- Proof
- 117.3
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- BourbonKentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
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“High-rye bourbon from a batch of five-to-seven-year barrels, with cinnamon, mint and dried cherry.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- Dark baking spice and ripe stone fruit, with canned peach, caramelized sugar, caramel that borders on toffee, vanilla, seasoned oak and a hint of mint
- palate
- Vibrant pie spice that builds to red pepper and clove, with candy apple, peppermint, orange zest, spiced honey, caramel and vanilla
- finish
- Long and lingering; wintergreen, cinnamon candy and chewy caramel, with honey, allspice and a little oak
Mash bill
- Kentucky-grown corn70%
- Rye21%
- Malted barley9%
70% Kentucky-grown corn, 21% rye, 9% malted barley. Twenty-one percent is a high rye share for a bourbon, and it gives the baking spice and mint that run through the whiskey.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
- Best served
- neat or over a single large cube
Why it's craft
Green River selects barrels that have aged five to seven years in its century-old Owensboro warehouses and bottles them together at 117.3 proof in the first batch. The recipe is the same as its 90-proof bourbon, so the difference in the glass is strength and barrel selection, not grain. The distillery was licensed in 1885, and Bardstown Bourbon Co. has owned it since 2022.
Green River Distilling Co.
Corporate-owned · Est. 1885 · Tours