A new batch of Rare?

Rarely Rare

 

The age statement on a bottle of whiskey refers to the youngest whiskey in that bottle. My bottle of WL Weller 12 year is a blend of bourbons of different ages (most likely) but the youngest bourbon is 12 years old. Aging whiskey isn't like baking a pie -- you don't necessarily put whiskey in a barrel and, precisely 12 years later, have an aged whiskey ready to bottle. Maybe it needs more time. Maybe you give it more time but it doesn't react like you planned and instead of letting it age longer, you blend it in within something younger. Only the distillery could say for certain. But, point being, just because a distillery has whiskey that's 45 years old, it doesn't mean that they will bottle it or sell it.

 

They should change the title of the new batch to Bourbon County Uncommon.

 

I'll hold out for Bourbon County Mythic Rare

 

Thus truly making craft beer Pokemon cards for grown ups?

Edit: kodt sneaks in with the Magic: The Gathering reference...

 

BA should have a sticky note explaining Bourbon...

 

If this is $100 I won't be surprised.

 

No bourbon is aged for 45 years. The reason is, as immobilize pointed out, by law bourbon has to use new, charred oak barrels. The new barrels would impart too much wood to the whiskey making it undrinkable. I'm sure some of the older distilleries have a barrel that has been aging bourbon for that long, just as a experimental thing, but I bet it tastes awful.

Also, keep in mind that the date on the barrel doesn't exactly tell you how long the barrel held whiskey, on account of not knowing when the barrel was dumped. That 79 barrel could have been emptied for quite a while. I'm curious as to how the length of time between the barrel being emptied of whiskey and being filled with beer effects the final product, due to evaporation & the wood drying out.

I'm also not sure the age of the bourbon has that much to do with the final beer that comes out of the barrels. I have no evidence to support this, but I bet if you took barrels that have held bourbon for at least, say, 8-10 years and put the same base beer into them and also barrels that have held bourbon for 23-25 years, you'd get almost the same end result.

The thing that makes Rare different from regular BCBS is the length of time the BEER is in the barrels, not the whiskey. And yet I wait for the inevitable threads saying the first batch of Rare is far superior to the second, due to the Van Winkle barrels being superior to whatever bourbon came out of these barrels, likely Parker's Heritage or Elijah Craig.

 

ISO
ten char

 

Damn you IN-BEV!!!
Oh wait...

 

Love it when people have "friends" at the brewery.

 

I just like having friends in general. Brewery friends are a bonus.

 

You, me, and everybody else on this site would wait in line for several hours to pay $100 for this.

 

35 year old heaven hill, aging 3 years

 

False. I have had enough Bourbon County to know that I don't NEED this.

 

Gimme some beer aged in the 2nd Release Parkers, the 28 Year old BBN. Daaaamn son.

 

Bourbon County Brand Black Gold Stout?

 

Rare 2.0 - The Legend of Bourbon County

 

Rare 2: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Boogaloo

 

Rare 2: Judgement Day. So many beer nerds will perish during this release.