
BARREL SELECTION (RICKHOUSE C)
Bottled: October 2023
Floor 7: 0%
Floor 6: 0%
Floor 5: 4%
Floor 4: 77%
Floor 3: 13%
Floor 2: 4%
Floor 1: 2%
Rickhouse Proof:
60.05% ALC./VOL. | 120.1 (PROOF)
Kyle’s Notes:
Just like the August Ben Holladay, the plan with this batch was to release the Rickhouse Proof bourbon out into the market. Keeping that in mind, I had no desire to do another single floor release like what we did in August. Rather, the plan was to again keep a very balanced bourbon that had a nice mix throughout the rickhouse.
The one interesting challenge with this batch was that I was trying to allocate all of the remaining barrels for the Soft Red Wheat Spring 2017 distillation season. This was still another large batch for us – a total of 181 barrels were dumped to produce both the BiB and Rickhouse with a barrel loss of 30.0% during aging. The Rickhouse Proof version is 120.1 proof for this bottling.
A total of 17 different ricks were used from floors 1-5 with a weighted average of 3.77. Because of the various ricks used, a total of 32 distilling days were used in the batch from the Spring 2017 distilling season.