New Whisky Releases From Outdated Forester, Dewar’s, Woodford, and Extra

It’s Father’s Day weekend, and earlier within the week we posted a chunk that coated a variety of Father’s Day present selections to swimsuit almost each dad. We comply with right here with an array of latest whiskeys, lots of which is also within the working—notably a just-released Father’s Day Bourbon Assortment from Woodford Reserve. Amongst different noteworthy new objects, Outdated Forester is providing a brand new batch of its President’s Selection single barrel bourbon, whereas Blue Run is again with Flight Sequence II, that includes six micro-batch whiskeys. Texas whiskey maker Nonetheless Austin has a summer time launch of its Bottled in Bond pink corn, and the Penelope Cooper Sequence has a brand new launch of its bourbon completed in grenache rosé wine casks from the Southern Rhône.

For scotch lovers, the U.S. Open golf championship is in full swing this weekend, and Dewar’s is out with this 12 months’s launch of its 19 12 months previous Champion’s Version. It’s all the time among the best bargains in whisky and never a foul present alternative in any respect for the golf-loving dad.

Woodford Reserve Restricted Version Father’s Day Bourbon Assortment

ABV: 45.2%
SRP: $80/1 liter
Availability: On the distillery; choose batches can be found on-line

In celebration of Father’s Day, Woodford Reserve grasp distiller Elizabeth McCall crafted a sequence of seven bourbons with assist from her dad, Tim O’Neill.

Every batch was blended from two barrels with a special profile in thoughts, and the distillery claims all of them style completely different. The primary is claimed to style like candy tobacco, baking spice, and darkish fruits. The second batch can be spicy, with graham crackers, cinnamon, and honeysuckle alongside a floral end. Batch 3 is far darker, with notes of mocha and flavors of roasted espresso and nutmeg. The fourth one is far sweeter, harking back to marshmallows, brown sugar, overripe bananas, and candied fruits. Batch No. 5 performs extra into the citrus and woody facet, with tangerine, cooked peaches, cinnamon, cedar wooden, mint, and charred oak.

In case you’re searching for a last-minute Father’s Day present, there could also be some further problem in buying one (or extra) of those bourbons. Whereas all seven can be found on the distillery, solely Batches 1–5 can be found for buy on-line. Batches 6 and seven are each unique to the distillery. Woodford Reserve’s delivery solely covers Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Washington, D.C.

Outdated Forester President’s Selection Single Barrel Bourbon (2024)

ABV: 52.5%–60%
SRP: $225
Availability: On the distillery and on-line

Outdated Forester has launched a brand new batch of its coveted President’s Selection single barrel bourbon. This 12 months’s model consists of barrels that vary from 7–12 years previous, every of that are bottled at barrel power between 52.5% and 60% ABV. Whereas the precise dimension of the discharge is undisclosed, Outdated Forester says that that is the most important President’s Selection batch to date—encompassing extra barrels than any of the earlier releases.

President’s Selection acquired its begin again in 1964 when Brown-Forman president George Garvin Brown II chosen particular barrels to be bottled and bought as single barrel bourbon. The expression would fall dormant simply eight years after that, earlier than being introduced again in 2018 to have fun the opening of Outdated Forester’s downtown Louisville distillery. That batch, which featured liquid round 8 years previous and price $90, scored 91 factors with our tasting panel.

Dewar’s 19 12 months previous Blended Scotch – The Champion’s Version (2024 Launch)

ABV: 43%
SRP: $80
Availability: reservebar.com and dewars.com

With the 124^th U.S. Open underway on the Pinehurst Nation Membership in North Carolina, Dewar’s has unveiled this 12 months’s Champion’s Version scotch whisky. It’s all the time aged for 19 years as a nod to the 19^th gap, however for this 12 months’s launch, Dewar’s grasp blender Stephanie Macleod double aged the mix in first-fill rye casks. Dewar’s has stored the value of this annual launch unchanged for the previous 4 years at $80—not dangerous in any respect for a 19 12 months previous scotch.

Because the official whisky of the U.S. Open, the Dewar’s partnership started with a bourbon cask end in 2021 (rated 92 factors), adopted by a 91-point mix in 2022 completed in bourbon, new American oak, and rye barrels. Final 12 months’s 92-point whisky was completed in pink wine casks from Napa Valley. Macleod used further maturation in rye casks most not too long ago on the Dewar’s Double Double 21 12 months previous Rye Cask End, which was launched as an NFT on blockbar.com in 2022.

Blue Run Flight Sequence II Bourbon

ABV: Varies
SRP: $120
Availability: Restricted

Kentucky-based Blue Run debuted its first Flight Sequence in 2022; like that inaugural version, Flight Sequence II options six micro-batch whiskeys that spotlight whiskey director Shaylyn Gammon’s mixing abilities. Gammon used 3 to 4 barrels of Blue Run’s high-rye bourbon for every whiskey on this flight; as with different Blue Run whiskeys, these had been contract-distilled at Fort & Key, in addition to Bardstown Bourbon Co. and an unnamed distillery. The whiskeys aged in #4 alligator char barrels.

