produced by Fred Noe in Kentucky from American grain. The whisky then travelled across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, where it was matured and recombined at the Suntory Yamazaki distillery, the birthplace of Japanese whisky, on the outskirts of Kyoto. Maturation took place in carefully selected French oak wine casks, Spanish oak sherry casks and sherry casks previously used for Yamazaki single malt Japanese whisky.

Mark Twain is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon that was distilled at the Heavens Hill Distillery and bottled at Mark Twain Distilling Co. The bourbon has an alcohol strength of 40%.