Barrell Craft Spirits Rolls Out The Blended Barrell Bourbon
Kentucky blending house Barrell Craft Spirits has rolled out the Barrell Bourbon blends – a pair of blended bourbons with different cask finishes – for their new Barrell Bourbon Cask Finish series which will feature two blends each year.
Barrell Craft Spirits Amburana Bourbon is a blend of select Indiana and Kentucky-made bourbons with a quartet of Indiana bourbons aged for five, six, seven, and 10 years combined with a single Kentucky bourbon aged for five years, a mash bill of 75% corn, 21% rye, and 4% malted barley, finished for one-to-two months in Amburana casks, bottled at 58.21% alcohol by volume [116.42 proof] and is said to offer notes of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and vanilla.
Barrell Craft Spirits Tale of Two Islands blends a trio of Indiana bourbons [aged for five, six, and nine years, respectively] with a duo of Maryland bourbons aged five and six years, has a mash bill of 73% corn, 23% rye, and 4% malted barley, finished in rum casks for four to six months, bottled at 59.11% alcohol by volume [118.22 proof] and is said to offer notes of coconut and doughnut.
Both Barrell Craft Spirits Cask Finish Series blended bourbons are being made available for $90 per bottle via the official BCS website [barrelbourbon.com].