The six whiskeys in Flight Sequence II are:

• Biscayne Breeze—blended from 3 barrels, bottled at 57.05% ABV (690 bottles out there)
• Joshua Tree Dawn—blended from 3 barrels, bottled at barrel proof of 58.5% ABV (672 bottles out there)
• Miami Sundown—blended from 4 barrels, bottled at 57.5% ABV (900 bottles out there)
• Santa Monica Pier—blended from 4 barrels, bottled at 57.55% ABV (672 bottles out there)
• Tahoe Powder—blended from 3 barrels, bottled at barrel proof of 58% ABV (636 bottles out there)
• Yosemite Pine—blended from 3 barrels, bottled at barrel proof of 58.3% ABV (636 bottles out there)

Whereas Blue Run’s whiskeys are at the moment all contract-distilled, that’s set to vary sooner or later, with the development of a new distilling advanced in Georgetown, Kentucky underway. Even after the brand new distillery is on stream, Blue Run’s releases are more likely to stay small and micro-batch for a while. Blue Run is owned by Coors Spirits Co., which acquired it final 12 months.

Penelope Cooper Sequence Rosé Cask Completed Bourbon (Batch 8)

ABV: 47%
SRP: $50
Availability: Restricted

MGP-owned whiskey label Penelope chimes on this week with a brand new batch of its Rosé Cask Completed bourbon. It makes use of a four-grain bourbon base (74% corn, 16% wheat, 7% rye, and three% malted barley) which undergoes a 4-month end in grenache rosé casks sourced from the Southern Rhône area of France.

Rosé Cask Completed has a reasonably attention-grabbing place in Penelope’s whiskey portfolio. The preliminary batch, which arrived in October 2020, laid the groundwork for Penelope’s Cooper Sequence—the label’s residence for experimental cask finishes, which incorporates high-scoring expressions like Rio and Tokaji Cask Completed. Rosé Cask has since been adopted into the Cooper Sequence household, and up to date batches have proven enchancment over the unique. Final 12 months’s batch scored 89 factors.

291 Colorado Whiskey Good Man Barrel Proof 4 Grain Rye Whiskey

ABV: 61.4%
SRP: $150
Availability: Restricted; out there on-line

Distillery 291’s latest expression is a four-grain rye whiskey that was bottled at barrel proof. Because the identify implies, this whiskey is supposed to be a counterpart to 291’s Unhealthy Man four-grain bourbon. Good Man’s mashbill is a riff on the Unhealthy Man recipe, with the corn and rye percentages flipped. Like most of the distillery’s different releases, Good Man was completed utilizing aspen wooden staves.

On paper, the idea of a wheated rye is a considerably curious one. A lot of the strangeness comes down on the contrary taste profiles of the 2 grains. Although wheat actually has functions in four-grain bourbons and wheat whiskeys, it’s most often present in wheated bourbons—the place it’s used as an alternative to rye, performing as a sweeter and softer different to rye’s trademark spiciness. Because of this, wheated ryes and four-grain ryes are a rarity.

With that being mentioned, 291 Distillery isn’t the one whiskey maker that has performed round with this arcane type. Wisconsin-based J. Henry & Sons affords a four-grain rye whiskey made utilizing Spooner rye, winter wheat, heirloom pink corn, and malted barley. Florida’s Kozuba & Sons Distillery affords two high-wheat rye whiskeys, each of which have 65% rye and 35% wheat mashbills.

TX Whiskey Unaged White Canine

ABV: 60%
SRP: $40
Availability: Restricted; 1,400 375 ml bottles

Annually, TX Whiskey provides a brand new expression to its Experimental Sequence. Prior to now, such releases have included variously completed bourbons (amongst them one completed in rum and cognac barrels, and one completed in cabernet barrels), in addition to rye whiskeys (the TX steady highlights bourbons and blended whiskeys, making rye an outlier).

Now, the distillery’s ninth Experimental Sequence whiskey is right here, and it’s a bit off the crushed path in comparison with its common fare. TX Unaged White Canine is produced from Texas-sourced corn, wheat, and malted barley, and sees no barrel maturation—the whiskey’s taste comes solely from the grains, yeast, fermentation, and distillation.

All white canine whiskeys, which additionally go underneath the identify of white lightning, white whiskey, and lightweight whiskey, are produced from unaged distillate. This style obtained some consideration a bit greater than a decade in the past when Buffalo Hint White Canine garnered short-lived reward for its 2012 launch. However the mini-craze died away rapidly in favor of aged expressions because the whiskey growth moved into excessive gear.

In celebration of the launch, TX is internet hosting a celebration at its Whiskey Ranch in Forth Price, Texas on June 14, with VIP entry beginning at 5 p.m.; VIP ticket holders ($50) may have a chance to fulfill with the whiskey maker, head distiller Evan Brewer, in addition to have their bottle(s) signed and go on a tour of the distillery. Basic admission ($10) will start at 6 p.m., at which level company can get pleasure from reside music and meals vehicles.

