I just cannot be trusted on my own. Not three hours after my wife left to care for her mother during cataract surgery, I was trying to bandage my own finger after needing to do a little minor surgery of my own. While trying to pick up something from the kitchen counter, I somehow got a fingerful of wood shoved under the nail on my right forefinger. Getting the wood out involved prying on my fingernail and cutting it way too far down until I could grab it with tweezers. Needless to say, it is hard to type with a bandaged and sore finger. Luckily for me, the company website has a lot of things to say about what makes their Bottled in Bond bourbon interesting. So I hope you’ll forgive me if I let them do the talking tonight.
50% ABV / 100 Proof
64% Corn
21% Malted Barley
15% Abruzzi Heritage Rye
Open fermentation in wooden tanks with both house-cultured and indigenous yeast strains. Pot distilled and unfiltered.
Aged five years in new American white oak charred barrels on earthen floors in the distillery's unheated dunnage-style bonded warehouse.
First release: 2020
Availability: Year-round
Available bottle size: 750ml
Leopold Bros. Bottled in Bond Bourbon
Purchase Info: $62.99 for a 750 mL bottle, Total Wine, Burnsville, MN
Price per Drink (50 mL): $4.20
Details: 5 years old. 50% ABV. DSP-CO-15014. Mash bill: 64% corn, 21% malted barley, 15% rye. Uses both cultured and indigenous wild yeasts in fermentation.
Nose: Grain forward with nutty Wheaties cereal notes along with dried grass and a faint note of wintergreen.
Mouth: Spicy with ginger and cinnamon. Wheaties cereal and wintergreen.
Finish: Medium length and heat. Very nutty finish. More of those Wheaties cereal notes with some cinnamon.
Thoughts: This is a very nutty bourbon. I'm guessing that is from the high quantity of malted barley. I like this. My wife is less enthusiastic but doesn't hate it. This is certainly not your stereotypical bourbon and that's probably the point.
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