Samuel Maverick Personal Reserve Bottled In Bond Bourbon

ABV: 50%
SRP: $80
Availability: Maverick Distilling and maverickdistilling.com

Two barrels of Maverick Distilling’s Personal Reserve bourbon had been chosen for this restricted launch as a bottled in bond expression. Like Personal Reserve, the bottled in bond iteration is made utilizing Texas-grown corn, rye, and barley, distilled on a copper hybrid nonetheless, and aged for no less than 4 years. Commonplace Personal Reserve has an ABV of 45%, whereas its Bottled in Bond is proofed to 50%, as required for the designation.

Maverick Distilling was based by a descendant of Samuel Maverick, a Texas land baron, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Texas Structure. The distillery, positioned steps from the Alamo, was the previous residence of Lockwood Nationwide Financial institution (c. 1918). The financial institution’s underground vaults, positioned beneath the distillery, are the place this whiskey was aged.

Buckner’s 17 12 months previous Single Barrel Bourbon

ABV: Varies
SRP: $400
Availability: Distillery unique beginning June fifteenth

Buckner’s is a sequence of age-stated single barrel expressions launched by Augusta Distillery. The most recent, a 17 12 months previous, is the oldest one but—following expressions aged 10, 13, and 15 years. The liquid is sourced from an undisclosed distillery in Kentucky.

Augusta Distillery was based in 2018 and sits on the banks of the Ohio River within the small city of Augusta, Kentucky. The distillery is housed in a transformed manufacturing unit constructing from the late 1800s and isn’t but absolutely operational. Augusta Distillery is predicted to have an annual capability of 14,000 barrels and can use two 14-inch copper column stills. Within the meantime, Augusta is sourcing aged liquid from elsewhere within the state. Behind the wheel is grasp distiller Alex Fort, who joined the group after an almost decade-long stint with Tennessee’s Outdated Dominick Distillery.

Augusta is ready to carry a launch occasion for Buckner’s 17 on June 14th, a day forward of the official launch date. Attendees may have the chance to tour the distillery and style your entire Buckner’s lineup. Friends will even obtain a commemorative bottle of Buckner’s 17 and a glass. Tickets price $699 and will be bought on the distillery web site.

Nonetheless Austin 5 12 months previous Bottled in Bond Crimson Corn Bourbon (Summer time 2024 Launch)

ABV: 50%
SRP: $85
Availability: Restricted; out there on the distillery, on-line, and at choose retailers.

Texas-based Nonetheless Austin has simply introduced a follow-up batch for its Bottled in Bond Crimson Corn bourbon, which is ready to roll out on the finish of the month. Its mashbill consists of two corn varieties and a excessive share of rye: 36% pink corn, 34% white corn, 25% rye, and 5% malted barley. This 12 months’s model was aged for five years, a 12 months older than the earlier batch.

Final 12 months Nonetheless Austin introduced the beginning of a brand new sequence of bonded whiskeys, every meant to symbolize the season it was launched. The primary whiskey to hit the shores was the summery Bottled in Bond Crimson Corn—the brand new whiskey’s predecessor—and it was subsequently joined by a high-rye bourbon in fall, a blue corn bourbon as a winter launch, and eventually a rye whiskey for spring.

That preliminary run got here with the promise of yearly additions to the sequence. With this launch Nonetheless Austin is making good on that pledge, and that’s actually welcome information contemplating how effectively final 12 months’s batches have carried out. 2023’s entries within the bonded sequence notched among the highest scores we’ve awarded to the distillery to date: Three separate expressions (Crimson Corn, Blue Corn, and Rye) all scored 92 factors, whereas Excessive Rye earned an 89-point ranking.

Traverse Metropolis The Authentic Outdated Common Ready Cocktail

ABV: 37%
SRP: $30/375ml
Availability: Obtainable in 32 states and on-line

Traverse Metropolis Cherry Outdated Common Ready Cocktail

ABV: 27%
SRP: $20/375ml
Availability: Obtainable in 32 states and on-line

Michigan’s Traverse Metropolis Whiskey Co. is introducing two new RTD Outdated Common cocktails to its core lineup. The Authentic is made utilizing 6 12 months previous bourbon, whereas Cherry makes use of Traverse Metropolis’s American Cherry Version cherry-flavored whiskey as a base. Each are made utilizing easy syrup, bitters, and citrus, and Traverse Metropolis recommends consuming them chilled.

Traverse Metropolis’s whiskey choices are dominated by flavored whiskeys, bourbon, and rye. The record additionally consists of some wine cask completed expressions, and a few barrel proof bottlings as effectively. Alongside these, it additionally makes canned Highballs out there in lemonade, cherry, and ginger ale flavors. It additionally affords an experimental gin known as Verse, which is distilled from northern botanicals and rested in bourbon barrels.